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Don´t Stand, Sit or Camp Under the Coconut Tree

Thursday, January 18th, 2007

Over Christmas week I did a kayak trip with Explorer´s Corner of Berkeley to the San Blas Archipelago in Panama. It seems like a lifetime ago (Bacu and modern Panama City and Colombia have made it more dreamlike than real) that I visited paradise. The archipelago is part of Kuna Yala – an autonomous district of Panama´s Caribbean coast populated soley with the Kuna indigenous people. Kuna Yala contains 350+ small, coconut-covered sand islands as well as a swath of the mainland. About 50,000 Kunas live there.

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Let’s Get Wild

Friday, December 22nd, 2006

I went to Tikal, Guatemala after Lake Atitlan and had a fantastic couple of days exploring the Mayan ruins and surrounding jungle.  I flew from Guatemala City to Flores early one morning and did the return flight the following day in the late afternoon.  Numerous people suggested staying overnight in the park rather than Flores area which is about one hour away and they were absolutely right.  Most of the visitors to the park come by bus and they are only there from 9-10 AM until 3 PM.  By staying in the park for a night, you get to explore after the crowds leave the first day and before they arrive the next.  I also found that the crowds follow the normal herd mentality and the park is quite quiet outside of the central plaza during the peak hours. 

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