Panama in Pictures

July 15th, 2008

Not your typical photo of Panama. It’s one of 524 in Allan Hawkins’ truly stunning Panama Photos collection (at Kodak so you need to log-in there to see them all).

Getting a grip on how and what is Panama is not so easy on the internet. We hear complaints all the time about the hype and the property speculation hysteria.
This photo collection isn’t glossed over, and even just a few of the images gives you a great idea about Panama, right down to the occasional peeling paint, rusted fixtures and things you can appreciate for some intrinsic aesthetic and historical value, but that you’ll never see in the glossy marketing brochures. You’ll also get a feel for the tremendous progress that Panama is making in terms of construction and development.
I’ve already shared this collection in a bunch of other areas around the internet but I think LWOB readers should take a careful look if you’re considering moving to Panama and you haven’t been there. I went through almost all 524 photos in an hour.

In my ramblings I also found this nice online History of Central America that some readers might want to leaf through. I’ve only been dabbling in the section on the history of Panama but already I’ve turned up lots of interesting data.