Hello Tanya! It totally was an adventure! I will be writing more on the Wiwa for sure during my next visit to them, but that will be some months away. I am heading to Izmir, Ephesus, and Izmir, Turkey in three weeks and will be writing several articles on those locations.

The way the Wiwa connect with outsiders is largely through the times when they leave their tribe for further schooling, university. The friends I was with had gone to University in Cartagena, so they spoke Spanish and had more exposure to outsiders. Others we were with spoke no Spanish at all, only the Wiwa language.

Their religious beliefs are very old and traditional. It is largely animism and a form of Shamanism, though with their own cultural slants of course. They are a people group that has strongly resisted all outside religious influences for as long as they have been around.

Thank you for your questions, I hope that helps, and I hope you’ll check out some of my other articles and come back for more adventures!