Hotel Las Olas Beach Resort
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Las Olas
Hello Friends, Sid is taking a break from the blog, so I am doing today's entry. The week at Las Olas was quite exciting. Las Olas is on the beach of Playa Barqueta. The beaches here on the Pacific side are mainly grey beaches, ie a mixture of black and white sand. Although I don't normally like the texture of black sand, here in Panama it isn't as …
Goodbye south America, Hello central America
... centre out to the
Miraflores Locks on the Panama Canal. The Panama Canal is what almost everyone
thinks of when mentioning the name Panama and understandably so as it is
without doubt one of the great engineering masterpieces of the modern world.
Constructed at huge cost in both money and lives and involving the blasting and
removal of massive amounts of rock it was finally completed on the second
attempt in 1914. Originally Ferdinand de Lesseps, the famous ...
Un poco de aire
... and drink some of the national beer called "Panama" while watching the Panama vs. Canada soccer match. When I saw the two guys sitting down drinking beers at about 1pm I asked what their plans were. They said they were gonna watch the game, which I figured was within the next hour. I found out later that the game was at 8pm. That's ...
Climb every mountain, or just get sloshed
... talked into another bottle of red by the owners, who are sitting in the reception forming an impromptu gathering with the other guests and some Damian Marley on the iPod. Stories are swapped, recommendations shared and intentions vocalised about how energetic and adventurous we all plan to be in the morning.....another glass of red gets poured. Can you guess how this ends?
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Superbowl Sunday (Take a Rock!)
... the very HOUR) after we arrived here in Volcan, the Ngobere people (one of the few indigenous tribes left here in Panama) staged a protest, blocking the Interamericana Highway and the road from David to here. We, completely unawares, made it here by the skin of our teeth. Now this has happened before apparently. From what I can gather, the government is selling the Ngobere lands right out from under them without their consent. :( Terrible. So they're ...
Amenities
- Restaurant
- Swimming pool
- Room service
- Free High-Speed Internet
- Beach
- Wheelchair accessibility
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