#Tezos4Nature -- Many of the tallest trees which adorned the river banks remained alive after the valley was dammed and Lake Alajuela was created in the 1930s. The landscape, though beautiful, haunting, breathtaking, is not how nature had intended.

Before the lake, roads and towns dotted the landscape, travelers moved from one ocean to another across the isthmus. They carried riches from all continents, commercial goods, recipes, languages, music.

And before the towns and the travelers, the rivers ran untouched, home to species unique to Panama. Now, in spite of the heavy human footprint of this region, Nature thrives and adapts continuously to the rising and falling levels of rivers and the artificial lake.

Today, these trees dance in a macabre spectacle which is as mysterious as it is stunning. They dance to the music of the waters and the winds, but also with the remains of the music of thousands of travelers who braved the jungle roads and rivers through centuries of human occupation.

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