The Ngobe-Bugle indigenous people turn to tourism to show and preserve their culture
epa10829144 An indigenous woman shakes small branches with water for visitors entering her house in the canton of Coto Brus, province of Puntarenas, Costa Rica, 27 August 2023 (issued 30 August 2023). A traditional ritual with smoke and purified water allows visitors to enter the forest or houses in the Ngobe-Bugle indigenous communities of southern Costa Rica, where their inhabitants are beginning to see tourism as an opportunity to showcase and preserve their culture and to generate income. EPA/Jeffrey Arguedas
