It was tourism day for us, off to Gamboa with an expedition to the Embera-Woonaan Indian Tribal area. Now we are not big on tourista things but what the hey, wanted to culture ourselves a little. This was a 3 hour tour (hmmmm sounds like a Gilligan redux) that took us through the Gamboa rain forest, pretty interesting stuff. First off we headed to the Panama Canal to cruise through the canal for a while and stop off to feed some monkeys. Plus, seeing those large container ships is something to behold, commerce at its finest.
Back through the Chagres River to the Indian village where we were greeted by the youngsters and entered their village and met the whole gang. Actually no Embera were around today, we were greeted by Woonaan's who actually hail from Columbia (made sense to me as Panama was once part of Columbia). Here's what Wikipedia says about the tribes http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embera-Wounaan.
Here's our day in pictures...
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