Photo: Kuna Indian climbing for Coconuts

Place: Valhalla, sailing yacht, Cartagena, Colombia

Gijs Bekenkamp

By Gijs Bekenkamp
Uploaded on 29 January 2008
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Kuna Indian climbing for Coconuts

The only thing you can buy on the island is fresh baked bread, seafood and pipas (variant of the coconut which is mainly used for its milk). For a while these pipas used to be the currency on the San Blas islands but recently they've changed that into the Balboa of Panama. In the evening we buy some pipas. One of the locals cuts them open and we bring them back to the Valhalla. Here we add some rum to the pipa and voila, a cocoloco.

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