Conical hats do more than just shade one's face from the sun; they also warm the heart
on your far right hand side you can see a boat full of tourists, crossing the Panama Canal, this is a must see in your lifetime, it's like $8 for admission, and they have a presentation, flyers in spanish and english, explaining the process of the Miraflores Locks, the importance and the mechanism, behind it all, they have a 15 minute movie, in english explaining the construction of the Panama Canal, and they have maquettes and they view of the bridge of a vessel crossing the Canal, (Simulator).
Tankers pass our cruise ship as we leave Colon in Panama.
Heading upriver to an Embera Indian village in a motorized canoe.
By the side of the road in the mountains of Ethiopia, these boys are selling their hats. Somehow it became hard to buy just one.
The scenery of The Paramo (High Andean Grasslands) consists of tough grasses and beautiful patchwork foothills. The city of Otavalo is famous for it’s Saturday market day where many weaving and crafts are sold.
A child gets a closer look at one of the friezes near the main rotunda
Filipino products sold in Bohol for souvenirs.
Bohol is the tenth largest island in the country and is situated southeast of Cebu. The Island offers Chocolate Hills of Carmen, unpolluted waterfalls, beaches, virgin forests, caverns, caves, seas and rivers.
Bohol is also the home to the "tarsier", the smallest monkey in the world.
This vendor sells different souvenirs from the Philippines made out of Coconut leaves. From hats, fans, baskets and bags - you get to pick your choice!