Brukdong Festival
Package Includes
- “Welcome” dinner and breakfast on the first morning
- Accommodations
- Festival Ticket and Transportation
- Festival Wallet with $200.00 BZD
- Tours
- Airport Transfers on arrival and leaving days **inquire for details
The Bram is a traditional Creole celebration that extends back hundreds of years. Similar in some ways to caroling and in other ways to the “Wren Festival” or the “Wren Boys” in Gaelic traditions, the Bram is a raucous mobile house party that has signaled the start of the Christmas season across Belize for generations. I’d say the best Brams in the country are celebrated in the villages… in particular in Gales Point Manatee. Historically, Belizeans working in the logging and mining industries left home for months at a time to work in the remote jungles. In December, the workers would return home to their families after months of toil, money in their pockets, a thirst that would drown a fish, and a fire for fun in their veins after months away from family and friends.
Accompanied by loud and lively “Brukdong” music, singing, and dancing, the Bram went from house to house. At each stop, the merry-makers were offered food and drink, and the celebrating in series continued until those participants could move on no more.
The instruments to accompany the singing and dancing were whatever was available. Most common were goombay (two-sided) drums, forks and graters, and just about anything the participants could get their hands on to make noise with.
Itinerary
First day
Arrival at 8 a.m. local time at the Phillip Goldson International Airport where you will be picked up via shuttle and taken to the Radisson Fort George Hotel and Marina. Check into the room. 1 hour leisure time given after which a city tour is arranged with a licensed tour guide accumulating 1 hr 30 mins. Returning to the hotel after the tour which ends on day one.
Second Day
Today we are going up to visit the Maya Ruin of Altun Ha. At the site, there will be a visual of what life was like in the time of the Mayans and information about their rich history. This is a full-day tour with a licensed tour guide with the opportunity to purchase carvings, bracelets, etc that depicts the Mayan culture to take back with you. There will also be an opportunity to try the local food dishes. Returning to the Hotel at 5 p.m.
Third-Day
It’s time to leave the Hotel and explore Old Belize where there will be a train tour giving information about Belize’s history. Then you get to enjoy a relaxing day on the beach. At 3 p.m. we leave Old Belize in route back to the Hotel where you will freshen up and get ready to attend our cultural event called the Kriol Brukdong Bram starting at 7 p.m. where you will get to enjoy authentic Belizean music, food and experience Christmas the Belizean way.
Fourth Day
We go down the George Price Highway to the Belize Zoo where you will experience the animals in their natural habitat. From there we depart heading to Jaguar Paw where you will enjoy cave tubing and Zip-lining above the canopy.
Fifth Day
You get to relax before checking out of the hotel, where you will be shuttled back to the international airport to catch your flight.
What’s included
- “Welcome” dinner and breakfast on the first morning
- Festival Ticket and Transportation
- Site transfers
- Accommodations
- Airport Transfers on arrival and leaving days **inquire for details
Not Included
- Flights
- Insurance
- Additional Services
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