Woke to a misty rain so the jungle tour was cancelled as we wouldn't see anything, so off we went to a small village where we passed all the vendors at the roadside yesterday selling bananas, coconuts, limes and local stuff. There are 6 different types of bananas, one small one called a 2 biter. The bananas are covered in plastic on the trees to keep the rain off so they don't rot. Also saw lots of coconuts groves. The people are wonderfully helpful although they don't speak one word of English so lots of gesturing.
Bought a coconut for 10 pesos and the man whacked it with his machete on both ends until he hit the coconut meat, which he sliced off, put a baggie over the hole and drained the coconut milk into it and added a straw. Tasted like watered down coconut and then he chopped out the meat and bagged that, all with his 2 foot machete. We wandered around the town and bought a few things at the Casa Thomas Super Store including lache, 'milk', which is processed to store in the cupboard and has an expirey date of May 24, 2007.
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