Trip facts
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2–12
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English, Garifuna
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Traditional Garifuna lunch
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Easy
About this experience
Garifuna Drum Making & Playing is a seven-hour experience in Hopkins, Belize, starting at 8:30 AM: you make your own Garifuna drum with one of the drum makers we work with, paddle to Palmento Grove for a traditional lunch, learn to play it, and take it home.
A drum is made before it is played, and making one yourself changes how you hear it. You spend the morning with a drum maker, working on your own drum. Then you paddle to the island, share a traditional lunch with us, and learn your first rhythms on the drum you made.
You leave with the drum, and with something to play on it.
What you'll do
- Make your own Garifuna drum with a drum maker
- Paddle to Palmento Grove on Kalipuna Island
- A traditional Garifuna lunch
- A drumming lesson on the drum you made
- Take your drum home
