Destinations in Central America:
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When West Africans on their way to the New World’s slave markets escaped in 1635, they intermarried with Caribbean islanders to create a new and distinct culture.
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In the small indigenous territory of Guna Yala off Panama’s eastern coast, a flourishing ‘third gender’ community is defying stereotypes – and venerating women.
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The hard-drinking, heavy-smoking deity, San Simón, brings hope to impoverished citizens and criminal gangs in Central America.
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Panama’s indigenous Guna tribe have called San Blas home for hundreds of years. But the entire idyllic archipelago is at risk of being underwater within a matter of decades.
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Sharks are probably not the first things that come to mind when you think of romance, but it was hundreds of hammerheads that brought this unlikely couple together.
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With venomous snakes and shark-infested waters, this desert island had no hope of escape.
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The controversial Nicaragua canal, dubbed the largest engineering project in history, is forcing a small, sleepy community into the spotlight.
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The solid, geometric rock produced from Panama’s last volcanic eruption makes the district of Boquete an ideal destination for rock climbers.
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