(International Living) After five years of writing about Panama for International Living, youād think writing about the best places to vacation in Panama would be a cinch. The more you know, the easier it should beā¦but the opposite is often the case. I know so many great places to vacation in Panama that itās hard to narrow it down to just a few. There are places like … [Read more...]
Bocas Flight and Hotel package save up to 50%
(Panama Travel Group) The package has two alternatives, the first includes three days / two nights, and the second includes five days / four nights, including airfare, accommodation, breakfast, hotel taxes and special discounts at restaurants. Prices are per person, based on double occupancy. Save up to 50% on a package which includes flight and hotel to Bocas … [Read more...]
Panama Hostel Review: Bocas Bound Lodge
(Sure-start.com) Close to Isla Colon, home of Bocas del Toro, Panama, the Bocas Bound Hostel lies as an āescape from Bocas,ā according to PR headman Peter Johnson. Compared to the acclaimed party town, it certainly is a vacation of sorts. Jazz music plays softly at the open-air āBocas Lounge,ā where backpackers and lodgers are free to hang out, drink, fraternize, and check … [Read more...]
Taking the pirates’ route from Colombia to the San Blas Islands
Lee Tamplin(WSJ.com) FAIR ISLES Lounging in the San Blas shallows At half-past nine in the morning the San Blas Islands, clustered off the coast of Panama, almost shine like found gems. Like lost doubloons. Like Caribbean treasure. We've been out to sea for three days, and while it's a yacht we're on and not a privateer, the first sight of land quickens … [Read more...]
Indigenous of Panama
(RichardDetrich) Indigenous groups that were in Panama when Columbus arrived . . . One of the remarkable things about this tiny, squiggly, isthmus of land joining together North and South America, is that there are SEVEN . . . thatās right seven! . . . Indigenous groups of people who were here before the Europeans arrived. Itās estimated that there may have been a … [Read more...]