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The Women of the Darien

Like Captain Adolfo and the crew of Picaflor, the Embera-Wounaan Indians are mostly a very friendly lot. They inhabit the regions surrounding the Darien Jungle and live primarily by subsistence farming, fishing, and most recently, tourism. They are also ...

Rainy Season

When you conjure up an image of the tropics, it's probably filled with bikini clad beauties and palm trees on clean sandy beaches. Or it may be snorkeling in between coral heads of turquoise water mere yards from a sun chair where a fresh plate of guacamole ...

Into the Darien

“Naked Indians!” It wasn't the most eloquent nickname, nor the most politically correct, but between ourselves that was our label for the village we were trying to find. We'd heard that there were a group of indigenous people living somewhere in the ...