Parque Internacional La Amistad

Farmers who were already in the park were grandfathered in and allowed to keep farming. The problem is that nobody enforces legislation, meaning that their lands aren’t being monitored, and the farmers can easily overtake park land. The problem is that most of these farmers don’t know anything besides slash-and-burn techniques, which degrades the land [...]

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Flight to David

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Sleeping Porch in Panama

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Looking for the Resplendent Quetzal

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Restaurante ASAELA

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Los Quetzales, Our Hotel in Cerro Punta

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Leafcutter Ants Near Pipeline Road, Panama

Extreme closeup:

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Panama: Day Three, Afternoon

Day Three. 18 September 2007.
Wow, am I only on day three? I think I could keep writing about this trip forever. (I shouldn’t tempt fate, because once I have to start writing and revising this for work, I really will be writing about this forever).
After our brief hike into PILA, we headed partway back down [...]

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Panama: Day Three, Morning

Day Three. 18 September 2007.
Our departure from Gamboa to the regional airport was early so that we could catch the 8:15am flight, the earliest of the day—which apparently meant that it could leave at 8:15 or anytime thereafter. By taking the earliest flight, padding our itinerary, and hoping for the best, we were able to [...]

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We Interrupt this Travelogue for a Sob Story

I forgot to mention a very sad thing that happened as soon as I hit Panama: my digital camera broke. I’d taken my mom’s digital camera with me, because it holds 500+ high quality pictures (as opposed to my camera, which is three times larger but holds only 50 high quality pictures). Something was wrong [...]

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