Martina in front of cayuco factory

This isn't even the longest of the boats you see...the cayuco we rode to Wekso was far longer. The trees these boats are made from, Josh tells me, can get as large in width and height as Sequoias, but not in mass.

Wekso Rainforest Ecolodge - La Amistad

August 16th 2006
So like I said in the last blog, Josh and I wanted to go to the rainforest in Panama (especially since we didn't have time to do so in Ecuador). We had read about a place called Wekso, which is an ecolodge on the mainland deep in the rainforest and within hiking distance of the Parque Nacional La Amistad - one of the few places on earth that is still considered somewhat unexplored. We made arran ... read more

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With US backing, Panama seceded from Colombia in 1903 and promptly signed a treaty with the US allowing for the construction of a canal and US sovereignty over a strip of land on either side of the structure (the Panama Canal Zone). The Panama Canal ... ... read more

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