Panama

A GREAT day in my mailbox thanks to some people....and it's really good the postman decided to come today (he comes rather scarcely compared to previous times, and I really miss having mail on (almost) daily basis...but anyways...today was a working Saturday...so it was a real treat and cheer-up to open my mailbox when I came home.

And one of the lovely items inside was this ABSOLUTELY GORGEOUS map from Panama! Which along with another Panama card came as a great surprise from Freddy, totally unexpectedly....but surely, wholeheartedly appreciated! This map has been in my favourites for sooo long and now it is finally mine!! Yippie yippie yippie!!!
From what I could figure out from the back of the card, here is shown the division according to Indigenous groups....so you have: 1. Kuna; 2. Ngöbe-Buglé; 3. Emberá-Wounaan; 4. Teribe; 5. Bri-Bri; 6. BOKOTAS

I know it will be way too much to write about each of them separately..so ill just give you some overall information about all these.

The 2000 Census indicated that there were 285,231 indigenous people in the country, of which 61,707 were Kuna, 17,731 Buglé, 993 Bokota, 6,882 Wounaan, 169,130 Ngöbe, 3,305 Teribe, 22,485 Emberá, 2,521 Bri-bri and 477 unclassified.

The other card Freddy sent me, shows an Emberá girl, so Ill get into a bit more details of these people when the time comes :)

and some great stamps...all over the card!
The top one is from a set of 17 stamps issued in 2003 commemorating the Centenary of the Republic of Panama 1903 to 2003. The bottom stamp is from a set of 7 Tourism stamps issued in 1998.

Thank you very much again Freddy for this splendid surprise! 

Panama

Well, my first postcard in the new outlook...

And this lady seems to have had a nice trip before she arrived to me since this card was first missent to Osaka...where they had put that sticker you can see on the card...i wondered if i should remove it or no, but this sticker feels so special due to its oddity that i decided to keep it intact as it had arrived :)
From what I can read, the sticker says "Customs Inspection and Repacked"......which I found confusing....if this was a package, it wouldnt have caught my attention....but why would they put such a sticker on a postcard? It was sent written and stamped....whats here interesting for the customs? and whats there to repack in the first place? I was actually joking that the lady's pollera seemed suspicious as if she was hiding something underneath.
Btw, Pollera is considered as a typical Panamanian national dress. Looks interesting.

Oh, and Id like to send a special Hello to Chris with this card and celebrate the spring coming ....I know he will like this lady too :P

The stamp is from a set of 7 issued in 1997 (8)? depicting Tourism.

Here is my missent to Osaka stamp........

Panama

Man....i feel so blank...its scary....i dont know if coffee, my best friend is gonna be any helpful...ive done loads of work...and still have some left to do...im beginning to wonder if thats coz i really have loads of work to do, or is it coz im so inefficient and there is always something left...i have a feeling that this fella on the picture is giving me some ridiculing look...or pitiful...i dont know...

He is really pretty....i love his vibrant colours. His name is Guacamaya.....his nicknames are Macaw and Ara..call him whichever suits you best..i think that he also might be a Scarlet Macaw...but you know how it goes with birds and animals...each species has its sub-species which slightly can differ from the original guy....

His eyes seem like a piece of glass or crystal glued over his skin....unnatural but beautiful.
They are exotic birds, said to be living in the wilds of Central and South America...


Scarlet macaws prefer undisturbed rainforest. They eat fruits, nuts, flowers and nectar, and they often eat unripe fruit and nuts that other animals avoid. These macaws also eat clay from river banks. No one is sure why they do this, but the clay seems to be important to them. One hypothesis is that the clay helps the parrots to digest poisonous chemicals found in the unripe fruit they eat.
A pair of scarlet macaws raises one or two young each season in a tree cavity nest. The young birds often stay with their parents for up to two years. The adult parrots will not rear another clutch until the young leave the nest. As a result, the number of macaws increases slowly.
Deforestation has had a big impact on the scarlet macaws. Without their natural habitat, they stop building nests and producing young, and can have difficulty finding enough to eat. Unfortunately, deforestation can be hard to stop because people need land to grow food. A lot of scarlet macaws have been taken from the wild to be sold as pets.

well, as for a pet...it is nice to have him at home...he surely is beautiful...but im much happier to see these birds in their natural habitats, where they belong in the first place.