Kalipuna Island

Start with a full Garifuna breakfast, then cook hudut and learn the drums. The food-and-rhythm day.

Two hours paddling Fresh Water Creek Lagoon — mountains behind you, an estuary ahead, and a guide who knows where to look.

Six hours in Hopkins: a guided paddle on Fresh Water Creek Lagoon, then a Garifuna meal you help cook, the history behind it, and the drums.

A five-hour afternoon ride through Hopkins village: food at a local eatery, the history of the village, and the people who carry its stories.

Two nights on Kalipuna Cultural Heritage Island with breakfasts and dinners, Garifuna cultural and culinary experiences, the Herbal Healing Trail, an herbal bath and a deep ancestral massage.

One night on Kalipuna Cultural Heritage Island with breakfast and our Garifuna cultural and culinary experience. $199 per person, two sharing.

Cook hudut over an open fire on our island in the lagoon. Pick your own herbs, press coconut milk by hand, then share the meal.

A 90-minute visit to Kalipuna Cultural Heritage Island: Garifuna history, the island's own story, and a tasting of seasonal fruit and food.

Three nights on Kalipuna Cultural Heritage Island: breakfasts and dinners, Garifuna culture and cooking, the healing trail and massage, a hook-and-cook snorkeling trip, and sunset or bioluminescence kayaking.

Take a kayak out on Fresh Water Creek Lagoon at your own pace. Mangrove channels, manatees and birdlife. Daylight rentals, four hours.