Taboga Island Fishing Boats

Taboga, Island of Flowers, Panama

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December 22nd 2010
It's Christmas time and the Island of Taboga is enthusiastically decorated with nativity scenes for the Navidad festivities. Randomly, at all hours of the day and night, the church blasts Christmas songs from their piercingly loud sound system. From Taboga, there's a view of the sunrise with a back drop of Panama City. It looks like Miami, with towering buildings and cranes busily const ... 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