When we left our hotel this morning we had a chance to stop at one of the local stands on the side of the road to pick up our fruit for the lunch at the tribe. This was a new experience for me and the fruit looked and smelled just wonderful. We spent some time with our guide picking out what everyone liked and then with our bags full, we were off for the day.
So we just came from the waterfall and as our boats pulled up to the bank by the river, we took off our life jackets and was greeted by members of the Embera Tribe that we were visiting. 
This tribe is a local tribe that lives on the bank of the river and welcomes visitors to their village.
The clothes and the people were beautiful and when we were walking up the path to the main hut we could hear dancing in one of the huts somewhere on the hill.
So now that we were at the village, we found out that each family in the tribe had a table that was filled with their items to sell and I’m just saying it was hard to figure out just what I should buy, everything was made just beautiful. 
I decided on a really cool woven bowl and for now it’s sitting on our fireplace mantel in our house. I’m not sure what I’ll put in it, but it still is pretty awesome and a great remembrance.
After a talk from the mayor (?) of the tribe with help from our tour guide as a translator for us, our meal was delivered by some girls from the village. The first thing was a couple of fruit plates from the fruit that we had picked up at the beginning of the day. They took it and it was all cleaned and prepared for us. Our guide said he purposely picks up extra fruit to share the leftovers with the tribe. And with only 7 people in our group I’m thinking that we for sure was going to have leftovers! 
Then to continue our lunch we were handed some palm leaves with fish and plantains in it. 
We were told that they eat a lot of fish that they catch right from the river and I guess you couldn’t have a fresher meal than we got. Below are some pictures of where they prepare the food. We were told that they got buy with little at this tribe and after you look at the pictures below you would agree.
The kitchen
Cooking the fish
After our meal it was time to watch the women and girls dancing their traditional dances along with the men playing the music.
Then all of a sudden they started to invite us all to dance and soon we were dancing in a hut with the local tribe in the Panamanian jungle. Cool.
After our dancing was done and we did a little more shopping, we headed back to our canoe and eventually made it back up the river to our travel van. What a fantastic experience!