Country Info
- Panama
- Capital
- balboa (PAB)
- Currency
- 2,845,647
- Population
- PA
- Country Code
Panama Slideshow
Top Hotels in Panama
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Hotel La Villa Chitre
1 review -
La Casa de Lourdes Farallon
3 reviews
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Hotelito Del Mar Bocas Town
36 reviews -
La Hacienda Santiago
20 reviews -
Anton Valley Hotel El Valle de Anton
167 reviews
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Hotel Bocas del Toro Bocas Town
118 reviews
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Travel Blogs from Panama
Half Baked Nutjobs at the Panadaria
This is a top pick! ... water complete with coral reef in a bay. What a great surprise. Take that Lonely Planet guidebook Panama edition...I never saw any mention of this in your Portobelo pages! Gliding just inches above rock ...
Boat trip to Colombia
This is a top pick! ... but after sleeping like sardines in the port the first night one guyed bailed and another girl got so sick she had to fly to Panama from the San Blas Islands. Even then 8 backpackers on a 40 ft boat was a tight fit but we eventually got ...
Panama
This is a top pick! ... me. My god, how sweet does life get? When we arrived there was a fiesta taking place in the main plaza and street as Panama are celebrating 100 years of independence (I think it´s independence/or it could be existence - I think I will find out). So ...
What a Day
This is a top pick! ... ; Two streets of decayed grandeur line a cove, and I may as well be a million miles from all the skyscrapers and malls of Panama City. The boat to Colombia should leave on the 8th, possibly a day or two later. Portobelo is home ...
What's Old is New Again, Part II
This is a top pick! ... taxi driver, Jorge, is an electrician for the Canal and drives taxis in his off time. He even proudly showed me his Panama Canal ID badge. That's nice and all Jorge, but please watch the road. We almost bit it while you fished ...
Life on the island
This is a top pick! ... now and have had an awesome time. Just the fact that I am back in Latin America makes me smile. When I arrived in Panama City the annual Carnival was being celebrated. The Latin America carnival is celebrated every year 40 days before Easter. It consists ...
Juliette lost everything -- Dazed and Confused
This is a top pick! ... 't exactly had time to look at our robbers faces in the time of panic. The tourist police was nice enough to take us around Panama City to get things organized. Juliette called to cancel her credit card, and we went to the French Embassy to have a report ...
2001 -- Una odisea de las Américas
This is a top pick! ... , across the Canadian Praries, Canadian Shields. Then went through USA, Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, got robbed in Antigua, sick to the stomach in San Pedro, bitten by a dog in La Liberdad, and thats ...
Zoolander and Cable TV
This is a top pick! ... crossed the continent-dividing bridge into South America (officially); and arrived in the modern main bus terminal at the outskirts of Panama City at sunrise. The Lonely Planet wasn't accurate about location of the bus terminal so we were lost. After ...
Finally Some Paddling
This is a top pick! Portobelo is where two worlds about as different as can be peacefully collide. On the one hand the native population comprises mostly descendants of former slaves. On the other Portobelo hosts a continuous stream of adventerous ...
Fast Forward to Panama
This is a top pick! ... it means a little bit of triage whacks the wishlist of other places to see. A few countries standing between Guatemala and Panama hold little interest for me to again visit, and a multiday bus journey is one laborious option to cross ...
A different type of adventure
This is a top pick! ... the canal, how you do it, and all the details in between. This person is specially trained and employed by the Panama Canal authorities. The next four people are typically refered to as line handlers. Their job is to keep the boat ...
Panama City and Canal
This is a top pick! ... families out on a Sunday stroll, runners, bikers, etc. It made for a nice walk. Finally, we spent Monday checking out the Panama Canal. This, obviously, is a can´t-miss while we´re here, so we took a bus out to the Miraflores Locks to look ...
Leaving Central America!
This is a top pick! ... to Colombia, and our journey through South America. Since completing our canal transit, we`ve been hanging out in and around Panama City. Thanksgiving for us was similar to that at home -- football, having a few beers with friends at the hostel, ...
Endless Banana Plantations
This is a top pick! ... in one day. Put in perspective, this morning we were on the Pacific side of Costa Rica; tonight, we are sleeping on an island on the Carribean side of Panama! Perhaps we should have flown....but we would have missed this land of wonder and ...
What's Old is New Again
This is a top pick! ... could be straight out of some familiar suburbia right down to the Frosted Flakes and same beeping of the cash register scanner. Panama even uses our currency, and were it not for espanol everywhere, I am back in the United States. Today I ...
Panama to Colombia!!!
This is a top pick! Wow what an amazing trip it was sailing across the Carribean from Panama to Colombia! The Pan-American Highway does not connect Central America to South America so I considered many other options on getting to Colombia from Panama such as flying which ...
Panic=> Control=> Relax=>Decision=>Solution
This is a top pick! ... was the only safe place in Panama. CONTROL: We travelled often between our hotel and Via Espania, the main boulevard of Panama City. First, Juliette called Mastercard, try to explain the situation and possibly get a replacement credit card. Well, it ...
Last Day in Portobelo
This is a top pick! ... a good price on just about anything if one dares to venture in. Yes, I survived a quick trip into the ass of Panama without incident and I can report the city is quite sketchy. Though the main street wasn't as bad as I ...
Goodbye to Beaches
This is a top pick! ... for a while... Bocas del Toro Bocas is a small, layed back town on an island in the Bocas del Toro archipeligo, off the coast of Panama. The town itself is cute, and oddly, doesn´t have a beach. The town goes right up to the water, with many ...
Caribbean Camping
This is a top pick! Sometime during the night the rain blew in and washed out our plans for later in the morning. We set off in the boat to uninhabited Pelican Island for some snorkeling and lunch that would be delivered by local Kuna Indians. As we ...
Bye bye South America, hello Panama
... bus which extended our trip by a few hours. It became apparent to us that there weren´t many tourists visiting this part of Panama during the weekdays in the rainy season because we were the only gringos around. It also became apparent that the only ...
Arrivo a pedasi
... la sua pace e la sua gente, ci fa desistere da lasciare gli ultimi nostri risparmi in quel luogo. e quindi dopo ore di parole proprietà visionate decidiamo di preparere la nostra prossima tappa. Bocas del toro. Prima però si deve ritornare a panama city ...
From Costa Rica to Panama by bus, taxi and boat
... left Costa Rica and walked to Panama over a small bridge. When a truck came you had to "hang" on the bridge.. When I arrived in Panama I took a taxi from the border to Almirante a town on the sea side.. What was a 1-1,5 hour drive. From there I got a ...
Corn on the Cob Fight to the Death
Once upon a late night venture to Romero's, we found corn on the cob!! But it was kinda wimpy... (surprisingly the produce departments here are almost non-existent) After teaching Bethy how to correctly tear open an ear of corn to check on its ...
Un endroit veritablement unique
Apres 3 petites heures en voiture, accompagnes d'un chauffeur, Gidipi Remi Jillian DD et moi accedont au "pays" des Kuna, le gigantesque parc des San Blas Islands. C'est un magnifique exemple d'une communaute vivant selon ses propres regles et sa propre ...
Las Perlas del Pacifico
... ' quelques coups de fil, un avion vide de passager apparaît comme par miracle et nous nous envolons tous les 4 dans notre jet privé direction Panama City où, pour conclure dignement ce week-end magique, Monchi a réservé une chambre au Casa del Horno! ...
Everything has an end
... je retrouve les 2 loustiques (Remi et Digipi) pour leur faire visiter Casco Viejo et l'ecluse Miraflores du canal de Panama. Malheureusement les 2 ingenieurs ne montrent qu'un interet tres limite pour le bouillonnement culturel de ce quartier aux mille ...
Dressing for dinner
by Kim: Most nights, the dress code in the dining room is "smart casual," which pretty much comes down to no shorts, but causes us to have to dress for dinner. I alternate between finding it civilized and finding it a nuisance. Three of our 15 ...