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Chocolate, Garifuna Cooking & Waterfall
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Tour Overview
Join us for a full day of hands-on fun: first Che’il Chocolate’s organic cacao farm and Maya chocolate making experience in Maya Centre, then cooking the delectable Garifuna dish hudut over a wood burning fire hearth in Hopkins. We finish off our day with a refreshing swim at Maya King rain forest waterfall!
Tour description
Join us as we head inland to Maya Centre, a Mopan Maya village at the mouth of the famous Cockscomb Jaguar Reserve, for a tour of a cacao farm and hands-on chocolate making with Che’il Chocolate company. After our morning with chocolate we visit Hopkins Village, a picturesque seaside Garifuna community an hour drive north of Placencia. Here the famous Chef Gloria Lambey welcomes us to her home where we learn to make a delicious plate of hudut(savory coconut milk and fresh herb broth, pounded plantain and fresh fish) from scratch. Husk a coconut and turn it into milk for the base of this savory dish and participate in every step of creating this famous and delicious meal over a traditional wood burning fire hearth. After eating our fill in Hopkins, we cool off in a beautiful rain forest waterfall nestled in the foot hills of the Cockscomb Mountains.
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Cancellations made 8+ days before the tour get a full refund. No refunds are given for cancellations within 7 days of the tour. For more information read our policy.
USD 175.00 / day
Sales tax included
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