Colombia

  There are so many amazing foods and drinks in Colombia and some of them are natural fruit juices and panela, and some of the natural fruit juice flavors are mango, blackberry, strawberry, passion fruit, guanabana (soursop), guava, lemonade, coconut lemonade, lulo, orange and mandarin. You can pick if you want your juice to be in water or milk. My favorite type is strawberry and blackberry in water. Panela is sugar water. There are 2 types of panela. One type is cold and with lemonade, the other type is warm with just sugar. Sometimes they put cheese in it. I don’t like it with cheese at all. Coffee is pretty much what Colombia is known for. One of my favorite foods in Colombia is salchipapas. Salchipapas are french-fries and sausage that sometimes has rosada sauce. Rosada sauce is ketchup mixed with mayonnaise. I don’t like rosada sauce. In Colombia lots of sauces come in pouches like mayonnaise, ketchup, mustard and jelly. Some types of jelly are blackberry, strawberry, pineapple an

When we went to the Amazon, we spent time in two indigenous communities. Both communities were right off the river. There are no roads to them; we just rode in a boat to get to them. The first community we visited was called Comunidad Remanso. There are 200 people, 40 of them are kids (0-10). We spent three nights there. The first night we were the only guests (and we ate fish). The second night 16 more people joined and it was the community’s record for visitors. That day, a shipment came in on canoes, that the mayor bought, of mattresses, water buckets, kayaks, big pots, and rice. There was a huge community meeting in the soccer field. Everyone in the community came to get stuff for tourism and some was for them. The soccer field was in the middle of the community. Every evening people would play a game of soccer, and a lot of people in the community watched. Even the dogs knew how to play soccer! The people in Remanso were friendly, but a little shy. They were all really short