Ah, the Beautiful Barrigón Valley. The 1,500 people in my community live scattered along the mountainsides, and we are surrounded by a national park, small farms and lots of tropical forest.

Now that it´s the rainy season, clouds linger on the mountains for most of the day.

This is a typical kitchen for people in Barrigón: a woodburning stove, thatched roof, dirt floor and lots of smoke. Most families also have small gas stove, but cooking over a fire is usually prefered.