** FILE ** View of the Plaza de la Independencia, with the Metropolitan Cathedral on Casco Viejo in Panama City, Panama in this Nov. 13, 2005 file photo. Attracted by it's exhuberant nature, indigenous cultutres and vestiges of a colonial past, more and more tourists are now visiting Central America, a region that was once barely traveled due to it's internal political conflicts. (AP Photo/Arnulfo Franco)