Penonome & La Pintada - Week 17

4th January

We left the highlands of Boquete on the morning of the 4th to travel down to the Pacific coast and some real sunshine and beach. On the way, however, was a tiny town in the mountains to visit just off the interamericana freeway with a cigar factory and great little artisan market so we stopped in Penonome for a night and spent the next morning at the cigar factory and at the market in La Pintada.

The cigar factory was just a little hut with lots of school desks where the workers hand roll the cigars:

At the market, we bought molas which are the hand stiched parts of the Panamian women's traditional dress and met the women that stiched them: