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Panama has the best rental cars |
2nd type of transportation dugout canoes |
Lodging is no problem Hotel in El Valle |
Food is no problem except when traveling in the mts. |
Off the main highway roads can be bad |
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A good road but what's around the curve? |
End of the road |
With 4 wheeldrive we did get across |
Panamerican highway to the village of Yaviza |
Yaviza |
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Road over the top |
Road ends in a pasture |
Mountains are beautiful but how do we get to the next one? |
They drive down, I walk |
Cerra Trinidad |
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Road to Cerra Azule |
Low tide |
High tide |
The trees were full of tillandsias on banks of rivers |
We came back in the dark. No lights. We ran aground. |
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Very muddy, lots of bromeliads |
Traveling in the Darien Forest |
Everyone travels by canoe |
Entering the Darien Forest |
Asking directions |
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Slash and Burn |
Revolting |
Very friendly folks |
Start of a new subdivision in mountain |
New road in subdivision. Lots of bromeliads. |
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Poisonous snakes can be a problem |
Coral snake |
They even come out of bromeliads in hotel room |
Forests are full of flowering plants. Not many bromeliads. |
Passion Vine |
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Heliconia wagneriana |
Heliconia |
Philodendrum |
Musa veluliana |
Panama - Bromeliads in Habitat
| Aechmea allenii | Aechmea dactylina | Aechmea magdalenae | ||
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| Aechmea pubescens | Aechmea strobilina | Catopsis pisiformis | ||
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| Guzmania donnell-smithii |
Guzmania lingulata var. minor |
Guzmania musaica | |
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| Guzmania spectabilis | Tillandsia elongata var. subimbricata |
Tillandsia fasciculata Photos Dennis Cathcart |
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| Tillandsia kegeliana | Tillandsia venusta |
Tillandsias along river |
Unidentified bromeliad Photo Ed Prince |
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| undescribed Vriesea species | Werauhia hygrometrica | |||
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| Werauhia kupperiana Guzmania musaica |
Werauhia ringens | Werauhia sanguinolenta | ||
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Photo Ed Prince |