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Showing posts with label mangoes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label mangoes. Show all posts

Sunday, July 14, 2013

Day 5: The view and picking mangoes (pictures)

I have spelled the plural of "mango" wrong my entire life...it is "mangoes" not "mangos"...I like how they say it here, pronounced "MONgoes" Ya mon.(Pictures by Kylie)
Goats we saw on the way there:
 View of the ocean:
Kwao driving us to start the hike (took me awhile to get used to the driver being on the other side):

A view of where we were hiking:

Mangoes from the farm:

 More mangoes, watch out for ticks in the grass (which are flea-sized, not what I'm used to):
 Kwao goes mango hunting:
 View of the ocean while coming back from the hike:
More of the ocean:

 The backs of Kwao (to the right) and Kyle (to the left, guy that came along with us) during hiking:
 A taste of what we had to climb through:
 The mountains:


Friday, July 12, 2013

Day 3: Visit to the farm and the most amazing dessert

 We visited the other property they have across Robins Bay. It was a bit of a drive across the worst road in the world. I'll get a picture of it. It was built in 1975 by the government ....and NEVER repaired. You can see some remains of asphalt but barely. Jamaica has the most road per square mile in the world (though in rough conditions). The farm was devastated in 2004 by Hurricane Irene and has not been returned to its original, operating state. There used to be lots of fruit trees, but it is overgrown now. We climbed through the jungle in order to find and pick mangoes to bring back. Apparently, there are 20 different mango types on the farm alone. The ones we picked are long mangoes which are delicious, juicy, and less stringy to me.
Last night, Agape made a delicious dessert! These are coconut chocolate bites. They are cooked with ginger and honey in a skillet over the stove. The chocolate is actually just the seed ground and roasted. Agape said that in the U.S. she would use wax paper, but here she picked a giant banana leaf for them to cool off on. Quite the treat! We all sat around the table chatting and waiting for them to cool. I got to lick to spoon.