Old anthropology student here. I remember about 25 years ago that I went down to Roatan for a culture studies trip and spent about two weeks there. Nothing there. No sign of tourism. There was a small dolphin enclosure in the West End of the island, where some rather bedraggled tourists would visit, but most of the island was underdeveloped and strung together with chicken wire, dust and light poles. Half of the island was without asphalt roads and most of the tracks from village to village were dusty and laced through trees.
I've seen some pictures of it lately, and I swear you would think it is St. Kitts in some areas. Has anyone been before or since and can give your point of view about what Roatan is like these days compared to the old days?
I remember sleeping in a hut with a wood floor made with banana leaves and thatch. Tarantulas on the ground and a snake and a rat in the rafters overhead. I watched a football game on a pitch that was nothing more than sand and rocks, and trash bins as goal posts. IT was a great time. I remember engaging in the indulgence of a certain smokey herb with some local Garifuna men and being so inebriated and high from it that I thought I had been kidnapped. They tried to talk me down with peanut butter, but I thought I was choking to death, so they took me down to the ocean and I was bathed int he warm sands and water of the Caribbean.
I don't imagine it would be that magical today.
Submitted August 25, 2020 at 07:28PM by FellatioFellas https://ift.tt/3hHjo1D
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