Sunday, January 25, 2009

Carribbean sea no more

Livingston was a quasint town with a very distinguished vibe, mainly consisting of Garifuna people and indegenous Mayans. it still feels like an island and traces its roots to Afric-Caribes. one day we set out on a 2 hour walk down the beach to 7 altares, a set of peaceful waterfalls that flow in to the ocean from the jungle. When we finished hiking around, we sat for some delicious caribbean/creole style vegetables with fry jacvks (a fried dough, replacing tortillas in belize) and tryed some of the homemade Guifiti. We tried some other guifiti in town, hearing that it was an herb infuse rum, containing (from what we could tell) anise, cinammon, and many other jungle herbs, with medicinal properties, such a better imune system and it takes away stomach pains. After talking to a local for a while, he told me that all the big families have a vat of it in their house, and all the children have about a shot per day.
Now we are in belize once again, San Ignacio (after an 8 hour treck to the western most populated area0 where we are staying for a couple of nights before we journey into the jungle, near the creak, neighboring menonite communities (they look amish but i think it is different). We will be out of service from fone or email, so if you wanna get through, call sonyas phone tonight (with the whole *67 thing first).... Im not reall sure what the work entails but its a tropical phlower pharm that gives cave tours and eco tourism stuff so we will probably be in the field, cooking or cleaning, but regardless, im excited to do something new, cheap, and from what all our sources have said, enriching.
hasta quien sabe!!!

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