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Evenings and Sundays were a time to explore Livingston and get to know some of the people

We ate most of our dinners overlooking the sea at Restaurante Bugamama, which is run by two Salvadorans, Daniel, the Chef, and his wife, Betty, the Dining Room Manager.

We were glad to support this restaurant. The profits help a school for Mayan children, and it provides a place where the older students earn a little money and learn marketable skills by working every other week in the kitchen and dining room.

Tapado is a delicious seafood chowder prepared in coconut milk.

We ate twice at Livingston's "high-end" hotel, reached by a 20-minute taxi ride and then a half-mile walk along the beach.
Katie is relaxing in a hammock in the gazebo at the end of the hotel's dock.
Darwin and three team members enjoying each other's company after dinner.

Jenny captured Maria's avocados ripening in the sun on the chicken coop roof.


The most fun was going behind the falls and swimming out through them!
Sunday afternoon we visited the Seven Altars waterfalls. After a long hike up the river, we enjoyed a lovely swim at the falls.
Some Mayan students performed traditional dances as part of an annual celebration.

Some of our team danced at a disco on the beach on Saturday night.

Achilles worked the tourist trade, always ready with a quick quip and something to sell.

On the left are the three cute young daughters of Cesar, our boat captain, standing in the doorway of their home.

Here is team member Laura with the pastor of the Nazarene church who visited several times during our stay.
This is one of the women we saw in town each day.

 

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