Garifuna
May 15, 2008
My first encounter with the Garifuna people was in 1992 when I stayed in Livingston, Guatemala for a couple nights. My Israeli travel companion Yaron and I hired a small lancha down Rio Dulce, past the warm springs and to Guatemala’s Caribbean coast. Terns glided above, occassionally rolling into a dive and nonchalantly splatting onto the water’s surface. Livingston has Guatemala’s population of people of African descent: the Garifuna.
In two days, I will be in Honduras, on Roatan island. There live Garifuna people there, too. I am eager.
