Livingston

 

 Leaving Honduras we amazingle made it all the way to Livingston in Guatemala in one day. Livingston is one of only two towns on Guatemala small Caribean coast. It is only reachable by boat, which is awesome, and is home to the only black commuity, the Garifuina, in the country.  It is not paradise but the scruffy town full of people willing to sell you most anything has a certain charm. Also, I drank out of a cocanut there. I also fell in love with the local Garifuina specialty tepado:

 

Tepado is a soup with a soup with a whole grilled fish, shrimp, and maybe crab and maybe conch, and definetly sweet and savory plantains in a cocanut milk broth. It´s excersise to finish a gigantic bowl and is more beautiful than the white sand beaches Livingston does not have.

Leaving livingston we took a jungle cruise down the rio dulce where we saw tons of birds and generally had a good time.

On to Tikal...