Place to see: San Blas Islands, El Porvenir, Panama
Kuna Fisherman
This Kuna fisherman sold his catch of the day to us. Later on that day we BBQ-ed the fish on one of the nearby islands together with this guy.
About this place:
The islands of the San Blas Archipelago are strung out along the Caribbean coast of Panama from the Golfo de San Blas nearly all the way to the Colombian border. San Blas is a series of hundreds of islands of which only 49 are inhabited by the fiercely independent Kuna Indians. According to the Kuna there are exactly 365 islands, one for every day of the week.
San Blas is famous for one of its arts and crafts, the mola. Kuna women make rainbow colored fabrics, emblazoned with fish, birds, jungle animals and geometric designs that would impress Picasso himself. The men still fish from canoes as they did before Columbus came. They still run up to the corner coconut palm trees for something fresh and cool to drink each morning, just as they have for untold centuries.
El Porvenir, Provincia de Colón, PA
Discovered by Gijs Bekenkamp
on 7 January 2008.
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