This year we went back to Panama. Alex was having a big reunion with the chinese side of his family and it seemed like the perfect opportunity to get away from the cold. While we were there we visited a village of Embera indians on the Chagres river. It was very cool to see how they live. Our guide was a woman from Seattle named Anne who originally went down to Panama to train animals for a film and ended up marrying one of the Embera men. She was a great guide and went above and beyond to make our trip a success.
Click here to see some pictures from our trip.
We also got to visit Alex's family in Chitre and flew out to Bocas del Toro for a couple of days. This was the only disappointing part of the trip. The idea was to go out there do some snorkeling and just hang out on the beach. Unfortunatley, it rained sideways the whole time we were there. It was so bad we had a tough time landing on the day we arrived and had to go to a nearby airport in Changuinola to wait for a break in the storm.
