Life Nomadic: The Pan Panama Road Trip Begins!

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Entertaining start!

If you're still curious about chocolate production after your Almirante visit, consider visiting Green Acres, a small cacao farm run by two very nice American expats on the islands (ask arond in Bocas about them -- they don't like to advertise much).

After you're done with the islands of Bocas, I'd recommend a trip up the Rio Teribe on the Bocas mainland to visit the Naso, one of Panama's smallest surviving indigenous nations -- only about 3,800 of them are left. It's beautiful country, the people are kind and fascinating and the Naso are at a pivotal time in their history: construction of a dam threatens their survival and has divided the community. It'd be a memorable trip and make for great video.

Two Naso-run groups operate trips up there. Check them out at www.soposo.com and http://www.bocas.com/odesen/odesnaso.htm.

(By the way, a minor correction to your earlier Panama post. Panamanian Spanish does not have a reputation for being exceptionally clear -- it has a reputation for being exceptionally "dirty," with dropped syllables, coarse expressions and rapid-fire delivery. If you're picking it up fast, that's a testament to you, not to the local idiom! If you want to hear clear Spanish, go to Colombia, which is widely admired for clarity. Even native Spanish speakers have a hard time following Panamanian Spanish at times.)

Feel free to contact me through my website, www.panamaguidebooks.com, or through Twitter (@panamaguide) if you like.

Happy travels!

-Bill

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