The San Blas Islands are a vast archipelago on Panama’s Caribbean coast composed of over 345 islands. World wild they are unique in many ways, home to the indigenous Kuna indians, who have best preserved their culture and traditions out of all the tribes in the Americas. At the same time you have one of the most untouched stretches of virgin rainforest and a cruising ground of incredible beauty, all in the same place. The San Blas Islands and the associated mainland territory are called Kuna Yala by the autonomous Kuna Indians who effectively control this quarter of Panama. The land is not divided into individual properties and fences are absent. That is why the landscape still looks much the same as Vasco Nunez de Balboa first arrived.ll