From Barillas Marina, we took a walking tour to visit a family caring for monkeys in the jungle. This was our guide sharing sugar cane with us…a little too sweet for me.
This is a cane cutter…couldn’t have met a friendlier, happier chap! What a dirty, filthy, horrible, hot job this would be…but his spirits couldn’t have been higher. He was happy to have his photo taken and didn’t want $...though everyone gave him something.
This is his wife, lest you think it’s just a man’s job. The cane is burnt first, so that is why they are so black.
I don’t know how they can stand the heat dressed like that. It is at least 32 in the shade. They both have bare feet too!
We finally arrived at the house in the jungle. What a hovel, and who knows how many people live there. Some brought gifts (I would have, but I originally thought we were just seeing jungle monkeys, not a family as well). We gave money. Nakia brought a soccer ball…what a hit that was!!
I can’t express the poverty here. The photos don't even come close.
Even the dogs and chickens are skinny!
This little guy is just all ears and bones.
I finally tore myself away from the house, and found the spider monkeys. What an interesting sight!
One was caged as he had been raised in captivity and the rest of the wild monkeys picked on him. The others swung back and forth from the trees and munched on bananas that we brought. See the baby under her arm?
The story is that during the civil war, the soldiers were killing and eating them. So, this family tried to protect some. This is the head of the family offering a banana.
This is their well and water system. They can haul water out of the well, pour in in at this end and it runs down to the barrel at the other end. There they do their food prep and laundry.
This is the little guy who got the soccer ball…now enjoying a candy treat.
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