The Kuna people use dug out canoes to travel between the many islands making up the San Blas.
- The Kuna people use dug out canoes to travel between the many islands making up the San Blas.
- Florinda carefully ties a beaded bracelet to my wrist.
- Demelia walks across the small island - no more than 50 meters across.
- Florinda laughs as she expresses disbelief that we don't use coconut for cooking our rice.
- Cooking rice with coconut milk - yum!
- Smoking fish to take back to the family.
- Back from the reef with the catch of the day.
- Peeling off the thick fibrous layer of coconut is tough - but her long-handled pliers made it quick and easy.
- Demelia hands me a piece of fresh coconut - YUM!
- Their homemade ladle for scooping up coffee - made from some type of gourd.
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