Half-Day Drumming, drum-making and cultural meal experience
- 3h 15m
- Guided in English
- Private tour
- Mobile ticket
Highlights
Spend the morning delving into the history, people, music & food of the Garifuna culture on this half day tour. Meet your guide at Warasa Garifuna Drum School in Punta Gorda. Spend the morning or afternoon delving into the history, people, music & food of the Garifuna culture on this half day tour. Meet your guide at Warasa Garifuna Drum School in Punta Gorda and step inside our open-air thatched palapa and learn about enjoy a one-hour drumming lesson. Learn about Garifuna drums and history and how to play up to 6 rhythms on the segunda drum. Play with your host, who will play the faster-paced primero drum while singing traditional songs. Afterwards, enjoy one hour drum-making lesson followed by your delicious "hudut" Garifuna fish stew lunch.
Inclusions
What's included
- Live entertainment
- Lunch
What's not
- Hotel pickup and drop-off (if option not selected)
- Gratuities
Itinerary
9.30am-10.30am: Drumming lesson 10.30am-11.30am: Drum-making lesson 11.30am-12pm: Group performance 12n-12.30pm: Traditional “hudut” lunch with fish fillet
Cancellation
All sales are final. No refund is available for cancellations.
Know before you go
- Pickup
- Everyone meets at the starting point; there is no pickup.
- Ticket type
- Mobile or paper ticket accepted
- Operated by
- Warasa Garifuna Drum School
- Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
- Service animals allowed
- Suitable for all physical fitness levels
- Dress code: women and girls advised not to wear dresses or skirts. Wear clothes you don't mind getting dusty and sweaty
- Vegetarian/non-fish lunch option is available, please advise at time of booking if required
- Minimum numbers apply. There is a possibility of cancellation after confirmation if there are not enough passengers to meet requirements. In the event of this occurring, you will be offered an alternative or full refund
About Punta Gorda
Punta Gorda is the southernmost town in Belize, a quiet Caribbean port and the gateway to Maya villages, cacao farms, ruins and rainforest rivers.
Punta Gorda, known locally as PG, is the main town of the Toledo District, on the Gulf of Honduras in the far south of Belize. A small waterfront, a market and wooden houses on stilts give it a quiet, easy character. Garifuna, Maya, Creole, East Indian and Mennonite communities all live in the region.
Top-ranked sights in Punta Gorda: Warasa Garifuna Drum School.
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