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Panama's newest export

Panama’s latest export: remittances
January 20, 2012 by Ron Buchanan

www.beyondbrics.com

Forget the wide-brimmed white hats that Panama is synonymous with. The country’s latest export? Remittances.

 

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Humor: The Darwin Awards

  This was sent in by my brother Dan.

The 2011 Darwin Awards are out!! Yes, it's that magical time of year
> again when the Darwin Awards are bestowed, honoring the least evolved
> among us.
>
> Here is the glorious winner:

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Preventing e-mail hijacking

 To prevent hackers from hijacking your e-mail list, add a new entry - the very first address: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

The hackers robots will spin their wheels trying to send a message to the first address - never getting past it to the rest of your list. Roberto

 

New York Times names Panama #1

 The NYT names Panama the # 1 must-see destination in the world.

The naming of Panama in an article for The New York Times (www.nytimes.com) as the number one choice from a list of 45 places to visit this year, has the tourism sector celebrating.

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On December 21, 2011 Panama welcomed it's two millionth tourist of the year - a new record.

 

In other news, Matt Lauer profiled Panama on The Today Show, saying that Panama was an underrated vacation paradise (see the video): 

 

Two exciting new places of interest to visit

History, anthropology, botany - and hugging monkeys!

Here are two exciting places you may want to visit. One is called The Alouatta Lodge - it is a monkey sanctuary and plant nursery out near Boca Chica.

A couple (from Europe) have propagated over 8,000 exotic plants on 40 acres of property on the mountainside. 

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Good example of a Brain Study: If you can read this you have a strong mind:

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Where did you stay in Costa Rica?

 I few readers have asked how my brother and I did the border crossing into Costa Rica and where we stayed.

Our intent was to drive across, having just spent weeks getting all the paperwork done to register the car, get the new plates, etc, etc, etc.

Of course, that was not to be.

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Impolite questions (Humor)

This was sent in by my dad in Ontario. Roberto


Mother's Driver's License

A mother is driving her little girl to her friend's house for
a play date.

'Mommy ,' the little girl asks, 'how old are you?'

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Panama has better fishing than Costa Rica

The jury is in: Panama has better sport fishing than Costa Rica.

  Lance landed a five pound AND a seven pound Sierra mackarel. I landed a bizarre looking Mexican crocodile needlefish. Adore Fishing Charters, Santa Clara beach. 

The deciding factors include my own personal experience, but more convincingly - comments by three different fishing guides in Costa Rica (each with over 20 years fishing-guide experience) who asked separately why we would come from Panama to Costa Rica to fish, when the fishing was so much better in Panama!!!

Long-term readers may recall my extrodinary fishing experience at Tropic Star Lodge in Panama's Pacific coast/ Darien jungle region, and my brother's fishing sucess here at Santa Clara beach.

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Where should I stay in Panama City?

 This request came from friends of freinds from Ontario. Roberto 

Hi Rob and Yolanda
Trent and I are friends of Bruce and Melody from Demorestville. I met you a couple of times in Prince Edward County and hoping to see you on our vacation in Panama at their hacienda. They directed us to your website in hopes we could get some info on where to stay for our last 2 nights in Panama. 

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