| The people who live on this farm bought the land as part of a government project to develop the south of the country. Roads were built, electricity plants were put in for free distribution of hydroelectric power, and other incentives abounded. However, few people from the north chose to gamble on the south. Perhaps they were correct in waiting. Within the project's first year, the roads had washed away with the annual rains, and what infrastructure had been built was abandoned outside of the towns. The people who had chosen to move to the south with the program felt abandoned and bitter. At this farm, supplies are flown in and out by their own personal plane, as the only other method of transportation is by a weeklong journey downstream in a bongo. Besides raising cattle and fruit orchards, the family raises money by bringing tourists to their farm in their plane. The guests sleep in hammocks on the lawn, or especially when it rains, in the guest hammock house - the circular building in the upper right. |
