Northern Village visited on our Trek

This Village was having a New Year Celebration for the men. Our guide Aike told us the women have already had their celebration that lasts a whole week and the men's only lasts one day/evening. The men handed us homemade whiskey that was a clear colour and holly crap it tasted sooooo strong one shot and I was feeling it! They were drinking it like water I have no idea how they could be standing. Instead they were smiling, laughing, singing and cutting up a huge pig for dinner. As well firecrackers were being let off.

The children in the other two pics were the ones that jumped on the back of our open truck with us taking Rhiann's nuts and trying to put little handmade bracelets on our wrists so that we would give them money for them. Aike explained that the village parents wanted to deter the children from doing this and asked we did not give them money. It would be better if we purchased hand crafts from the adults and donate after the performance in the evening of singing and dancing. It was so hard not to because they were so friggin cute but this made complete sense the parents do not want their children to become beggers.