Jenn in front of our Puerto Viejo hotel
Today we said goodbye to our first Caribbean town and headed 15 miles or so down the dirt road to another called Puerto Viejo. This morning we went on a tour with another couple we met at our hotel. We started out by driving down along the Panamanian border along all the banana plantations and ending up on the Bri Bri reservation. The Bri Bri are a native people who were here before the Spanish. There we went on a walk around a families home and got to see how they live, as well as a demonstration on the different plants they use for medicines. We also got to see a white-faced monkey that the family had found up in the mountains with a broken foot that they were nursing back to health. It was cool, the dad was feeding it with a baby bottle. After the visit we hiked down to a waterfall and went for a swim underneath it. Then we went to a native chocolate making demonstration. Finally the tour ended at an Iguana farm where a local family is single handedly keeping the iguana population from going extinct. After the tour was over we checked into our next hotel. This one is similar to the first in that it is a collection of little bungalows set in the jungle. The rest of the day was spent exploring the town and the beach.
This is the native's house... 16 people live in this one room house
Feeding the injured monkey
Hiking down to the waterfall
Brian under the falls
chocolate making demonstration
Re-populating the endangered iguana population
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