Yaritza Ábrego

About

Ngäbe guide from the Bahía Azul side of Bocas, working between the island communities and the mainland since 2011. Her walks are about how people live on the archipelago rather than what the brochures call it: cacao, thatch, dugout building and the language itself. Interpreting is done in Ngäbere and Spanish, with English when needed. She books nothing that a community has not agreed to host.

Tours & Experiences

Tour

Recorrido por el manglar

Three hours through the mangrove channels by dugout, with the fishing and the crab traps explained by the people who set them.

$483 hrs

Tour

Taller de artesanía ngäbe

Half a day learning to work the chácara fibre with the women who make them. You will not finish a bag, and you will understand why they cost what they cost.

$554 hrs

Tour

Día de cacao

A full day on the mainland with a cacao-growing family: pod to paste, over a fire, drunk the way it is actually drunk here. Lunch is cooked by the host household.

$706 hrs