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Central America Right now, I'm hopefully sitting up top a rooftop bar next to a pool and overlooking Panama City, Panama. We got down to Central America last night and since this is auto-posting, I have no idea if it's actually awesome or not, but barring a catastrophe, I'm assuming I'm pretty content right now ...

Blah, Panama City 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 just after 19:30 and the ...

Casco Viejo: Panama City's Historic District 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 read that last ...

The Panama Canal 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, attracting even early ...

Boquete: Coffee, Waterfalls, and a Big Volcano 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 and flavorful ...

A Ngobe Community Visit - Hola Keem! A light smoke from cooking fires hung above the jungle as our boat got closer to Isla San Cristobal, Panama. A new, large cement dock extended out into the small bay surrounded by stilted huts sitting above the boggy mangroves. The boat continued along shore and we entered ...

Isla San Cristobal in Pictures 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 ride away, is ...

Isla San Cristobal - Narciso's Farm I don't speak any Spanish, but his posture and attitude conveyed it all: Narciso was extremely proud of his farm; The largest on Isla San Cristobal. We stood in a light mist on the edge of a dry aqueduct as Narciso whistled blindly into a field. The rolling green ...

Bocas Town - Bocas del Toro 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 ...