(Huffinton Post) To be honest, all I ever really even KNEW about Panama was that it had a canal that connected the north and south seas, otherwise known as the Atlantic and the Pacific Oceans. It has been on the horizon as the "next IT spot" to go travel mainly because of the massive expansion project of the Panama Canal completed last year on their centennial … [Read more...]
2015 Panama International Film Festival
The fourth edition of the Panama International Film Festival will be held from April 9 to April 15, 2015. Here are the films that will be shown: For the locations click here. Ibero-american Feature Debuts Be among the first to discover Latin America’s most dynamic emerging directorial voices in this program of first and second features from a selection of … [Read more...]
Panama a rising ecological star
(Circle of Blue) The Spanish explorer Vasco Núñez de Balboa was so inspired by Christopher Columbus’s four voyages to the New World, including Columbus’s last trip to Central America in 1502, that Balboa undertook his own expedition. In 1510, Balboa and his men set ashore in the Caribbean rainforest near present-day Colombia and established Santa María la Antigua del Darién, … [Read more...]
Panama inaugurates Frank Gehry-designed museum
(The Big Story) After years of delays, Panama has inaugurated a museum designed by world-renowned architect Frank Gehry that officials hope will become a cultural landmark and symbolize the country's recent economic ascent. The Biomuseo at the Pacific Ocean gateway to the Panama Canal celebrates the isthmus' history not as a crossroads of trade but as one of the world's … [Read more...]
Plants and animals protected along Panama Canal Expansion
(Miami Herald) Rocks and earth aren’t the only things being moved around during the mega-project to expand the Panama Canal. Animals, birds and even a few insects — rare ones — have been trapped and relocated before the excavators and earth-moving equipment arrive. Thousands of seedlings also have been planted in communities around Panama to take the place of trees that were … [Read more...]