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SALT FLATS – Making salt from the sea
Salt production in Panama is largely a manual labor job. Salt flats, where salt is extracted from sea water, are mostly located along...
Sue Makinen and Kathleen Howard
Mar 30, 20222 min read
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New Year Muñecos -- effigies or dolls (Click for full story)
#azuero, #panama, #munecos, #LosSantos, #traditions This is sort of the Panama version of New Years resolutions. Except that they create...
Sue Makinen and Kathleen Howard
Dec 26, 20211 min read
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How Sweet It Is - Small farm sugar cane processing (Click for full story)
#Azuero, #Panama, #SugarCane,#LosSantosProvince On one of our forays around the Azuero peninsula, we traveled through the tiny town of...
Sue Makinen and Kathleen Howard
Oct 7, 20212 min read
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A Tale of Two Carvers
This is a happy story of the mixing of two different nationalities (Canadian and Panamanian) both with a love of carving. The Panamanian...
Sue Makinen and Kathleen Howard
May 1, 20213 min read
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The Hidden Zoo - Azuero Backroads Discoveries visits La Laguna,Los Santos, Panama (click for story)
La Laguna is a quaint little town on the main highway between Las Tablas and Pedasi. Don’t blink or before you realize you will have...
Sue Makinen and Kathleen Howard
Feb 15, 20213 min read
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Orchid Heaven - Villa Mama Tala (click for full story)
Tucked away in the small town of Los Olivos on the road between La Villa and Macaracas is an amazing man whose passion is orchids. His...
Sue Makinen and Kathleen Howard
Oct 18, 20202 min read
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Paritilla, Los Santos, Panama (click for full story)
For the first stop on our Azuero Backroad Discoveries journey we have chosen the small town of Paritilla, a corregimiento (township) in...
Sue Makinen and Kathleen Howard
Sep 13, 20203 min read
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