Trip facts
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1–8
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The Garifuna meal you cook, plus chocolate tasting
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English, Garifuna
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Year-round
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Easy
About this day
Garifuna Immersion & Maya Chocolate Making is a seven-hour day across two cultures: Garifuna drumming, dance and cooking with our family in Hopkins, Belize, then a working Maya cacao farm in southern Belize to see how chocolate is made.
The morning is ours: drumming, dance, and hudut cooked over the fire hearth on Kalipuna Cultural Heritage Island, with the reasons behind the dish as you make it.
The afternoon is cacao. At a working farm you follow the crop through — how it’s grown, and how the beans are fermented, dried and turned into chocolate, something Maya people here have done for a very long time.
You taste handmade chocolate at the end.
What you'll do
- Garifuna drumming and dance with our family
- Cook hudut over the open fire hearth
- Visit a working cacao farm
- Follow cacao from the tree through to chocolate
- Taste handmade Maya chocolate
