San Anton

Carmelle & Kandice (myself) traveling to Panama for 3 months to serve where the need is great and visit my friend Stephanie who is living here for 1 year. We are both Canadian, and this is our first experiance traveling outside of Canada & the US. I ...

This trip is based loosely on a theme ... Dancing round the world....trying as many different dances as logistically possible in 6 months - from Europe, through South America and Australasia. Hopefully this way not only will i see some amazing places but ...

Yo yo yo and welcome to Rachel and Bex BIG adventure...two Laaaadies travelling through Central and South America doing Laaaadies things such as pressing pretty flowers and surfing as they go!!

After a fairly sucessful run as an advertising executive in Austin, Texas, I decided to lease my house, sell my things,and quit my job to explore Central America. I have no agenda and no time constraints. I am on an open ended walk about and I love it!

... area is the Crater Valley Spa Hotel. If nothing else, their website gives a feeling of the lush beauty surrounding Valle de Anton. Explore the links for a better appreciation of the area. Don’t miss the "Location" link if you still have any doubts ...

... landscapes. The soil was a mixture of sand, salt and clay, so had eroded into some strange looking hills, valleys and caves. Anton's favourite part of the tour had to be running down the massive sand dunes. The tour ended at the top of a ...

... building where Ignatius was born and lived for most of his life.   We then got back on the bus and drove back to San Sebastian.  I took a short nap and then went out for pintxos.  I got a ham, cheese, and mushroom tempura-type pintxos, a ...

... of shopping districts and restaurants.  It was very beautiful with waterfalls, fountains, and palm trees.  It was here in San Anton that I finally found my cowboy hat...Greg and I just found it extremely necessary to buy these.  I mean a ...

... .  We caught a trolley bus, number 30 through the Stockton tunnel to Chinatown.  It was an interesting ride and Anton explained various aspects of life in SF as we went along, like the Asian population now outnumber the Hispanics and blacks in ...

... can't resist: we have to eat lunch at the restaurant. This is our first time in a chinese restaurant since we left San Francisco 6 months ago! The menu is quite eclectic, blending panamanian classics (Corvina a la plancha) with traditional chinese fares ...

... . Its crown is a moulded frieze that runs the Latin inscription that celebrates the developer of the building - the lawyer and ambassador Anton Franks Jacobo of the Counts Truschia - and is inscribed with the date of construction; 1539 . Inside there are ...

... from the beach, a 30 minute drive up a mountain, along its rim and into the canyon takes you to the quaint village of Anton-quiet, serene, and only lightly touched by outsiders who come here as a second residence away from PC. Driving through here was ...

Vida en el Valle de Anton El Valle is a charming seven square mile village surrounded by a volcanic caldera that had existed for millennia as a deep lake. Then several thousands years ago the crater sprung a leak and when the lake emptied some of the ...

We took a tour up to the Anton Valley. This is the area where all the locals that are rich build homes (or 'villas'). Most homes cost about a million dollars up there, so residents are either politicians or Americans with "summer" homes in Panama. Its ...