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Chicha Fuerte Festival - San Blas
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Stores coming into Porviner

The tourists from the cruise ships flying into to Porviner and off on a trip to neighboring islands

Cayuko sailing through the anchorage

Taking a wander through one of the islands off of Porviner

Bumping into the Stahlratte again in Porviner

The busy anchorage


The airstrip at Porviner, you'd better look both ways when you are crossing!

Off over to the Isla Robesons and Isla Gertie, you couldn't squeeze another house on if you tried


3 cheeky little girls coming over to check out the boat

Off they go in their cayuko

Sitting in the local tienda having a beer

being checked out by the local kids


Saying hello to the piggy wigs

Cayuko parking

Marie in the anchorage

Seeing how they make the cayukos


The tree that the cayuko was made from


Over at Fredrico's finca helping him to pull up the yucca's


A chili bush, the first hot chiles we have seen since Guatemala

Pulling up the yucca roots


Replanting the stems

Chopping the vegetable from the stem


Other cayuko's on the rivers

Taking the dingy back

Stuart with Fredrico's friendly little parakeet

Fredrico's Aunt and Saila number 3

The cayuko race the day before the Chicha Fuerte festival, the guys in the lead ended up capsizing and the guys at the back won!


Watching the basketball championship


The winning team

Fredrico and his son

The cheeky little monkeys

Fredrico's wife and child

Having the traditional black line painted down my nose!

It doesn't look quite right on me!

More piggy wigs




Another of the cheeky little monkeys, this one wasn't too sure about having her picture taken!

The day of the Chicha Fuerte festival



Stuart before he lobbed his hair off on the way to the Coco's

Stuart during the hair escapade!

Mano with a lovely new wig!

Stuart with no hair, looking like a right convict!

Back to the Coco Banderos

This is what can happen to you if you have bad weather and attempt a small reefy channel. This boat is wrecked off of the Coco Banderos (great snorkeling around it though and this is where the large Nurse shark likes to hang out.)
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