There's "music" in the air most nights but it's usually ear-splitting church revivals or out-of-tune tubas and trumpets sounding like farts and rusty brakes. Last weekend though was a festival of contemporary music --- a Mex-Reggae fusion free party on the beach. The usual shell crafts and taco tents but also large-scale spray paint artists doing typically weird canvasses. The highlight of the weekend was The Byt Band, a really energetic combo with a huge following here. No singer, but catchy riffs on horns and percussion. Check them out on Spotify!
A 50 cent truck ride takes you to Barra de Navidad, a place I imagined as a cool surf village. NOT. Just another dusty crossroads hamlet with locals trying to make a living. Walking back on the bridge is a little scary-hairy because there's no sidewalk! But good views of the muddy tidal Colotepec River, a glimpse of the jungle before the Spaniards came by.
Everyday chores have to be done. The tiny laundry room is next to the landlady's display of bags hand-folded from colourful shiny packaging such as cereal boxes. And a $3.50 haircut includes offers to shape my eyebrows like the cool guy before me!
The amount of garbage strewn everywhere is depressing, but surprisingly the beach gets a volunteer cleanup almost every day. Steps away, the local open fishing boats roar up onto the shore on branches acting as rollers. Instantly the boat is swarmed with shoppers snagging the catch of their day. Meanwhile anchored offshore is a much larger tuna boat, selling a few on the side. Sombrero sushi anyone?
A 50 cent truck ride takes you to Barra de Navidad, a place I imagined as a cool surf village. NOT. Just another dusty crossroads hamlet with locals trying to make a living. Walking back on the bridge is a little scary-hairy because there's no sidewalk! But good views of the muddy tidal Colotepec River, a glimpse of the jungle before the Spaniards came by.
Everyday chores have to be done. The tiny laundry room is next to the landlady's display of bags hand-folded from colourful shiny packaging such as cereal boxes. And a $3.50 haircut includes offers to shape my eyebrows like the cool guy before me!
The amount of garbage strewn everywhere is depressing, but surprisingly the beach gets a volunteer cleanup almost every day. Steps away, the local open fishing boats roar up onto the shore on branches acting as rollers. Instantly the boat is swarmed with shoppers snagging the catch of their day. Meanwhile anchored offshore is a much larger tuna boat, selling a few on the side. Sombrero sushi anyone?
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