Avila Experience: A cultural tour with the Bribri Indians

This indigenous tour brings you into contact with the Bribri people who live on the border between Costa Rica and Panama. A small Bribri tribe, the Kekoldi, lives on the Kèköldi Indigenous Reservation, where they have a plot of land with iguanas and medicinal plants. This is your first stop, where the family living there is dedicated to the green iguana, a species that was once endangered. Next, it’s time to learn more about chocolate. Cocoa plays a vital role in Bribri culture, as they use it for purification, as food and as medicine. You’ll head to the cocoa house, where a local will show you how to make chocolate and where you’ll get to taste different flavours. The third stop is a visit to a farm to see medicinal plants, followed by a visit to a waterfall where you can take a refreshing dip. The tour concludes with a typical local lunch.