Island Life of the Kuna _2466
This is the most populated of the San Blas islands. It may go by several names: Congreja Island, Carti sugtupu, Gardi Sugdub, and near Islas Carti and Carti Tupile. On our way back to the mainland Panama we had a stop here for a quick tour. Unfortunately I had left my camera on the boat thinking that photography wasn't allowed. I was wrong but it was too late to return to the boat and catch up with our group. Through it's muddy walkways we visited a school, church and passed many folks doing odd chores, children playing and life generally carrying on as it had for many years.
The San Blas islands are a group of islands in the archipelago de San Blas, located in the Northwest of Panama facing the Caribbean Sea. There are 378 islands within the archipelago and they are scattered around in an area of about 100 square miles. If you leave the Golfo de San Blas by boat you will enter the Caribbean Sea. The majority of the 378 islands have no inhabitants, but on the larger ones you will find the gentle native people known as the Kuna’s. These people can be found on the larger inhabited Islands; Aguja Island, Guanidup Island, Chichimei, Yandup Island and El Porvenir. You may ask yourself What is san blas? San Blas is an autonomous territory in Panama formally called Kuna Yala. sanblas-islands.com
Island Life of the Kuna _2466
This is the most populated of the San Blas islands. It may go by several names: Congreja Island, Carti sugtupu, Gardi Sugdub, and near Islas Carti and Carti Tupile. On our way back to the mainland Panama we had a stop here for a quick tour. Unfortunately I had left my camera on the boat thinking that photography wasn't allowed. I was wrong but it was too late to return to the boat and catch up with our group. Through it's muddy walkways we visited a school, church and passed many folks doing odd chores, children playing and life generally carrying on as it had for many years.
The San Blas islands are a group of islands in the archipelago de San Blas, located in the Northwest of Panama facing the Caribbean Sea. There are 378 islands within the archipelago and they are scattered around in an area of about 100 square miles. If you leave the Golfo de San Blas by boat you will enter the Caribbean Sea. The majority of the 378 islands have no inhabitants, but on the larger ones you will find the gentle native people known as the Kuna’s. These people can be found on the larger inhabited Islands; Aguja Island, Guanidup Island, Chichimei, Yandup Island and El Porvenir. You may ask yourself What is san blas? San Blas is an autonomous territory in Panama formally called Kuna Yala. sanblas-islands.com