CNN  —  The first time Alfredo Ovalle and Paula Susarte crossed paths, they never exchanged a word. But both left the encounter feeling changed, certain the moment was significant. “Something unspoken passed,” Alfredo tells CNN Travel today. “A silent connection.” “It was something special,” agrees Paula. This unforgettable meeting occurred in 1986, in Melinka, a small village on Ascensión Island, in Chile’s Guaitecas Archipelago. Stunningly picturesque, sparsely populated and surrounded by