{"id":8583,"date":"2013-09-24T13:21:16","date_gmt":"2013-09-24T18:21:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/panamaadvisoryinternationalgroup.com\/blog\/?p=8583"},"modified":"2013-09-24T13:21:16","modified_gmt":"2013-09-24T18:21:16","slug":"coast-along-in-panama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/panamaadvisoryinternationalgroup.com\/blog\/coast-along-in-panama\/","title":{"rendered":"Coast along in Panama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/panamaadvisoryinternationalgroup.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/gamboa-lake.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-8584\" title=\"gamboa lake\" src=\"http:\/\/panamaadvisoryinternationalgroup.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/gamboa-lake-1024x750.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"687\" height=\"497\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here is a great story by Mick Webb, a travel journalist who recently visited Panama and toured many of it&#8217;s natural wonders.<\/p>\n<p class=\"subtitle\">Five hundred years ago, the Spanish conquistador  Vasco N\u00fa\u00f1ez de Balboa discovered the Pacific Ocean on a cross-country  journey from the Atlantic. Mick Webb follows in his oar strokes<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"storyTop \"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p>A stroll through the rainforest is no walk in the park, even when a  decent track makes a machete surplus to requirements. It&#8217;s not just the  energy-sapping humidity that makes every step an effort, or the clouds  of insects. Your senses are also constantly assailed by strange sounds,  vivid colours and, if you are with a guide like Victor, a stream of  information.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;See that leaf?&#8221; he asked. &#8220;Touch it. No, not that one, it&#8217;s  poisonous! This one.&#8221; I tentatively touched the delicate fern-like leaf,  which immediately folded itself up as though trying to escape. &#8220;It&#8217;s  called the shameful plant because it hates being touched \u2013 it&#8217;s a  defence mechanism.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A loud roar interrupted his spiel. &#8220;What do you think that is?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A puma?&#8221; I suggested, peering into the dense undergrowth.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;No,  it&#8217;s a howler monkey!&#8221; At least a kilometre away, Victor reckoned,  although it sounded as if it were right beside us. It&#8217;s the world&#8217;s  loudest land animal.<\/p>\n<p>We were on the Pipeline Road, a 17km path  through Panama&#8217;s Parque de Soberan\u00eda. Built to service an oil pipeline  during the Second World War, it&#8217;s now one of a series of walking trails  through the corridor of green spaces that cross the isthmus and is home  to some of the country&#8217;s exuberant wildlife. This particular path is a  renowned bird-spotters&#8217; beat, where the Panamanian Audubon Society once  recorded more than 500 species over a 24-hour period. Victor and I only  managed three, although one was an iridescent beauty, the blue-crowned  motmot. An approaching tropical rainstorm had encouraged most birds to  stay, sensibly, in the shelter of the enormous trees. The wildlife may  not have been teeming but the rain soon was, sending us sprinting for  the van and the half-hour drive back to Gamboa, the nearest town.<\/p>\n<p>Beside  the Panama Canal, halfway between Panama City on the Pacific and Col\u00f3n  on the Atlantic, Gamboa is made up of neat rows of wooden houses,  untypical of the rest of Panama, which were built for American personnel  working on the canal during its many years under US control. From the  Gamboa Resort Hotel you can take an excursion by boat to Gat\u00fan Lake,  which forms the central section of the world&#8217;s most important aqueous  shortcut \u2013 which celebrates its centenary next year \u2013 and is a wildlife  reserve in its own right. I saw crocodiles, snail kites and visited an  island inhabited by a white-faced capuchin monkey, who&#8217;d been christened  &#8220;Seventy Eight&#8221; after the number on the nearest canal marker buoy.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/panamaadvisoryinternationalgroup.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/gatun-lake.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-8586\" title=\"gatun lake\" src=\"http:\/\/panamaadvisoryinternationalgroup.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/gatun-lake-1024x752.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"684\" height=\"502\" srcset=\"https:\/\/panamaadvisoryinternationalgroup.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/gatun-lake-1024x752.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/panamaadvisoryinternationalgroup.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/gatun-lake-300x220.jpg 300w, https:\/\/panamaadvisoryinternationalgroup.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/gatun-lake.jpg 1194w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 684px) 100vw, 684px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The  search for routes across the Panamanian isthmus \u2013 Central America&#8217;s  narrowest nation and the dividing line between the Pacific and Atlantic  oceans \u2013 has a long history that stretches well beyond the Panama Canal.  In the 16th century, the Spaniards needed a way of transporting the  gold and silver looted from the Pacific territories of South America  over to the Caribbean coast, where they could load it onto ships bound  for Spain. The Camino Real (the Royal Road) was the first of these  routes; it was a demanding trek, particularly in the rainy season with  heavily laden mules. You can walk on vestiges of it today as part of an  adventurous eight-day hike from Panama City to Portobelo, whose  impressive fortifications hint at a dramatic imperial past. The Camino  Real was eventually replaced by an easier route, the Camino de Cruces, a  10km stretch of which passes through the Parque de Soberan\u00eda.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/panamaadvisoryinternationalgroup.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/portobello.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-8585\" title=\"portobello\" src=\"http:\/\/panamaadvisoryinternationalgroup.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/portobello-1024x786.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"682\" height=\"523\" srcset=\"https:\/\/panamaadvisoryinternationalgroup.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/portobello-1024x786.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/panamaadvisoryinternationalgroup.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/portobello-300x230.jpg 300w, https:\/\/panamaadvisoryinternationalgroup.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/portobello.jpg 1158w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 682px) 100vw, 682px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The  man who paved the way for the later crossings was the Spanish  conquistador, Vasco N\u00fa\u00f1ez de Balboa. In 1513, he set out to explore the  daunting landscapes of jungle and swamps that are now part of the  Dari\u00e9n, Panama&#8217;s wildest province, bordering Colombia. Guided by locals,  on 25 or 27 September (the actual date is disputed), Balboa became the  first European to set eyes on the Pacific Ocean, which he named the  South Sea after the direction they&#8217;d travelled in, and duly claimed for  the Spanish crown. The event was recalled in a famous poem by John  Keats: &#8220;On first looking into Chapman&#8217;s Homer&#8221;. Unfortunately Keats  credited the wrong conquistador with the momentous discovery: &#8220;Like  stout Cortez when with eagle eyes he star&#8217;d at the Pacific&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Balboa&#8217;s  route across the isthmus has never been accurately charted and even  today the Dari\u00e9n is only visited by the most adventurous travellers.  It&#8217;s an 80km by 50km stretch of jungle without roads, which the  activities of paramilitary groups and drug smugglers have made into a  virtual no-go area. However, the Caribbean coast where Balboa began his  journey is more accessible to visitors. It&#8217;s the territory of the Guna  Yala people, who occupy a narrow strip of the mainland along the shore,  as well as an astonishing array of more than 350 palm-covered San Blas  islands.<\/p>\n<p>You can visit the archipelago by plane, but I&#8217;d travelled  overland from Panama City, a cross-country drive of two-and-a-half  hours to the closest coastal settlement, Carti, and then a short boat  trip to Isla Aguja, Needle Island. As their income from coconuts and  lobster-fishing has declined, the Guna Yala are turning to tourism. They  sell colourful patterned textiles called molas, sewn onto blouses.<\/p>\n<p>Rustic  would be a fair description of the six cabins that comprised the  accommodation there, but once the door had been put back on my hut and  I&#8217;d evicted a couple of hermit crabs, it looked comfortable enough.  After snorkelling among the coral off one of the many uninhabited  islands, it was time for a lunch of red snapper, caught that morning,  and coconut rice, on tiny Devil Island. The afternoon brought more  snorkelling and a visit to one of the larger, densely inhabited islands,  then I made my way back to Isla Aguj to watch the sun sinking slowly  behind the palm trees into the waveless Caribbean \u2013 and to raise a glass  to Vasco N\u00fa\u00f1ez de Balboa.<\/p>\n<p>His own return to this shore after the  historic expedition did not bring happiness and acclaim. Political  jealousies and rivalries led to accusations of treachery against him and  a few years later he was executed. 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