Panama

Blah... Panama City Panama City, Panama As we flew down the highway in the back of a sweltering bright-yellow taxi staring at the distant skyline of Panama City, the excitement of finally being in Panama was really high, but something also just felt a bit 'off' already in those first few minutes. It was dinnertime, but the ...

Casco Viejo: Panama City's Historic District Panama City, Panama Founded in 1519, Panama Viejo is the original part of Panama City and the oldest European settlement on the Pacific Coast of the Americas. It was a point of departure for the first explorations of the Pacific Coast and most likely, indigenous population slaughter (I didn't ...

The Panama Canal Panama City, Panama The Panama Canal, designated as one of the "Seven Wonders of the Modern World and a Monument of the Millennium" (American Society of Civil Engineers), took nearly 400 years to complete. In 1513, Spain's Vasco Nunez de Balboa was the first person to navigate and cross the Isthmus to the Pacific Ocean, ...

Boquete: Coffee, Waterfalls, and a Big Volcano Boquete, Panama Boquete, Panama at the base of Volcan Baru, is a perfect spot to grow coffee plants because they flourish in temperate climates, on hillsides (for drainage), and in volcanic soil. Higher elevations also cause the coffee bean to grow more slowly, leading to a more aromatic ...

A Ngobe Community Visit - Hola Keem! Isla San Cristobol, Panama A light smoke from cooking fires hung above the jungle as our boat got closer to Isla San Cristobal, Panama. We continued along shore and entered into a smaller channel through the mangroves and into the island. "Hola Keem!" I looked over to see ...

San Cristobal in Pictures Isla San Cristobol, Panama Back in April, we spent a night an on the Isla San Cristobal, which is an island just south of Isla Colon in the Bocas Del Toro archipelago, Panama. Bocas del Toro is well known for being a tourism hot-spot, but San Cristobal, a short 20-minute boat ...

Bocas Town Bocas del Toro, Panama I've been trying to figure out what to write about the next part of my Central American trip, Bocas del Toro, but I don't really have anything. After such a a unique experience on San Cristobal, it's kind of hard to compare and say much about. The Bocas del Toro ...