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Panama City, Panama
5 customs and traditions in Panama City — what they are, and how to take part without causing offence.
The elaborately embroidered national dress, worn at festivals and taking a year or more to make.
Reverse-appliqué textile panels made by Guna women, sold in the old city.
Four days before Lent, with the culecos water trucks soaking the crowd every afternoon.
Drum-and-call music with a lead singer and a circle of responders.
Actually Ecuadorian, but sold here since canal workers bought them — the sombrero pintado is the real local hat.
