Visit to Cultural Site

The cultural site is an opportunity to learn about Ketchwa indigenous people and their traditional life style. Most of the presentation is around diet. We sample some food, drink some strange brew, have a blow dart competition and to top it all off, we also adopted a river turtle. There is too much to tell about it in this short piece, but the highlight for me was when Casey, a young girl from Boston who is travelling with her aunt, eats a live weevil larvae. It is part of the traditional diet, and I had the opportunity as well but I declined. Casey bit the head off that nasty weevil and downed the rest of him whole. That is a crowd pleasing moment, and it drew a round of applause.
Last was the release of the baby river turtle into the river. Ours was named for Norah and Hendrix.Read more