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Travel Photography > The Isthmus
The Isthmus
The Central American Isthmus is a narrow subcontinent tying North and South America together in a land of steamy jungles, desolate coasts and rising nations. The Isthmus houses seven countries and many more cultures and languages. Join me as I explore the Central American Isthmus. |
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isthmus | January 19, 2011
The Pumilios of Salt Creek
We had been the sole guests at Al Natural Resort for three nights, but tonight, Martin had set the table for 12.
Over a glass of rum, he sits with us and talks with our toddler while evening turns to night. When the chef arrives dressed cleanly and smelling of perfume, I quietly wonder where she came from. There are no roads here, and I heard no outboard, and no canoe tie up to the dock. This part of Isla Bastimentos in the Bocas del Toro archipelago of Panama is surrounded by thick forests and mangroves.
Isla Bastimentos, Panama
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isthmus | December 16, 2010
Moonlight Ferry to Zapatilla Cays
I awake the Captain from his hammock at the edge of the dock, and we jump in the boat. The dock belongs to a small seven bungalow resort on the island of Bastimentos, where my wife, my son are asleep, and are the only guests. Bastimentos is a large island, but almost the entire island is preserved as a Panamanian National Park.
Zapatilla Cays, Panama
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isthmus | September 24, 2009
The Wise Glass Frog of El Valle de Antón
Travel can seem dual acts of nostalgia and ancestor worship, with all our package tours to museums and churches and places that seem stuck in the past. I find that what is happening now, or about to happen tomorrow, reveals more about our world than tumbled-down bricks and aged parchment.
El Valle de Anton
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isthmus | April 15, 2009
The Coconut Train to Cuero y Salado
There is a moment in all of our lives that it happens. When experience has beaten us down. When responsibility has trained us to caution above all. When our failures and losses in life finally make us bow our heads and accept the linear line of our destiny. This is the moment, I have always believed, we lose our youth.
Cuero Y Salado
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isthmus | Updated January 8, 2009
Letters from the Canopy
"Atop Panama's Soberanía jungle and near the banks of the canal, I write a series of letters to a mysterious pastor,offering a conclusion to a long debate between us about monkeys, birds and beetles in the context of science, religion, intelligent design and the importance of preservation. "
Soberania National Park, Panama
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isthmus | June
The Kuna Islands
"Their land includes both these 400 San Blas Islands stretching for 160 miles along the coast of present-day Panama, and the nearby Panama mainland with all of its mountains and jungles and fresh rivers. Their land is called the Comarca da Kuna Yala, and the Kuna live as if this is their country. Few Panamanian laws affect them. "
San Blas Islands
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isthmus | April
The Philosophy of Monkey River Town
They
are traveling long distances at age eleven, unguided, expected to make
a profit, to hitchhike with people of unknown integrity, to be able
to pay for their boat back home. They are inquisitive, polite, and comfortable
in the company of adults.
Monkey River, Belize
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isthmus | April
Old Highways of Peten
Army
and police officers in Guatemala have begun a new campaign of abuse
to cover the tracks of their past. Although from the left-wing that
supported the demands of the Indian insurgents, Portillo has been unwilling
to take steps against the new bloodshed. But all Guatemala's killings
and bombings seem silly for a country of farmers.
Peten, Guatemala
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isthmus | February
The Howling Coast
When French-born agronomist Clemente Poncon went to The World Bank for a loan to develop the Morgan's Rock property, The World Bank conducted a report, the contents of which recommended that the best solution for the property would be a golf course hotel mega-development.
Pacific Coast Nicaragua
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isthmus | February
Granada Libre
In the hotel’s small courtyard, there's these two age-ripened Canadians feeding the hotel's pet parakeets. They had lifted them onto their table, to let them peck at their butter and jam. Margaret, who was wearing a medic-alert bracelet, lit up a cigarette.
Granada, Nicaragua
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isthmus | February
Jungle in the Sky
"While the old toothless man describes the view, Ramón explains that to him, the old man sounds funny. He looks at him and laughs, and then looks back at us and whispers, “He is a country man, and his accent is very stupid to us city people. "
Mombacho Volcano, Nicaragua
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