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Find Us On FacebookA popular weekend getaway for urbanites in Panama City is an escape to the verdant forests and steep mountains of El Valle. Located an hour and a half to the west of Panama City, El Valle is a small mountain village within the crater of an extinct volcano. With innumerable trails, El Valle [...]
El Valle de Anton
November 30th, 2009 by David
Adventure Travelers Find Answers in Remote Corners of the World
November 29th, 2009 by FrancesI first found the Chicago Adventure Travel Examiner on Twitter as @travelingted. After a while I subscribed to his RSS feed, where I read this:
Bigfoot and Ivory Billed Woodpecker Searches captivate adventure travelers
“Bigfoot and the ivory-billed woodpecker searches captivate adventure travelers. This begs the question why do people adventure travel in the first place? The [...]
Down With the Brand
November 19th, 2009 by JerrodHotel franchising dates back to the early 20th century when developer of a hotel in Boston asked Cesar Ritz to use the names of his two famous European hotels: The Ritz in Paris and The Carlton in London (side-note: the Ritz-Carlton brand as we know it really didn’t take off and expand until the 1980’s [...]
Ceviche
November 18th, 2009 by DavidI’m going to steal a blog tactic from Frances’ affinity for recipes and contribute one of my own, ceviche (say-vee-chey). Ceviche is a popular Spanish-world seafood dish. It is often sold as an appetizer or a snack. It can be composed of most fin fish, generally delicate white fish like seabass or red snapper. It [...]
Press Release — Backpackers Pave the Way for a Wide Variety of Tourists to Flock to Panama’s Gulf of Chiriqui
November 16th, 2009 by FrancesCHICAGO, Nov. 16, 2009 — Panama’s Gulf of Chiriqui is so wild and unspoiled it draws the most adventurous souls to its lush wilderness. Destinations such as Coiba National Marine Park, a UNESCO World Heritage site, and Parque Nacional Marino Golfo de Chiriqui have coaxed trailblazing nature-lovers and water-sport enthusiasts to the area for years, [...]
Pelican Brief
November 13th, 2009 by FrancesYesterday the U.S. Department of the Interior took the Brown Pelican off the endangered species list, as you can read in the New York Times or on nature.com. Thanks to a ban on DDT in the 1970s, this bird’s is on the way back.
The Brown Pelican is a familiar neighbor around Isla Palenque. They’re interesting [...]
Bamboozled
November 12th, 2009 by BenThe WSJ journal has an article today about the sustainability of bamboo clothing; as it turns out, bamboo clothing really isn’t sustainable once you factor in all the chemicals and processing involved in its production, and claims that it is are probably close to fraudulent. One of these days I might get around to blogging [...]
Fun with GIS
November 12th, 2009 by BenJerrod wrote an entry back in July about walking the proposed road that had been staked for us by our topographers. Walking it, and understanding the topography of the area as well as Design Workshops’s intent, I was suspicious that the stakes weren’t quite where they were supposed to be. That, combined with a few [...]
La Chorcha Waterfall
November 11th, 2009 by DavidMeandering along the Inter-American highway in Panama from the city of David to Boca Chica, the closest port village to Isla Palenque, one has the opportunity to take in the ambiance of the Chiriqui Province. There are always street side vendors selling red snapper, oranges in large bags and other produce from nearby markets. Some [...]
ULI Sets Goals for Future Resort Developments
November 6th, 2009 by FrancesGreat article by Robert Krueger on the Urban Land Institute blog, about what resorts will look like in the future. Dare we suggest that we resemble that remark? Well, we do.
By the way, this article quotes Rebecca Zimmerman of Design Workshop, our site planners for Isla Palenque. Read it here: blog.
In case you aren’t up [...]