Panama City Hotels - Reviews and Rates

Hola! Sorry for the long delay in updates. This is just a brief entry to let you know what's been going on in the last couple of weeks. So, after leaving Boquete I headed for Lost and Found, an "eco-hostel" in the cloud forest. In my opinion this hostel is vastly over-rated and over-priced. What is essentially a good project, which encourages th...

Contrary to some of the beliefs and concerns expressed in recent emails i have received...... i am not dead, although at some point after Australia Day, when i decided to leave Puerto Viejo in Costa Rica and head south into Panama, i may have appeared so to some people who saw me. Thats the problem with Australia day.... they start drinking at 9...

The journey has begun and I have been hanging around Panama City the past four days. Just been walking the streets and eating the cheap and tasty food. 2.50 buys a huge plate. Too much to eat actually. Casco Viejo was a great day trip from the hostel. The drive there was great because our taxi was informing us about the area. He told us about ga...

All-in-all I had about 24 hours in Panama between arriving on the bus yesterday afternoon and flying out today. After a much needed 12-hours of sleep I headed out to the Panama Canal. The canal was pretty cool. I only went to the first (or last) set of locks, the ones that connected the Pacific Ocean to the canal and causes in two steps an incr...

Hey all! first off I have added another link of pics on the update before this one since this entry is dedicated to Panama only so check it out. So here's the scoop with me medically, since that IS the reason I came down here. I arrived on Feb. 13th via plane and Greg met up with later that day after his 30 (no i'm not kidding, 30) hour bus ride...

Sitting in an internet cafe in downtown Panama City and we´re actually here. Flights yesterday were great, no delays and beautiful landing into Panama City. We circled the entire city all lit up at night before coming down into the airport. The hotel picked us up at the airport and we got a decent night´s rest before beginning to explore this mo...

Today was a visit to the School of the Americas. The SOA was a training base for Latin American armies specializing in counter-insurgency strategy / low intensity conflict (LIC) and tactics. According to the SOA watch, the SOAs trained some of the most notorious human rights abusers in Latin American history. To check out its alumni, visit www....