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  <description><![CDATA[Patch SDK: four private mountain cabins in Campos do Jordao, Sao Paulo. Araucaria forest, wood-burning fireplaces, direct booking. From R$ 480/night.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[How to Choose Between the Four Cabins at Patch SDK]]></title>
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    <description><![CDATA[There is a particular kind of paralysis that arrives when a trip feels important — when the group chat has finally aligned on dates, when the weeks have been relentless, and the only thing left to settle is which cabin. At Patch SDK, nestled in the highland plateau near the Serra Gaúcha, that question is not a small one. Each of the four cabins — Cedro, Araucaria, Pedra, and Pinheiro — was built to a different logic, faces a different direction, and rewards a different kind of guest. Getting the match right is the first good decision of a trip. This guide exists to make it easier.]]></description>
    <pubDate>2025-06-17</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[The Pedra do Bau Trail: What to Expect If You Are Staying in Campos do Jordao]]></title>
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    <description><![CDATA[There is a rock face above the Serra da Mantiqueira that, from the right window of the right cabin on a clear morning, looks like the prow of a ship run aground in the clouds. Pedra do Baú is the name, and for anyone staying in Campos do Jordão it sits at the edge of every clear-day conversation — someone always knows someone who has done it, or means to. The circuit that loops beneath and around it is not the most technically demanding trail in the state of São Paulo, but it is, by some margin, the most atmosphere-charged: granite towers, Atlantic Forest understory, a summit ridge that earns its height. What follows is an honest account of the route as walked in early autumn, starting from the Abernésia district, with notes on what the trail actually asks of a person and what that person ought to carry.]]></description>
    <pubDate>2026-05-08</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[Wood-Burning Fireplaces in Mountain Cabins: How to Use Them Properly]]></title>
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    <description><![CDATA[There is a particular moment in the early evening at altitude, sometime around half past five in late autumn, when the temperature drops fast and the pine trees outside the window go from gold to black in the space of ten minutes. The cabin is warm — for now — and the cast-iron lareira in the corner waits. Most guests pause in front of it with a log in one hand and a vague memory of a childhood fireplace in the other. This guide is for that moment: specific, unhurried, and written for anyone who has never coaxed a proper fire from a cold hearth. Get it right and the rest of the night arranges itself around the warmth.]]></description>
    <pubDate>2025-05-16</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[Where to Eat and Shop in Campos do Jordao: A Local List]]></title>
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    <description><![CDATA[There is a particular quality to Tuesday mornings in Campos do Jordão. The air still carries the cold of the night before, the pines hold a low mist, and the Feira do Produtor on Rua Djalma Dutra fills slowly with the kind of noise that feels earned — wheels on cobblestone, the clatter of wooden crates, a vendor calling a greeting across the stalls. Renata Figueiredo has been coming here since before Patch SDK was a cabin in the hills. She knows which stall sells out of truta defumada by nine, and which baker drives down from the Serra with a cooler of fresh manteiga da terra. This list is not a directory. It is the edited version of years of early mornings and long lunches, written down for guests who want to eat well and shop with intention during their stay.]]></description>
    <pubDate>2026-06-26</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[Reclaimed Wood in Construction: What We Learned Building Cabin Pinheiro]]></title>
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    <description><![CDATA[There is a moment, sometime in the first week of autumn, when the light in the Serra da Canastra turns the colour of amber resin. It was during one of those mornings — mist still caught in the valley below the build site, coffee going cold in a tin mug — that we first understood what we had taken on. The beams had arrived from a farmhouse demolition near Delfinópolis: seventeen pieces of old-growth peroba rosa, the youngest of them felled around 1942. They were heavy in a way that felt almost personal, stained with eighty years of cooking smoke and stored grain. Building Cabin Pinheiro around them was never going to be a straightforward exercise in construction. It was, as our founder Marcos Vidal put it standing in the mud that morning, "an archaeology project that someone forgot to stop before it became a house."]]></description>
    <pubDate>2026-05-08</pubDate>
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