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San Blas 2010 : A group of friend of us decided to explore our beautiful territory and started by picking up San Blas as our first stop in our effort to visit every interesting spot in our panamenian geography. It wasn't cheap, but it was worth it every penny. A must to go if you ever stop in Panama. Pure caribbean weather, with clear waters, plenty of coconuts trees, relaxing breeze and white sand makes of this a paradisiac place.

San Blas 2010

Trip to Penonome Province : Penonomé is the capital of the province of Coclé, south of the province of Panama, at the centre of the country. Founded on April 30, 1581 by Diego Lopez de Villanueva and Zapata with the aim of uniting the Aboriginal people of the land of Nata and Anton. His first neighborhoods were Chiquita Street, The Bajito and San Antonio. Subsequently, the population would grow in the form of ring, to form what is today Penonomé. So I decided that since I know little of the touristic spots of my country I would start visiting them all little by little.

Trip to Penonome Province

View from Cerro Ancon : A little something for those friends of mine from the North who quite often show themselves surprised when I tell them that indeed we have macdonalds and tall buildings. Gotta admit that Panama's city has grown quite fast over the last 5 years.

View from Cerro Ancon

Old Panama City : This gallery is currently under upgrade. There is so much to capture of the panamenian city that it'll take some time to complete it.

Old Panama City

San Blas Tourism : Exotic place to visit. Everything is so pristine. It's a must to see place if you ever come to Panama. You won't regret.

San Blas Tourism

Friend´s Trip to Pedasi : So Sandra´s family decided to spend some time out of the city and so Sandra invited Dina, Howard and me to spend a weekend in Pedasi, Peninsula de Azuero.

Friend´s Trip to Pedasi

Family Trip to Taboga :

Family Trip to Taboga

Playon Chico Mission Trip : One day, Howard asked me if I was interested in going along with him to supervise the mission field in Playon Chico. I said, "dude, that would be a wonderful thing to do, count me in"

Playon Chico Mission Trip

Chiriqui Mission Trip : I was invited to participate as an interpreter for this group of american volunteers of mission "Global Mission Fellowship" from Texas. So we went to the high lands of the province of Chiriqui in Panama. It was a long bus ride but the whole experience was awesome.

Chiriqui Mission Trip

Parque Omar : Parque Omar is one of those places that evoke pleasant memories of my childhood. So much fun I got to spend within this memorable park. Reason why, everytime, every opportunity I get to walk throughout its paths, I do so gratefully for it means so much to me. Besides, what a beautiful and peaceful place it is during early hours of the morning and during the evening. The shades formed by the sun lighting against the old trees and the wind rushing against the runners, what an experience.

Parque Omar

Night Tourism in Panama City. :

Night Tourism in Panama City.

Santa Clara's beach trip : It's always a wonderful thing to spend time with the friends, specially those of them who you know since almost forever. To me, it has such a huge meaning to be able to share and nurture our friendship. Hurray for my friends!!!

Santa Clara's beach trip

Atlantis Water Park, Bahamas :

Atlantis Water Park, Bahamas

Gran Cayman Island : The Cayman Islands comprise Grand Cayman, Cayman Brac and Little Cayman. The islands are located about 290 kilometers northwest of Jamaica and the total land area is 264 sq. kilometers. These islands are low-lying for the most part, although Cayman Brac has a central limestone bluff and the coasts are reefed and rocky. Georgetown is the capital, located on Gran Cayman Island.

Gran Cayman Island

Tulum, Mexico : Recently I saw the movie of Mel Gibson, Apocalypto and I couln't help but to remember my visit to the ruins of Tulum in Mexico. After watching the movie I did realize how much blood and sacrifices of innocent lives must have had ran on those same roads I walked by. It all makes sense, their culture and great knowledge was somehow based on fairy tales and stories not founded on nothing because they didn't understand for example natural phenomenas which gave them way to adore the sun and sacrifice their child to it in order to gain its favor. Most of the ancient cultures were so bloody and I do accept that it captives my attention to photograph and see this famous places, but fail to realize that it must had been a place where none of us would've wanted to live.

Tulum, Mexico

Costa Maya, Mx. : Costa Maya is a very undeveloped touristic area. But it is growing steady and fast. My guess is that within the next 20 years, it´ll be the next Cozumel.

Costa Maya, Mx.

Antigua : I loved it because it is a very colorful island. So much color of the history of their culture.

Antigua

Tortola, British Virgin Island : Without doubt, Tortola is one of my favorite places in the Caribbean. It is so peaceful, so beautiful, so paradise style.

Tortola, British Virgin Island

Freeport : There is absolutely nothing to see in this small island. Honestly, I have no idea why Carnival insist in on going to this place. Their reason they must have.

Freeport

Nassau, Bahamas : This is the place you have to go if you want to see a replica of a hidden, forgotten and sank island. You get to see all of this and more in "Atlantis"

Nassau, Bahamas

Geneva, Italy : Perhaps one of the most difficult things for a foreign traveller is to determine in a short period of time the details and peculiar spirit of a city. Between my job and my free time, between train trips and walking around I have strived to get the most out of what I see and capture the escense of Geneva. Special Thanks to Natalya who have showned me around a few places.

Geneva, Italy

Stromboli Vulcano, Mediterranean Sea : Is is a small island in the Tyrrhenian Sea, off the north coast of Sicily, containing one of the three active volcanoes in Italy. The island has a population of between 400 and 750. The volcano has erupted many times, and is constantly active with minor eruptions, often visible from many points on the island and from the surrounding sea. The last major eruption was in November 2007

Stromboli Vulcano, Mediterranean Sea

Volcano Etna, Italy : I have never been fond to exploring volcanoes or anything similar to it, but my brother has, ever since he was a little one, so I decided to take a closer look at one of the most explosive and currently active volcano in the world and share the experience with Daniel.

Volcano Etna, Italy

Cinque Terre, Manarola, Northern Italy. : The Cinque Terre is a rugged portion of coast of the Riviera to the west of the city of La Spezia, in the province of La Spezia in the Liguria region of Italy comprising five villages, "The Five Lands": Monterosso al Mare, Vernazza, Corniglia, Manarola, and Riomaggiore. The Cinque Terre, due to the geographical and anthropomorphic features of the territory in which they are found, represent one of the main tourist attractions of the Riviera of La Spezia and in general of the Liguria region. The orographic context is a naturally rugged, hilly territory, attenuated by the presence of terraces for crops, which degrade towards the seafront in steep slopes.

Cinque Terre, Manarola, Northern Italy.

Zoo Trip, Barcelona :

Zoo Trip, Barcelona

Barcelona, Spain : Best place to go, if you are a huge fan of spanish soccer, is called Nou Camp. Although, all of Barcelona is a must-to-see city. It is so modern and tidy and there is so much history on the streets.

Barcelona, Spain

Livorno, Italy : Never thought I would see with my own eyes the reality of the leaning tower in Pisa

Livorno, Italy

Monaco, France : It wasn´t until couple of days ago, that I realized that Monaco, is not part of France as I thought. From this complex of castles and houses you can see the city of Monaco, one of the richest in the world. I got to see the Monaco´s Prince Castle and much of its history. I got amazed to learn that a simple apartment in this city isn´t cheaper than 2 millions bucks. Wao.

Monaco, France

Barcelona F.C. Stadium : My dream becoming true. Nou Camp is the third largest soccer stadium in the world, after Maracana in Brazil and Azteca Stadium in Mexico. It was so cool to be there.

Barcelona F.C. Stadium

Palma de Mallorca : It´s such a mystic place. It was quite impresive to be walking among buildings and castles that dated back to 1200´s. No words.

Palma de Mallorca

Monte Carlo, France : All I will say is that we tried to go in the casino, but they won´t allowed us. Guess they can tell by far who is extreme famous and rich and who isn´t.

Monte Carlo, France

Sicilia, Italy : Only comes to my mind when I hear of this place is about the famous gangster that populated new york streets from sicily back in the 20's and 30´s

Sicilia, Italy

Malaga, Spain : There was this famous soccer player from Panama that played in Malaga for many many years. I was excited to be where he lived for many years playing and leaving our flag high.

Malaga, Spain

Funchal, Portugal : Amazing place, it is sort of in the middle of nowhere. It is a small island far from mainland europe. They say water is more expensive than beer.

Funchal, Portugal

Sunsets and Sunrises : If there is something that captives my imagination and my thoughts fully is this particular part of God´s creation.

Sunsets and Sunrises

High Cusine : Some nice looking plates we prepare on the ships

High Cusine

Venecia, Italy : The city of romanticism. Indeed a stunning view. Shocking in a way that cars are not allowed there. Only gondolas and busboats.

Venecia, Italy

Art :

Art

Dubrovnik, Croatia : Perhaps my most memorable place in Europe. Maybe because the people there is so friendly and reminds me so much of canadians. Duvrovnik is so full of history on the streets and so rich in their culture. A must to see country.

Dubrovnik, Croatia

Flowers : The huge diversity of flowers has a powerful undeniable message of divine creation.

Flowers

Friends Around the Globe : I decided to create this gallery to publish those pictures of friends that in a way or another have impacted my life and have left a footprint on me.

Friends Around the Globe

Carnival Freedom & Splendor :

Carnival Freedom & Splendor

Carnival Conquest People : People somehow touched my life during this contract.

Carnival Conquest People

Carnival Pride People : Many insights of the life in and out surrounding the ship life.

Carnival Pride People

Carnival Celebration People : This pictures taken during the beggining of my third contract.

Carnival Celebration People

Carnival Paradise People : Crew Members aboard Paradise

Carnival Paradise People

Carnival Sensation People :

Carnival Sensation People

Christian Fellowship : One of the most important things that I have come to understand is that attending a christian fellowship is of utmost importance. But onboard the ships, that is not easy and at times is difficult to find other believers and get toguether specially when everyone has different working schedules. But thanks to God, he has provided the group, the time the space, the leadership and the willingness from us to find a time to spend toguether as children of God. This has produced huge positive and spiritual changes in my life and God has used this to make it up for the time I can't attend to church in my country.

Christian Fellowship

Mariana :

Mariana

Santa Catalina, California : Beautiful restful-free of environment contamination place

Santa Catalina, California

San Antonio, Texas : God gave me the opportunity of paying a visit to my ol' good friend Howard in his Bible college building, after disembarking Carnival Conquest

San Antonio, Texas

San Francisco City : Certainly a lovely city. Very expensive though.

San Francisco City

Alcatraz Jail Tour, S.F. :

Alcatraz Jail Tour, S.F.

Silver Dollar City Amusement Park : This park is located in Brandson Missouri. It´s owned by a christian family which is good because there is even a small church in it.

Silver Dollar City Amusement Park

Celebration City Amusement Park : This park is also located in Brandson Missouri.

Celebration City Amusement Park

Cabo San Lucas : Cabo San Lucas is a wonderful place to say the less, however is really expensive.

Cabo San Lucas

Puerto Vallarta, Mexico : The one thing I love about P.V. is their gorgeous sunsets with that warm strong breeze. Such a relaxing scene.

Puerto Vallarta, Mexico

Carnival Pride Dry Dock S.F. : These pictures are about the two weeks we spent in San Francisco while the ship was been given some maintenance. These pictures were taken by someone else, cuz I didnt hava access to those places.

Carnival Pride Dry Dock S.F.

Perry´s Lake, San Bernandino, CA : It was here, I learned why most americans spend quality time with their family on weekends to rest.

Perry´s Lake, San Bernandino, CA

Brandson, Missuri : My friend Tim and I went on a road trip to Brandson to the spring inauguration of Silver Dollar City and Celebration City amusement Park.

Brandson, Missuri

Tulsa, Oklahoma : Someone told me, the real USA is not what we are taught by Hollywood. They show us big fancy mansions, expensive cars and people wearing only fashion clothes. Only in a couple of states you see that, not in the rest of America.

Tulsa, Oklahoma

Napa Valley Trip, California USA : This place is really famous for their fine international renamed wines.

Napa Valley Trip, California USA

Believe or Not of Ripley Museum : This museum is located at Fishermen´s Wharf in S.F.

Believe or Not of Ripley Museum

Chiriqui Family Trip : Our family trip to Chiriqui. Ana Rauel didn't make it, cuz she had to stay back home to get prepared for an important test for college.

Chiriqui Family Trip

Our family trip to Chiriqui. Ana Rauel didn't make it, cuz she had to ...

Updated: Jun 05, 2007 11:33am PST

Familia Pandales-Garcia 2004 : My beautiful family.

Familia Pandales-Garcia 2004

Close-Up :

Close-Up

Jesus Llego Al Barrio - Festival : This time it was Monte Oscuro neighborhood's turn to massively receive an evangelistical approach. God's started to knock community by community doors, looking for those who are thirsty and hungry of something fresh, new and Holy.

Jesus Llego Al Barrio - Festival

"Conociendo el Verdadero Amor" Festival : Not so long ago a dream was born in the heart of young Pastor Juan Carlos Quintero to bring forth a mega youth festival right in the heart of Rio Hato town in the province of Cocle, Panama. In order to make this event possible God used a variety of people from different churches, denominations, backgrounds and ministries who poured their God-given skills and resources because they feel an urge to go out and be used by God, people whose hearts are not longer in sitting down in their churches to receive and be ministered, but revolutionary people who are willing to go to places where not everyone goes. I like to call them Warriors of Christ. God is bringing together a group of people from around the country to join forces as a body in order to do amazing things in and through them in our society. Those who feel a conviction that "warming seat" in a church has been enough are more than welcome to join in. Mathew 9:37 says "The harvest truly is plenteous but the labourers are few".

"Conociendo el Verdadero Amor" Festival

Iluminando Corazones : Iluminando Corazones is an outreach program from our church C.O.C., intended to touch small children's hearts as they go thru very difficult times in their short lives. Their main goal is to pour out God's love abundantly and teach them important values like love, forgiveness, endurance and hope among several other things. It is Christ's desire that everyone gets involved in blessing others with what He has given to us. Freely (without pay) you have received, freely (without charge) give. -Jesus Christ-

Iluminando Corazones

Iluminando Corazones 2010 : Every quarter of the year, it has been planned a BIG PARTY to the kids, but it is not just any party, it is a party where aside from having fun, running, eating, dancing and enjoying themselves we get to measure how much have they kept from the teachings they receive from us. The party turned out to be a blast, even the kids who normally refuse to participate, gave in to the temptation of the colors, laughings, dancing, music and the overall carnival we prepared for them. God allowed a beautiful day, it was sunny and hot, superb for a day like the one we wished. God brought forth talent from the members of the Iluminando Corazones Group and it was used all together for His Glory. We have been given so much, so much we are bound to give out. The more we receive the more we need to give away, not expecting to get anything in return, but expecting God to use our obedience and willingness to bring life to others.

Iluminando Corazones 2010

Sopa Caliente 2010 - Entheos : La Sopa Caliente is an activity organized and carried out by a group of young people who love God, under the umbrella of the church's youth's organization called Entheos. It is carried out almost twice a year and is a great way of blessing homeless and see how blessed we are. It is one of those things that goes two ways. In blessing others, you are greatly blessed.

Sopa Caliente 2010 - Entheos

El Valle - Entheos - 2010 : We were given the task to teach at a local school @ El Valle de Anton to a group of 10th, 11th and 12th graders and the topic was about self-esteem and self-development. What a task, we were assigned to talk them into continuing their studies and becoming professionals and people that would change their communities and way of living. We were to encourage them to be part of the statistics of new college students. It was a great experience for us and I can tell that it was for them. Many of them at the end, would say wonderful things to our team, things like, "no one has talked to us the way you did" and "I feel like I can make it after all".

El Valle - Entheos - 2010

El Valle - Entheos - 2010 Part II - Friends : Not only did we get to learn from Esteban Osbando who came all the way from Costa Rica to teach us about relationships, leadership and shaping the character, but did we get to get to know each other and spend time with those who we already met. I personally met a whole bunch of people I didn't even know they attended church. It's funny because part of the purpose of this time we spent away from the city was to strengthen broken relationships and make new ones. I recently spoke with a friend of mine who also went to this trip and we agreed to the fact that strong relationships among church's youth leaders is a must in order to stay coherent. We need each other, for along we will sink our boat and all of those who are sailing with us.

El Valle - Entheos - 2010 Part II - Friends

El Valle - Entheos - 2010 - III Parte - Kids Party : Our second assignment was to host a kids party at Anton's town. We were told 45 min. prior to taking the bus to get ready and organize our improvised team the whole logistic of making a fun party for kids and their parents. We were given a whole bunch of cloth and toys to give away, along with a "pinata" and cake. We even had to pick someone to do the clown part to animate the party. The 45 min ride from our base of operations to the spot was lots of fun, between rehearsing and planning, we laughed and joked a lot. The party itself was a hit, even though it was pouring cats and dogs at the beginning and even though the truck that was supposed to bring the things we were to use to make the party a success did not arrive till late in the afternoon, we managed to work with the nails and the kids and their parents enjoyed it so much. There is so much need in these towns, kids that had never got a present had this huge smile in their faces and their eyes shined like never before. It is such a blessing to serve, I would not change it for nothing. Nothing!!!

El Valle - Entheos - 2010 - III Parte - Kids Party

Ana Lorein : Special Thanks to the model who is such a cute beautiful and smart little lady and to Claudia who created the opportunity to make this photo-shoot a enjoyable thing. Location: El Valle de Anton

Ana Lorein

Isla Casaya 2011 : So my friend Yuban invited everyone who wanted to spend a few bucks to visit one of the islands in the pacific of Panama. The little island is called "Casaya", home to a few people who live in there and live out of the sea. We traveled on a nice cocky yacht which was enjoyable. A bunch of people from church spent a sunrise at sea and an even better meal and day at beach on the island. Great weather, excellent time with friends, and good conversation were the highlights. On our way back to panama city, unfortunately we were late and the tide was low so we were forced to disembark on a different port few miles away from where the cars were, almost at midnight....but it was worth it. Great Experience!!!

Isla Casaya 2011

Graduacion Entheos :

Graduacion Entheos

Bautismo - COC - 22-05-2011 :

Bautismo - COC - 22-05-2011

Updated: Jun 01, 2011 7:29pm PST

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Jackie and Gabriel Engagement

Slideshow 2 :

Slideshow 2

Updated: Sep 03, 2011 10:11pm PST

Bryan Bday Party :

Bryan Bday Party

Graduacion MBA ULACIT :

Graduacion MBA ULACIT

Updated: Dec 03, 2011 7:59pm PST

Family Portraits - Jaen&Arauz :

Family Portraits - Jaen&Arauz

Updated: Jun 20, 2012 12:35pm PST

Torneo de Ajedrez :

Torneo de Ajedrez

Updated: Jul 01, 2012 11:02am PST

Beautiful Mind - Concert 2012 :

Beautiful Mind - Concert 2012

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Nicole - Quinceanios :

Nicole - Quinceanios