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Traditional life in three Mayan villages in southern Belize. Cacao growers, dugout canoe travel, school children, hammocks.
  • Family in dugout canoe returns home at dusk on the Belize-Guatemalan border By photographer Todd Shapera
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  • On a Sunday afternoon, families in Mayan village of Midway, in southern Belize, watch a Sunday afternoon movie on a new VCR in a neighbor's thatched hut. By photographer Todd Shapera
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  • Traditional hammock and new stereo system are among spartan furnishings inside a thatched Mayan hut in southern Belize. By photographer Todd Shapera
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  • On a Sunday afternoon, locals in Midway village, southern Belize, line up outside a thatched home where the owner is playing a Kung Fu video on his new VCR. The floor inside the hut is also packed with children and adults watching the action movie. By photographer Todd Shapera
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  • Man in his thatched hut with village's only phone in southern Belize.<br /> <br /> Village: midway<br /> a Mayan village By photographer Todd Shapera
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  • January rain on two room school in traditional Mayan village in southern Belize. It rains 150 inches per year. By photographer Todd Shapera
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  • Primary teacher smiles in her classroom in southern Belize By photographer Todd Shapera
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  • Smiling Mayan village girl in Southern Belize By photographer Todd Shapera
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  • School girl at desk in Midway, a Mayan Village, Southern Belize.. By photographer Todd Shapera
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  • Second grade school teacher conducts class in Midway Village in Southern Belize.<br /> A traditional Mayan village. By photographer Todd Shapera
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  • Children in uniform line up to enter their thatched classroom in Midway village, southern Belize. Midway is a traditional Mayan village. By photographer Todd Shapera
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  • Mayan school children begin their morning with flag raising and a prayer in southern Belize By photographer Todd Shapera
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  • Flag raising at primary school in Midway village in Southern Belize By photographer Todd Shapera
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  • Barefoot Mayan children walk to school in southern Belize. By photographer Todd Shapera
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  • Mayan woman using peddle-sewing machine in her thatched hut in Midway village in southern Belize By photographer Todd Shapera
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  • Mayan woman feeds her chickens in southern Belize By photographer Todd Shapera
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  • Farmer in southern Belize harvests lemon grass in his yard for tea By photographer Todd Shapera
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  • A Cacao pod in the rainforest of southern Belize -- the heartland of traditional Mayan cacao production. Cacao is one of the few cash crops in the poor region. With growing world demand for organic chocolate, Cadburys promises Mayan farmers it will buy all the cacao they grow, and pay premium prices for it. Much of it ends up in Cadbury's Mayan Gold chocolate bars. By photographer Todd Shapera
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  • A Mayan cacao farmer, tending to his tree in a rainforest in southern Belize. The tree, planted five years ago, produced it's first saleable caco in 2007. Southern Belize is the heartland of traditional Mayan cacao production. Local farmers sell their organic, rainforest-grown cacao at premium prices to Cadburys. Cacao is one of the few cash crops in the poor region. Belize cacao becomes the main ingredient in Cadbury's premium chocolate bar, Mayan Gold. By photographer Todd Shapera
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  • Photos from Todd Shapera book<br /> Indigenous Belize - documenting Mayan villages in southern Belize By photographer Todd Shapera
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  • Photos from Todd Shapera book<br /> Indigenous Belize - documenting Mayan villages in southern Belize By photographer Todd Shapera
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  • Smiling girl in her home in traditional Mayan village of Midway, in southen Belize. By photographer Todd Shapera
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  • A father lifts daughter outside his home in Crique Sarco village in southern Belize. He is the town judge handling small claims. It is a traditional Mayan village. By photographer Todd Shapera
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  • A thatched hut and chickens in the field in the village of Crique Sarco, southern Belize. By photographer Todd Shapera
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  • A father and baby play ojn the wood steps of their thatchted-roof home in the traditional Mayan village of Crique Sarco, Belize By photographer Todd Shapera
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