Hotel el Panama

... , but this time we have a little more time to take a walk around San Jose's Center. I had made some trip companions from Panama: A Couple from Chiriqui and a lady from Cocle. I take them to a short walk around the "Peatonal", in those days they were ...

... en pizzeria y come pizza delicioso. Despues fui a los montañas y era muy lindo. Esta mirando a los montañas hasta llega al hotel. El hotel se llama el Oasis B & B (cama y desayuno). Despues fui bajo las escaleras y se sienta en una mesa y ...

... But like so many people, he had a dream. In his case, since the age of 15 he had a dream of buying and managing a hotel. El Valle de Anton provided the right combination of a rustic resort town with a well-located hotel with lots of potential at a price ...

... no puedo. Luego los Americanos viene y complete el canal de Panama. ¡Viva America! Despues de la Panama Canal, fue a comprar regalos. En el Panama Canal compro una peluche. Era una Perrico. Despues des cena, fui al'hotel y dormi. Mañana, voy a ...

... morning. Hope it's good! We have had three VERY different views of Panama City from our three hotels: From Hotel Acapulco - Panama City is a bustling, traffic-choked place, very loud, very smoggy. During the day, keep an eye out around ...

... à la foule autour de moi et d'apprendre 3 nouvelles phrases dans mon guide d'espagnol, que me revoila déjà reparti. J'embarque pour Panama, le vol dure à peu près 3h de temps. Vue de haut, Panama est un oasis naturel en plein océan; des ...

... road through the mountains. When we arrived in El Valle it was like we had stepped into a whole new world. The contrast between El Valle and Panama City was unbelievable given that we had only travelled two and a half hours up the road. El Valle is built ...

... in Spanish, Yimmy) drove us around the old town Casco Viejo looking for a reasonable budget hotel. Viewing Casco Viejo across the water from Panama City central it appeared like a slice of Venice transplanted in Central America. Panama seems ...

... most visitors are retirees, some foreigners, others Panamanian. And then we run into the most unlikely building in the highlands of Panama: "Hotel Pekin" (full-blown chinese hotel and store. We can't resist: we have to eat lunch at the restaurant. This ...

I woke up at 4 am and head up to the Vancouver Airport. When I arrived to Panama City the heat was unbearable. After 12 hour flight, all I wanted was a shower, a cold beer and a smoke. Landing in Panama City the view from the airplane was beautiful. I ...

... to fall out on the most wild drop. Felt a bit warm and needed the swim, Nick says.   Last stop before Panama City was a town situated inside the crater of a (inactive....) volcano called El Valle. Apparently millions of years ago the volcano ...

... also means bugs can crawl in, eewwwh. About 2 1/2 hours later, our bus pulls into the main bus terminal in Panama City. We catch a taxi to our Hotel Acapulco. The taxi ride takes us through some of the poorer areas of Panama City. We see old high rise ...

... area used to be the main area of Panama City until the richer people migrated around the coast slightly and built the modern Panama City of sky scrapers and shopping malls. Here there are old colonial buildings, some in good repair such as the ...

... the trip DOING fun things, not searching out the fun things to do.    We have two guidebooks for Panama (Lonely Planet and National Geographic guidebooks), but guidebooks don't really give much info for how to find culturally enriching stuff ...

... to come back to the boat. I could snorkel all day! hehe For our last full day trip we went out to El Valle that was about 2 hours or so from Panama City. This is a cute little town that has a great crafts fair all day Sundays. Here we went hiking and ...

... beach since 11am. When laying on the beach I saw Jon, he was by himself. They were staying at Cocomo on the Sea. Joey stayed in Panama City because he was so stubborn to see the Panama Canal. I told Jon that I was going to meet them later on. Linsey and ...

Hey everyone, Heres some photos from Playa El Palmar. Took a bus 1 1/2 hours north of Panama City. It is a beach on the Pacific side. Fun day at the beach. Nice hotel with air conditioning (YES!). The beach was beautiful! Next day, we rented a board for ...

... say that!¨ ¨Be quiet!¨  etc.  Finally, the bus made it through, and we all made it to Panama safely!  Que pilas el chofer! This small scare was compeletely worth it, because Panama was AWESOME!  We arrived in the city at about ...

... a friend and her family, Goose to fly back home the following day, and me to the bus station to take another bus (overnight) to Panama City.  After saying goodbye to Cicely and Goose I was completely on my own.     I got on my bus for ...