isla mechuque

Isla Mechuque is off the northeast coast of Chiloe island and it is like a microcosm of Chiloe. Everything I was hoping to find during my week on the big island was all there on the little one. I got to see how curanto is made, visit a little cemetery by the sea, walk through the silent town (the whole island only has 5 motor vehicles and 500 inhabitants), watch a significant portion of the island´s population depart on the afternoon boats to the main island, and buy a wool knit cat from a local artisan.