Garifuna Culture Activity Packages

Half-Day Packages
We offer a variety of flexible half-day packages, with the option to include a traditional Garifuna meal of fresh fish fillet sauteed in mildly spiced coconut milk served with mashed plantain (known as “hudut” in Garifuna). Minimum 2 people.
2: 1 hour interactive drum-making lesson/demonstration
3: 30 minute traditional Garifuna drum group performance featuring 4-member band
4: 1 hour traditional Garifuna dancing lesson
For groups of 4+ people: $115Bz (without meal); $125Bz (with meal)
Half-Day Garifuna Drumming & Cooking Package
We offer a 1 hour drumming lesson, followed by approximately 2 hour cooking lesson, where you will learn how to cook the traditional Garifuna meal of hudut. You will learn how to make coconut milk from scratch, prepare and pound the green and ripe plantain, and season the coconut milk broth ready to sautee the fresh fillet fish. You will then sit down and enjoy the delicious meal you just made!
Minimum 2 people.
For groups of 4+ people: $125Bz
Whole-Day Garifuna Culture Packages
- 10am-12n: Drum-making lesson (chiselling, sanding, planning logs, tightening skins, etc.)
- 12n-1pm: Traditional “hudut” lunch with fish fillet and juice or soda
- 1pm-2:30pm: 1 1/2 hr interactive Garifuna drumming lesson
- 2:30-3.15pm: 45 minute group performance (4-member group)
- 3:15 – 4pm: 45 minute dancing lesson with group accompaniment
- 10am-12n: “Hudut” cooking lesson
- 12n-1pm: Enjoy the hudut lunch you just made with some fresh juice.
- 1pm-2:30pm: 1 1/2 hr interactive Garifuna drumming lesson
- 2:30-3.15pm: 45 minute group performance (4-member group)
- 3:15 – 4pm: 45 minute dancing lesson with group accompaniment
Option 3 (Garifuna Extravaganza – Cooking, Drum-Making, Drumming & Dancing): $200Bz per person inc. lunch – min. 3 people
- 10am-12n: “Hudut” cooking lesson
- 12n-1pm: Enjoy the hudut lunch you just made with some fresh juice.
- 1pm-2pm:Drum-making lesson
- 2pm-3pm: 1 hr interactive Garifuna drumming lesson
- 3-3:30pm: 30 minute group performance (4-member group)
- 3:30 – 4pm: 30 minute dancing lesson with group accompaniment