Orinoco
Hostal Garifuna
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NATURE GAVE US A LOT, EXPERIENCE IT
Hostal Garifuna is a tour organizer, too. Our intention is to turn a normal visit to an unique an unforgettable experience for our visitors. We can only offer what we got, but fortunately nature gave us a lot: Great Pearl Lagoon, amazing rivers Wawashan and Patchriver, tropical rain forest reserves Wawashan and Kakha Creek, Pearl Keys, with its Crystal water and coral reefs. Take your time to get to experience all the natural beauty of our region.
But we were even more lucky: Orinoco is one of the unique places ot the world to familiarize with the great Garifuna culture, proclaimed to be a part of Intangible heritage of Humanity; by UNESCO. We are more than happy to share the experience of living this amazing culture with You.
BE A PART OF COMMUNITY LIFE
It's great to get know of foreign and exotic cultures and places, but to our mind, this is not enough. We want to offer You the opportunity to take a part in the everyday life of Garifuna community of Orinoco. We have started several campaigns in order to improve the livelihood of Orinoco and to preserve the nature and vulnerable natural resources. And of course we want that economically less fortunate families have a change to improve their situation and living conditions. Be more than a tourist, and take a part in these campaigns. You will be part of preserving and improving Orinoco towards the future.
PLANT YOUR OWN MAHONGANY TREE IN TROPICAL RAIN FOREST
There isn't big trees anymore in the neighbourhood of Orinoco community. Therefore there isn't material to elaborate the solid wood canoes, cayucos anymore. Among the community people we decided, that this isn't the situation after next 20 years. We decided to start plant new trees to reestablish the old destroyed forests. And we decided to protect small trees until they are big enough to protect themselves against the jungle weed and wandering animals. And we decided, that in 20 years we will have our cayuco trees again, but this time in sustainable way. And we decided that we don't be the generation what prevent our children to make their own cayucos in the future. So we decided make a change.
Where to start to plant these small trees: of course to the most vulnerable areas, such as nearby the creeks. The advantage is double: while growing high the trees are preserving the limited sweet water resources and giving the opportunity to have valuable liquid in the future. Again, we decided to make a difference.
Help Us to go on with this process. Orinoco people don't have enough economical resources to buy enough plants, barbed wire against the animals and fuel to transport the plants in the pangas to the reforestation areas. We calculated, that every tree has a investment value of $ 20 when it is 2-3 years old and though is tough enough to survive by itself.
If You feel to take a part in this process economically; we provide You the planting and nursing process of the small trees. More than that: we provide you the specific information about Your adopted tree. We will take a video of the planting moment and put it to YouTube. In the video there is a personal metal plate of Your name (or name You suggested) and GPS coordinates of Your tree. If you want to come to Orinoco and see Your tree personally, it is possible and recommendable and easy, because of the unique geographical coordinates.