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La Pintada Village - Honduras

Horseback riding through a coffee plantation and up high in the hills we came across the village of La Pintada. The people here live in modest homes with small vegetable gardens and very little wealth. They are happy. The homes are constructed of mud brick with corrugated metal roofs, all that is needed to keep the rain and sun out. Pictured below is a typical kitchen, which is the main area of the house. The mother below is cooking corn tortillas over a wood fire. Corn is life in Central America. Many of the houses have small vegetable gardens for their families and many work on the larger nearby farms.

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The children of the village greeted us with a song and many corn husk dolls and flowers for a ‘good price’. This gives the children great pride as they are able to help out the family by bringing in a little bit of money. We spent the afternoon fending off the doll purchases and watching the boys play soccer. The two grandsons in our group joined in.

I seemed to have attracted three girls from the village, the littlest one held my hand as we toured the village. The four of us were tickling each other and giggling while the tortilla demonstration was going on. I missed a lot of the presentation.

As we left the smallest girl was still holding my hand and I told her I had to go. Got back on my skinny horse and we headed out of the village.

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Location: Cerro Pinto, Honduras

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