Colon Enter the Panama Canal through the colonial city of Colon, which is home to many descendants of the Afro-Caribbean workers who helped build it. Its main attraction is the Colon Free Trade Zone, established in 1948 and housing over 1700 companies. You'll find anything and everything here, from pharmaceutical products to toys. While it's mostly wholesale, things such as … [Read more...]
Five reasons for a trip to Panama
(Vogue) 1 The boutique hotels in Panama City’s colonial neighborhood are a design-lover’s dream. Filled with a continuous hum of Caribbean music and decorated with the paint-chipped facades of Spanish and French colonial buildings, Casco Viejo—the city’s UNESCO-designated historic district—is Panama City’s vibrant, … [Read more...]
Rum and coffee are amazing in Panama
(USA Today) The release of thousands of documents exposing secret offshore accounts of politicians and actors, recently rocketed Panama onto the global radar. But the country’s best assets are not the ones bankers are hiding, rather the ones bartenders and baristas are pouring. Connoisseurs of booze and caffeine have known what the rest of the world is just discovering now: … [Read more...]
Traveling to San Blas Islands in Panama
(Travel + Leisure) Harboring fantasies of being a castaway on a deserted island? Consider a trip to Panama’s San Blas islands. There are 365 pieces of paradise scattered in the Caribbean, just off the coast of Panama: the San Blas Islands. More than 300 of them are uninhabited, all are coated in coconut palms, and most are too small for Google maps to bother with. The … [Read more...]
Wealthy travelers prefer Panama
(Marinelink) Panama saw the most significant growth in bookings —107 per cent — compared to the previous year for the travel period between January and March of 2016, says luxury travel boutique Virtuoso. After Panama, Thailand and Switzerland round out the top three spots for highest growth in bookings. Panama may have languished under the shadow of its more popular … [Read more...]