Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On the Río Chagres motorized wooden boats are the only means of transport. Make this trip to Panama's Emberá people, and you ...

Time stands still in this village. Or does it? Parara Puru might be sheltered by the Panamanian rain forest, accessible only by dugout canoe from the Río Chagres, but the women who greet us as we ...

DARIEN NATIONAL PARK, Panama - The best example of what sets the Between Two Seas voyage apart from a typical cruise comes on day four, when the passengers step from motorized rubber rafts onto the ...

Learn about this Central American country’s ancestral Indigenous culture, and take in their spiritual connection to nature With so many seismic changes occurring all around us today, perhaps now is ...

Chief Zarco’s daughter Natalia Sarco works as an ecologist and bird-watching guide in Panama City’s Metropolitan National Park. The former Canal Zone’s 573-acre park was a site of the Albrook survival ...

Giggling, two young boys in red loincloths swim in the river, their dark hair and brown skin slick with water. They scramble onto the bow of a paragua — dugout canoe — as we idle to the shore in a ...