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Cultural immersions

Ways to spend a day with us.

Every experience is hands-on, led by our family, and capped at a small group. Cook over open fire, put your hands on a drum, paddle the lagoon — or sit by the water and let the day slow down. Prices are per person in USD; tips are not included.

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Guests husking coconuts together during a Garifuna cultural and culinary day at Palmento Grove

Full Day Cultural Immersion

11 experiences
A cook frying over the open hearth in the Palmento Grove kitchen, Hopkins, Belize

Cooking & Food

7 experiences
A Garifuna drumming and dancing session with guests playing the drums at Palmento Grove

Drumming & Dance

4 experiences
A Palmento Grove therapist working on a guest's shoulders on the massage deck over Fresh Water Creek Lagoon, Hopkins, Belize

Healing & Wellness

3 experiences
Kayakers with headlamps among the mangroves on the bioluminescent lagoon at night, Hopkins, Belize

Kayaking & Lagoon

7 experiences
The porch of a guest cabin looking through to the room, Palmento Grove

Culture & Wellness Package

3 experiences
A teaching session at Palmento Grove, Hopkins, Belize

Virtual Experience

4 experiences
Grey minivan used for Palmento Grove transfers between Hopkins and Belize City, San Ignacio and Placencia

Transfers

6 experiences
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Cooking & food

Cook with us

Grate cassava for ereba, pound green plantain for hudut, then eat it at the same table we do.

Handmade chocolate on a wooden board at the Maya chocolate centre in Maya Center, Belize

7 Hours
Full Day
$179
Tall flames under a cast-iron pan on the open-fire hearth at Palmento Grove, Hopkins, Belize
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5 Hours
Half Day
$149
Guest grating cassava on a board during a Garifuna cooking class at Palmento Grove, Hopkins, Belize

6 Hours
Full Day
$149
A Garifuna elder speaking with visitors at Palmento Grove, Hopkins, Belize
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5 Hours
Half Day
$149
Handmade chocolate on a wooden board at the Maya chocolate centre in Maya Center, Belize
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6 Hours
Full Day
$189
Corn tortilla lifted from a comal over an open fire in a Maya kitchen, southern Belize
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2 Hours
Half Day
$124.99
A cook frying over the open hearth in the Palmento Grove kitchen, Hopkins, Belize
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2 Hours
Half Day
$89
Drumming & dance

Drums and dance

Hands on a primero, taught by a drummer who started at five — then dance to it.

Rayton Martinez, the drumming instructor, seated at a Garifuna drum in the music pavilion at Palmento Grove, Hopkins, Belize
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7 Hours
Full Day
$199
Guests seated at Garifuna drums during a drumming session at Palmento Grove, Hopkins, Belize
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4 Hours
Half Day
$60
Hands playing a Garifuna drum at Palmento Grove, Hopkins, Belize
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2 Hours
Half Day
$69
A Garifuna drumming and dancing session with guests playing the drums at Palmento Grove
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2 Hours
Half Day
$99
Healing & wellness

Rest and remedy

A massage that begins in the herbal garden, and the plants Garifuna and Maya healers still use.

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6 Hours
Full Day
$149.99
Freshly picked herbs and flowers in a basket in the garden at Palmento Grove, Hopkins, Belize
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4 Hours
Half Day
$149.99
A Palmento Grove therapist working on a guest's shoulders on the massage deck over Fresh Water Creek Lagoon, Hopkins, Belize
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2 Hours
Short Session
$139
Kayaking & lagoon

On the water

Paddle Freshwater Creek Lagoon — by daylight, or after dark when the water lights up.

Pelican perched on a dock post over the lagoon at Hopkins, Belize

5 Hours
Half Day
$149
Bird flying over the lagoon at sunset near Hopkins, Belize
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4 Hours
Half Day
$149
Guests in red and blue kayaks on Fresh Water Creek Lagoon, Hopkins, Belize
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6 Hours
Full Day
$149
Palmento Grove from the air — the island lodge and massage pavilion on Freshwater Creek Lagoon, Hopkins, Belize
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2 Hours
Half Day
$69
Palmento Grove from the air — the island lodge and massage pavilion on Freshwater Creek Lagoon, Hopkins, Belize
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4 Hours
Rental
$25
Guests paddling kayaks on Freshwater Creek Lagoon at Palmento Grove, Hopkins, Belize
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4 Hours
Half Day
$99
Kayakers with headlamps among the mangroves on the bioluminescent lagoon at night, Hopkins, Belize
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2 Hours
Half Day
$79
Stay on the island

Stay the night

One to three nights on Kalipuna in one of our two solar-powered rooms, with the experiences built in.

The porch of a guest cabin looking through to the room, Palmento Grove
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4 Days
Package
$799
Anichigu, a solar-powered guest cabin on stilts at Palmento Grove, its name on a sign by the door
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3 Days
Package
$499
Thatched-roof cabin with a solar panel under palm trees on Kalipuna Island, Palmento Grove, Hopkins, Belize
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2 Days
Package
$199
Online experiences

From wherever you are

Cook, drum and learn Garifuna with our family, live on Google Meet.

Gathering herbs and flowers into a woven basket in the garden at Palmento Grove, Hopkins, Belize

Online Class
$15
Hands playing a Garifuna drum at Palmento Grove, Hopkins, Belize

1 Hour
Online Class
$30
A teaching session at Palmento Grove, Hopkins, Belize

1 Hour
Online Class
$20
Hands working over a bowl in the cultural kitchen at Palmento Grove

1 Hour
Online Class
$30
Not sure which one

Tell us what you’re drawn to and we’ll suggest the day.

Some people come to cook. Some come for the drums. Some just want the water and the quiet. Write to us with your dates and we’ll put something together.

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