Tourism and handicrafts

OUR VISITORS

If you come to visit us, be sure that you will leave with a smile on your face, lots of memories and knowledge about our culture, environment and way of life.
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OUR TOURISM PROJECT

In 1984, our family faced a new challenge to our traditional way of life. In this year, the area where we live, the Panama Canal watershed, became the Chagres National Park.

In the year 1996

We started working in tourism. At first, we sought and received a lot of help from the Panama Tourism Board (IPAT), the World Bank and several local Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs).

They helped us to organise ourselves and establish relationships with local tour operators. They also provided us with important training in tourism, customer service and visitor safety..

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Today in the year 2023

Today we have a unique tourism programme that is in charge of and supports our community. The contrast of tourists interacting in such a traditional setting may seem disconcerting at first, but the programme has actually strengthened our community in many ways.

Tourism is a means of earning the money our families need to buy essentials such as clothing, petrol and medical care. Most importantly, it gives us the resources to send our children out of town for secondary education.

Each of us, child or adult, who participates in our community tourism earns a salary. The pay varies for each event, depending on the task (guide, cook, dancer or captain).

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Today in the year 2023

Today we have a unique tourism programme that is in charge of and supports our community. The contrast of tourists interacting in such a traditional setting may seem disconcerting at first, but the programme has actually strengthened our community in many ways.

Tourism is a means of earning the money our families need to buy essentials such as clothing, petrol and medical care. Most importantly, it gives us the resources to send our children out of town for secondary education.

Each of us, child or adult, who participates in our community tourism earns a salary. The pay varies for each event, depending on the task (guide, cook, dancer or captain).

TALK TO US
  • indigenous-family-tribe
  • indigenous-women-and-baby-girl-on-a-indigenous-boat
  • indigenous-people-land-waterfall
  • Tourist-arriving-to-indigenous-land
  • tucan-on-indigenous-people-land
  • indigenous-food-on-indigenous-decorative-banquet
  • indigenous-woman-doing-indigenous-tattoos

OUR HANDMADE CRAFTS

Most importantly for us, tourism has caused a renaissance in our traditional Emberá arts and culture.

We are proud of who we are, and we are especially proud to share who we are with you, our visitors. And most importantly for us, tourism has caused a renaissance in our traditional Emberá arts and culture.

MADE WITH LOVE FOR OUR CULTURE

If you come to visit us be sure that you will leave with a smile, lots of memories and knowledge about our culture, environment and way of life.
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