FLOWAS is….
a cliché:
the one about a taste of paradise in a different Caribbean (but it
IS a taste of paradise in a
different Caribbean!!)
a pleasure:
good place, good food, good music, good people, good
vibes
a meditation:
contemplation, fusion and identification with an
splendid Nature
a getaway:
a place to disconnect from the World and to connect
with Life
a challenge:
to have you have a perfect time
We
are also a little beachfront hotel in Livingston,
Guatemala,
with 4 traditional wooden bungalows with thached roof, private bathroom, and
a terrace with a sea view. Our
total capacity is for 15 guests, so that we can ensure you an exclusive and
persolaized attention.
There is a restaurant especializing in traditional Garifuna and
Mediterranean
cuisines. It is the perfect place to relax, read, swimm, dream, walk, kayak,
sail, paint, write, take photographs, create, love, observe (birds, iguanas,
and other fauna, sunsets, sea waves, stars…with a bit of luck, even dolphins
and manatees) and interact interculturally.
Our weird name has a very simple explanation. Formerly, the land belonged to
a family of Jamaican origin by the name of Flores. The locals slowly transformed the name Flores into Flowers, due the Jamaican link, and by effect
of the Garifuna phonetics, it ended up sounding more like Flowas. Up to some
twenty years ago, when there was no running water in
Livingston’s households, many women from the community used to
wash their laundry in the by then river (today, stream) that borders one
side of our perimeter. The children came along with their moms and played
and swimmed while these did their laundry. “Going to Flowas” used to be then
a happy and special event for many.
Thus we kept its original name: Flowas.
