Panama City, Panama.
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Showing posts with label Panama City. Show all posts
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Monday, September 20, 2010
First meeting with a tribe
7/28/10
The places that La Ruta set up for us to sleep at was different every time. Some times it would be a college or school dorm, military base, field to camp in, or a sport complex. This time it was a sport complex in Panama.
The first place that the Panamanian Tourism Authority took us was to meet a tribe of the Embera ethnic. When we got there the tribe members pick us in these long canoes that fit about 12 people including two tribe members. These canoes they make them self our of a trees that they cut, carve out, and add a power motor.
The first place the tribe took us was a stream that ended at the main river. We had to hike next to this stream to a water fall were we could swim in. As we walked we found out the stream wasn't really a stream but a small river and we would have to walk on rocks and cross the river a few times that was also really rocky. We all took off our shoes so we wouldn't get them wet but the rock were really sharp and hurt our feet. The tribe members had no shoes on the whole day and were not effected at all by the rocks, I guess from living there and walking on these rocks from birth.
After a nice dip in the waterfall we hoped back in the canoes and they took us to were they lived. The way they drive the canoes is that one of them is in the back steering the motor and another in the front that has a long pole that he would keep the canoe away from the shallow areas of the river.
When we got the area were they live at we was greeted by the female and kids of the tribe as well as the elders playing music. When we was there they played music, feed us, explain about their day to to day activities, and dance typical dances for us. When this was done we had time to talk to them and buy some souvenirs that they make.
I had a strange experience right after I got this shot. I seen this little girl standing there and it look so much like an Arnold Newman shot I had to take it. As I'm shooting I realized that there was someone looking at me out of the corner of the door. This made the shot perfect. So I walk up to them to show them the shot since I was so happy with it and as I'm showing them the mother grabs the two little girls and runs inside with them. When I looked around the reason they had run away was because a male tribe member was coming. 
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Tuesday, September 14, 2010
Start of La Ruta Inka and great Panamanian dances 7/27/10
The main reason I went on this trip is because I was told about a group named La Ruta Inka. The point of La Ruta Inka is to backpack through South America and meet with Inca and native tribes so that the participants can go back to were they are from and explain about what they have learned and give more awareness of these cultures. But this year they had two routes one that started in Bolivia and ended in Colombia that was about Inca culture and the second was from Panama to Guatemala this one on the Mayan culture, this is the one I participated in. Participants come from all over the world, in our part the countries that were there was Spain, Poland, Belgium, Sweden, Germany, England, Holland, Italy, France, US, Mexico, Panama, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia(if I forgot a country, I'm sorry).
We had to meet up for the first time at the University of Panama. Here we got greeted by the university and the tourism department of Panama and also got to know each other as we waiting for every one to get there and they got the events they had plan for us ready. They had tons of native dances and live music dancing. At the end the dancers went into the crowd and started to dance with us. After they feed us they took us to were we were going to sleep, that was a sport complex with multi bed dorms.
Monday, September 13, 2010
Back from a great trip through Central America
Hello there everyone I haven't written anything in a long time because I was out of the US on a backpacking trip through Central America. I thought that I would be able to do posting as I went on my trip but it wasn't that easy, most of the time I wasn't able to get any Internet. So now that I am back in the states I will try my best to add a posting every day of a day on the trip.
That First day I went to El Casco Viejo, that is the area of Panama City that is the historical part; the oldest part. The first thing that stood out to me was that there were a lot of women with color full dresses on and their hair covered. After asking why was they dressed I found out that they were ingenuous people and that is their typical attire.
On 7/26/10 I left from New York City to Panama were I started my backpacking trip. The first place I stayed at was Hostel Panama by Luis. It was a very nice place, very comfortable and in a very safe area of the city.
Hostel Panama by Luis
There were a lot of little parks through out this area and I was really interested with the people just hanging out there.
I tried to do some shots with lighting with two Canon speed lights, didn't get anything I liked but hey at lest I was trying.
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