We had an all day tour. The island is a mass of vegetation. If it wasn’t plowed for roads or towns or homes it would be a jungle or rain forest. Sugar Cane goes on forever fields as far as you can see. It is very pretty. It looks like a huge blade of grass with a huge white featheron top. Then there are fields of sorghum used I think for animal feed. It looks like thick short blades of grass with reddish brown small husks. But fields that go on. Then fruit, banana and plantain trees everywhere. Then mangoes, pineapples, papaya and lime trees. The population is not hungry because the source of fruit is endless.
A lot of the people are very poor. Some live in a 20ftx20ft corregated metal pieced squares with no door to speak of, but they sweep the dirt. If you have a drop more, maybe the square is of cinder block and if your lucky it’s painted pink, yellow, what’s available. Then there is the individual horse tied to a tree next to the road eating whatever grass it can find. That’s transportation. If your lucky you have a bike with a front seat. Even better you have a tut-tut a three wheeled car that tuts along. Filth is everywhere. Clothes are hanging everywhere. Roads are dirt, all but the main road. If your lucky you have a home on a cement slab. There’s a cow, white and with horns, or a pig here and there. Chickens run around everywhere.
We went to visit a volcano. Holy crap! It was alive! You look down into the smoking middle hole and you actually see moving red on fire lava! With our binoculars the lava is crazy to see it is so red and fire. Almost spooky! There was burned out black lava all over the area.
We stopped for lunch where these young folks danced in some costume. There were a couple of prancing horses. Interesting to see how the the legs on the same side are in sync. The food was tortillas with mashed black beans and shredded chicken and beef, plantain chips and coconut candy. A light beer tona was $3. They also had iguanas huge. I missed seeing one whole cause it was in a tree but was quite thick around hand big eyes and horns of red. We saw macaws, so very loud and colorful. We were tired on the way back.
We meet for dinner the men went one way and my friend and I saw a juggler act which was fun to see. Tomorrow we stop in Coasta RICO.
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