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Get Blog Posts As EmailsAs a result of the global recession, there are many good deals available for apartments in Panama City. You can read more about it here.
Rent Prices Falling in Panama City
December 3rd, 2009 by David
El Valle de Anton
November 30th, 2009 by DavidA 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 offers bird [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Machetes
November 4th, 2009 by DavidOne of my first moments of culture shock in Panama happened when I went to buy my first machete. Machetes are necessary tools in Latin America, utilized for lawn mowing, coconut opening, bushwhacking, snake killing and a variety of other uses. For me, they had always conjured the image of a precarious weapon that had [...]
Canal Expansion
October 28th, 2009 by DavidSince its inception, Panama has been known as the crossroads of the western world. As a land-route bottleneck from North and Central America to South America, and with the canal passing through this isthmus, Panama factors into world trade as a crucial point in world economics. As such, Panama has been subjected to the growth [...]
Baseball
October 23rd, 2009 by DavidAlthough Latin American countries have always been known as soccer aficionados, Panama has long since been eliminated from World Cup contention and in recent memory has not amounted to much of a force. One reason why the hype of futbol has never quite taken off in Panama quite like in neighboring Colombia or Costa Rica [...]
La Pollera
October 8th, 2009 by DavidIt is said that when a certain plants are brought to non-native lands their fruits subtly change characteristics in the new earth depending on the soil. In the case of the pollera (pronounced poy-AIR-ah), the national dress of Panama, this has also been the case. Flowing with ornate flower print ruffles and crowned with baroque [...]
Sustainable Forestry Solutions
October 1st, 2009 by DavidLast week I discussed some of the deforestation that is happening throughout Panama. The depletion of rainforest is a very real problem with powerful socioeconomic repercussions. For instance, the deforestation of the Darien Jungle would open passage by land from Colombia, and all of South America, through Panama all the way to Alaska via the [...]
Deforestation
September 23rd, 2009 by DavidThe provinces of Los Santos and Herrera are considered the heartland of Panama. Many Panamanians trace their roots to these strongholds of Spanish settlement. It is in these areas where ranchers and cowboys tend to their cattle, where the best tipico music and food originate, where some of the greatest sense of national pride is [...]