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Batalla has two community tours available for visitors, which are essentially the extent of all activities in town. Trips can be arranged upon arrival or ahead of time with tour operator La Ruta Moskitia. Activity costs run from L200 to L300 per person, depending on the size of the group.
The audience becomes the performer in this hour-long experience. Visitors to Batalla can experience and participate first-hand in the lively folkloric dances and spiritual Garífuna singing, a cultural richness that is often invisible to travelers passing through. Evenings end with a buffet of traditional foods like seafood soup with conch and shrimp and pan de coco, or coconut bread.
A two- to three-hour guided excursion maneuvers passengers through the coastal wetlands and mangrove swamps. Trip goers stay on the lookout for tropical monkeys dangling from high-above perches as parrots and storks peek out from the forest. It's possible to spot an endangered Caribbean manatee gliding slowly below.
