Vilcabamba, VilcabambaTV.com, Vilcabamba news website

After arriving in Vilcabamba in 2008 via Costa Rica, Miami and Paris, former television journalist Nathalie Duffau saw an opportunity to use her background in the service of the community. Shortly thereafter, she formed Vilcabamba TV, launched a website, and began shooting, hosting, and editing local news pieces that now number over 350. The stories have been viewed over 200,000 times and her online resource is finding a growing audience in Vilcabamba, other parts of Ecuador, and around the world.

Included in Vilcabamba TV’s news archives are stories on a local shoeshine boy who Nathalie took under her wing and raised money for in order to help him eat better and go to school and Nathalie’s footage of a UFO that appeared over a mountain that she shot from a window in her home. Other subjects include local events, interviews with Vilcabamba’s local characters, local sights, love stories, issues and strange stuff like her UFO story.

Nathalie has found her Shangra La and looks forward to continuing to let the world know about Vilcabamba’s beauty, challenges and local color. To tune in, visit www.vilcabambatv.com