Get on the road to the South of Spain

A Rural Coliving Safari is an epic trip through nomad-friendly villages in rural Spain. We are consciously scouting and curating villages where you can live and work while enjoying good life in nature. Remote and not so remote rural settlements with rural coworking spaces, startup incubators, typical village houses, eco villages, alternative communities, wild beaches, amazing and affordable restaurants and tons of folklore. This time most part of the safari will happen on a road trip by the Esast coast to the South of Spain from Barcelona (Nov 11 - Dec2).

On the way we will be able to work remotely inside a caravan, connect with local startups, take part in workshops on Growth Hacking, 360º self-sustainable businesses, volunteer in ecovillages and colive with locals.

How does a Rural Coliving Safari looks like?

What you will find?

A Rural Coliving Safari is a unique opportunity for a few to re-connect with yourself, with like-minded and with nature in unique outsider environments. Immerse yourself in the unseen rural Spain and get some fresh inspiration from disruptive rural and local projects.

Along the way, we will stop and explore astonishing fisherman villages and wild beaches, visit wild parks, learn about sustainable living from alternative communities and join a broad range of workshops and additional activities. And you know what? Most of them will be for free!

Get ready for...

STAGE 1

 "Solo" rural workation week in an abandoned village      

- Just our founders & team -

SOLANELL, ALT URGELL, CATALONIA (OCT 16-23) 

This will be the first of a series of monthly rural workation weeks in villages that our founder and team will realize. We will expend one week in the magnetic abandoned village being restored of Solanell, what we could name as the rural headquarters of Pandorahub. The last inhabitant of Solanell abandoned the village in 1972. More than 50 years later, an architect from Tarragona decided to make the reconstruction of Solanell his life's work. Solanell is strategically located on the Cathar Catalan route and managed by a coop. Most of the buildings in the village are collapsed but the coop is applying an innovative model of property based on the use vs the speculation that enables entering small investors. The have already rebuilt a main base camp and a very cozy youth hostel. During this week we will be volunteering in strategic task for the reactivation of the village and having working session with other strategic partners such as the landscape designers and high value abandoned spaces experts of Simarpa.

STAGE 2

Rural immersion with masons, artists, entrepreneurs, spiritists 

MOLINOS, TERUEL (OCTOBER 29 - NOVEMBER 4)

- Just our founders & collaborators -

During the Rural Coliving Summer Safari we visited Molinos during 2 separate days and we were literally charmed by its magic. So was the charm that we will come back for a full week after being invited with our team and friends to the wedding of the ex-major in Molinos, a cultural anthropologist that ruled the village during 16 years after his father and grand father. This village in the midst of the mounts of Teruel is a cultural epicentre of the Maestrazo Region, attracting international artists, entrepreneurs, Political scientists, spiritists, painters and other singular characters that were also mesmerized by this special village. During our stay in Molinos we will also spend few retirement days in silence in the Q Project Retreat managed by Neus, a recognized Catalan painter that abandoned Barcelona for a radical return to the rural life. And will visit our friends of Apadrina un Olivo in Oliete and the nearly finished works with the new olive oil mill. 

STAGE 3

Finding Aldea & Village Builders village retreat and scouting trip

 SOLANELL AND OTHER ABANDONED VILLAGES IN ALT URGELL (NOV 5- 7)

- Just our founders & collaborators -

We will welcome our friends of Finding Aldea and Village Builders to our strategic abandoned village of Solanell for exploring their potential involvement in the rebuilding of this mainly collapsed village. We will hike around, relax, colive and learn from this rural settlement hidden between mountains where there are life track records that go back to the Prehistoric Era.

The road trip starts here

During 21 days (Oct 16 - Dec 2) we will drive along the East Coast of Peninsula Iberica stopping in strategical rural settlements on the way. The road trip will involve from Stages 4 (Masia Castelló in Vandellós) to Stage 10 (Crearium in Monzón) of the safari. 

We are not travelling alone

Every day we are more and more outsider initiatives willing to put more nature in our and others lives. So is for our friends in o and Eco Tech Nomads that had also planned a road trip in rural areas to the South of Spain and decided to join us. It was Rural Coliving Safari at first sight :D!

The first 2 safariers to join will have the choice of travelling by a Kantoor Van all the way long!

Rent your spot travelling in the van for just 10€ p./ Day p./ Person - Much cheaper and funnier then renting a car!

STAGE 4

Informal Rural Repopulation Encounter in revived abandoned village

(MASIA CASTELLO, TARRAGONA, NOV 12-14)

Masia Castelló is a small village that was abandoned since 20 years ago, when an Association decided to rebuild it and revive it with the support of the local government. Nowadays Castelló is nearly fully rebuilt and the Association is hosting cultural events every weekend year long. During our stay we will gather with other rural activists such as Saül founder at Reviure Solanell, Thomas connector at Ouishare Berlin, Matias founder at Repoblem and Xavi and the team at Masia Castelloand in order to explore the possibility to organize a rural repopulation conference on Spring 2017.

STAGE 5

Coliving with nomads in the Marina Coast

(SUN AND CO, JÁVEA, ALICANTE, NOV 16 - 19)

This will be the longest stage, stopping in one of our favourite coliving Spaces in Spain in the town of Jávea. We will expend the time with our friends Jon and Edu and their nomad guests, hike to the surroundings, eat typical paella, cook all together, do informal skill sharing sessions, workshops and talks. We also plan to interview an archeologist that will explain us the history of this stunning rural settlement that also the Iberians inhabited.

During November 18th we will work from La Nau, a coworking space in the village nearby (Pedreguer), the office for more than 20 rural coworkers and for a startup incubator supporting local startups. November 18th in Lola Giardino (Nona Bruna) and our founder Diana Moret will facilitate a free Growth Hacking workshop on how to make your business grow without having a budget..

Alchemists, Masons, Magicians, Anarchists, Spiritists are living in villages. We look for them and we interview them. Let their magic guide you. 

STAGE 6

Experience community living in a 30 year old Eco Tech Village

(SUNSEED, LOS MOLINOS DEL RÍO AGUAS, ALMERÍA, Nov 19-22)

On the way to Tarifa we will colive during 3 days with the community living in the Eco Tech village of Sunseed, located in the beautiful off-grid ecovillage of Los Molinos del Río Aguas in the mountain range of rural Almería. Sunseed is a hands-on practical centre for low-impact living and environmental education in Andalusia. Their community works and learns together to develop, demonstrate, research and communicate alternative ways of living more sustainably. During our stay in Sunseed we will visit other ecovillages nearby such as El Cortijo de Al Hamman, do discovery hikes is the stunning natural surroundings and volunteer in the needed tasks.  Workshops and talks on the Challenges & Opportunities of Life & Work in remote rural locations around the globe, learning how to simplify our lives and low impact living might also happen place during our stay.

STAGE 7

Coliving in a Spanish epicentre for the Global Ecovillage Network

MOLINO DEL GUADALMESÍ (TARIFA, Nov 22-27)

We will finally have the chance to visit Johnny, an holistic human-business master responsible for the European Eco Village Network in Spain, in the ecovillage of Molinos located in the midst of the Natural Parks of Alcorconales and Estrecho (12km from Tarifa). The place is a living vergel, built using bio-building techniques and permaculture, water streams flows everywhere and organic food is grown (even avocados naturally grow in Molino's land!). Johnny is also founder at Startoco and mentor member of the European incubator for sustainable startups based on the dimensions of the Global Ecovillage Network. He will facilitate a workshop on How to make a business 360º sustainable under an holistic perspective, having into account all stakeholders and both the human, environmental and economical sustainability. We will spend 3 inspirational days in a visit mode, learning from the Molino community, volunteering in punctual tasks, discovering other rural alternative settlements nearby, having informal talks and workshops on Visual Thinking, Dynamic Governance, Quantum Computers and The Singularity, Dragon Dreaming or Conscious Economy. We will also make some space for connecting with the digital nomad community in Taifa, mainly hosted by Johannes (Founder at the Nomad Cruise). We might even have the chance to practice kite surf. 

STAGE 8

Supporting local entrepreneurs and fixing rural population since 15 years ago

ALMA NATURA, ARROYOMOLINOS DE LEÓN, HUELVA (NOV 27-30)

Alma Natura is a source of inspiration for any rural activist. They visionary enough to have been fixing population in rural areas since 15 years ago and to have became the very first B-Corporation in Spain. This social innovation rural hub was founded by a group of family and friends that decided to come back to their home village right after finishing their studies in the city University. A great success history on how to be self-sustainable in a rural area creating a local positive impact. Their main activity is “digitalizing” elderlies in villages and giving support to local entrepreneurs so that they can really make a living in the village. They have now become an strategic partner for big corporations and local governments. During our stay in the village of Arroyomolinos de León we will learn from their approach, explore synergies and potential common initiatives by Alma Natura & Pandorahub, interact with local startups such as Tomates Felices (Happy Tomatoes) and discovering natural and historical settlements around.

STAGE 9

Visiting the rural mecca of the social economy in Extremadura

LA NAVE NODRIZA, VILANUEVA DE LA VERA (NOV 30 - DEC 1)

On the way back to Barcelona, we will spend 1 night and 1 day with the crew at La Nave Nodriza, a rural coworking multi space near Cáceres. Founded 1 year ago, they restored an abandoned warehouse founded by a crowdfunding campaign. There are coworkers who are artists, developers, T-shirt brands, beauty products. The village seems to have a special attraction for singular international characters involved in agro-ecology, sufism and spirituality from big cities around such as Madrid, Cáceres and Badajoz. La Nave is part of Arrejuntandonos (Getting Together), a local network of initiatives supporting the social economy in Extremadura Region. On the way to Villanueva from Arroyomolinos, we will also visit another project part of Arrejuntandonos, La Fábrika de Toda La Vida (An Usual Factory), a super pioneer rural multi space initiated 6 years ago by a group of young multidisciplinary activists who restored an abandoned factory by self-buidling also funded vía crowdfunding.

STAGE 10

Visiting one of the pioneer rural coworking spaces in Spain

CREARIUM, MONZÓN, HUESCA (DEC 1-2)

We are very excited to finish the road trip of the Autumn Safari in Monzón, a small town in Huesca. Crearium is an innovative coworking and multidisciplinary space with a clear focus on the maker community and the childhood (they are part of Pekefriendly and Mammaproof. It was founded by an entrepreneur who was born in the village and after travelling around the world, decided to start something meaningful for her hometown. We will spend the last night in this pioneer rural coworking and multi space founded 5 years ago where courses IoT and Arduino, Asian cooking workshops, wine tastery, Crearium Kids, Scratch and Arduino in family, Mini Makers, plastic arts exhibitions happen every month. We are very excited to finish our road trip in one of the very first rural coworking spaces in Spain.

The road trip finishes here - Back to Barcelona

on DECEMBER 2

Why Joining the Rural Coliving Safari?

How does it work?

Pretty simple,  you can join the full road trip with us or simply pop up by days into an specific moment and place. But if you really want to make the most out of this, get ready for an old school nomad traveller journey!

A long list of perks...

Who's already tried rural coliving?

A few of the startups in our Tribe:

 Who is this for?

Nothing is born mainstream. We're starting small, and bit by bit we'll expand to everybody. Now we are doing this specially for...

Startup founder

Managing your own business and curious for start doing it in a remote mode

Maker

Hardware problem solver willing to create a positive and permanent impact in deserted villages

Digital Nomad

Location independent professional with the freedom to work from anywhere in the world

Our keen collaborators

Every season and every safari, we are expanding our rural coliving platform. We're building a network of nomads communities, organisations, NGO, land and housing experts 

Are you ready for a rural fairy tale journey?

One thing we can tell your for sure, this experience won't let you indifferent.

We've already set the Safari, found the locations and rallied the tribe. So you just need to choose your plan package. We have designated 3 different ways of joining the Safari (for stays of min. 2 days):

VAT / IVA, accommodation, meals, transportation and other travel expenses, drinks, medical, insurance, daily facilitation or guidance, extra optional activities that have a cost such as rentals, adventure sports, etc. (anyone will be free to join or not) not included in any of the fees