Soon enough after returning from Yamari to Brus Laguna we were piled back into a big dugout canoe and were on our way to the second stop - Bélen (Bethlehem). The views along the way were great and we saw all the usual things you might expect like kids swimming and jumping off boats, people doing their washing, people fishing and even a dugout canoe loaded up with cows they had some how persuaded to lie down with their legs in the air so they could be transported. The journey used to involve a potentially dangerous journey out to sea and along the coast but after a few deaths and some nasty hurricanes funds were injected into the local area and the whole community spent something like 220days digging a channel along behind the beach to
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