Country Info
- Panama
- Capital
- balboa (PAB)
- Currency
- 2,845,647
- Population
- PA
- Country Code
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Travel Blogs from Panama
Panama es muy bonito
... to write another tomorrow when I am well rested and fresh. The journey here was crazy and full of things I can laugh at now- but I feel very lucky to be in Panama and think it is such a beautiful country. I will write as much as I can about it ...
Panama's just a canal...isn't it?
The gang Ive got myself involved with arrived here in Bocas del Toro (on the Caribbean coast), Panama from Puerto Viejo, Costa Rica last night after a rugged and painful journey of 1 1/2 hours to the border at Sixaola with some American guys ...
Climbing and Halloween in Boquete!
... sweatshirts from our bag under the bus and the rest of the ride was bearable. Definitely not comfortable, but bearable. Back in Panama City, we found out from our taxi driver that the following day was the beginning of a two day party with parades ...
February
Well this is certainly the warmest February I've ever experienced :) We were supposed to wake up and head out for service at 8:15 this morning…buuuuuuuut Meredith is the only one who made it out. Rae and I ended up getting out ...
Panama City
... is so much more developed than the rest of Central America! In the evening we decided to check out whatever drinking establishments Panama City had to offer. After a fleeting visit to Hooters (after an obsession by a certain member of the group) we ...
Panama City day 2
... us out to the Canal, and Gamboa, the Tropical Rain forest resort area which includes a tram ride, and a monkey island boat ride. The panama canal is worth seeing When we were there we got to see a container ship and a submarine (rare event) pass ...
Wish Me Luck
I know it´s been a while since I´ve updated. Sorry! I don´t have much time to write. Heading to the South Pacific on the 38-foot sailboat Lunambule, with a final destination of New Caledonia. We´re heading to the Galapagos hopefully this ...
Always something...
... not been the case in our stateside healthcare experiences. All of this necessitated another visit with Dr. Lucy before leaving Panama which, of course, extended our stay here. More high winds and days of heavy rain this past week hindered our ...
Rain, Rain, Rain!
... morning we caught our first bus leaving Boquete to David. From the David bus terminal we bought a ticket for the noon bus heading towards Panama City. We got off at a stop just outside of Anton where there was a junction that lead up to El Valle. We ...
Missed flights and a side trip
... it was 10am. According to the clock in the taxi it was 11:00am. We forgot there was a one-hour time difference in Panama. *#&$^$*#(@!!!!!! After exploring our options and learning the next flight to Bocas wasn't until Wednesday, we decided to take an ...
Tyndall Air Force Base visit
I got to travel to sunny Florida and visit with Mike's brother Ron. Ron had been in the United States Air Force since 1981 and is retiring tomorrow as a LT Colonel. I like all the fighter planes around here. This is a training base for the pilots ...
Rio Sereno border crossing
... place that we were in, full of tropical butterflies, flowers, birds and even some capuchin monkeys! Throughout Costa Rica and Panama, we have seen a very large and interesting parasitic tree called a matapalo, or strangler fig. ...
What a difference a flight makes!!!!
As previously mentioned we had changed our plans and were no longer going to drive back the 8 hours to Alto Boquete, our base. We had booked flights, It was a pleasure to arrive in under an hour no stress, we even had the chance to call at the ...
Good morning PANAMA!
Good morning Panama! Woke up at around 11, Meli made us bolillos (not sure how to describe them…think of a hot dog made of masa, but that kinda tastes like cheese) and queso fresco. Delicious! OMG AND COFFEE! COOOOOOOOOFFEEE I LOOOOVE THE COFFEE!!!! ...
Jungle Island Fun!
... repetoire. His name was johnson and he had a gold tooth, quite a cool guy! Anyway we have to leave tomorrow as wel only have one week left and want to go to a village in a volcano crater before Panama city, is sad to leave this sweet ...
Who needs a car?
... live in this area in little wooden huts carrying their goods by use of a strap around their heads. As most of Panama, the adult population live a rural life tending their animals, dressed accordingly, the most surprising thing is that the kids ...
HORSE RIDE INTO THE HILLS
... on tours the only other way is hiring a car, which we decided to do today after a horse riding tour. Quite honestly Panama is a great country to drive around and had we known this we would have preferred the independence of 'going alone’ and ...
REFUGE, RAIN AND FOOTIE
This morning was lazy. In fact most of our time here was lazy. This isn't good for the Priest family – so we were getting a bit cranky. This morning we took a visit to the Animal Refuge which the kids loved as they heard such heart rendering ...
Stopover in Panama
I needed to throw this stopover in. Apparently refueling stops count towards the total in the Traveler's Century Club(See my entry from Dec 29, 2008). We'll definitely come and do more here again when we do a Central American trip. As it was, I did ...
Buenos dias.
... experience, we´ll be back there for a couple more days before we come home, but that can wait. So right now, we´re in Panama, and not many people speaka the English. Having said that, we no speaka Espanol! We plan to take a few spanish lessons though, ...
SURPRISE! This is Now Your Study!
One Sunday after meeting I was out in service with the only elder in our congregation, Juan Barerra, Meredith, Olympia, Pedro and Edward. All 6 of us crammed into Juan's tiny Toyota. That seems crazy and unsafe doesn't it? It was a big shocker ...
New Years in Misty Boquete
... one and in hindsight I should have bought the small ones. They are so heavy, oops! Oh well, we´ll do another shipment before leaving Panama. We still really wanted to do our hike so on our last day (New Years Eve) we took a taxi to the trailhead. It ...
Bastimentos- exploring some of the interior
Today we hiked back into the nature reserve that Eclypse de Mar owns and also went beyond it until it got too thick and muddy. We were looking for the sloths, iguanas and caimen that live in the area but no luck. We did see a few poison-arrow frogs, ...
Panama Canal
... the construction from extreme hardship and disease. Most digging at that time was done by hand using spades, shovels and dynamite. Panama Canal is a lock type canal which is 50 miles long, uniting the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. The canal officially ...
Panamanian Dentist and the Canal in one day
... partaking in 'medical tourism.' After my happy morning at the dentist, we spent the rest of Friday afternoon at the Panama Canal. I can honestly say I was completely and utterly impressed! I had no idea how technologically advanced my fellow Americans ...
Sailing from Panama to Colombia
After touring through Central America, my next flight is leaving from Bogota in Colombia. Passing by road from Panama to Colombia is not possible due to the Darien gap, so I had decided pretty early on to do a boat trip via the San Blas archipel. I read a ...
Growing city
... fringed causeway, seeing also the three islands that were made of the earth taken out of the Gailard Cut of the Panama Canal. Besides sightseeing, I went to the many shopping malls and cinemas. Uptil today I have seen three films. For the famous ...