Articles tagged with "Panama"
Panama is one of the easier countries in the region to travel slowly. The distances are short, the medical care in the capital is genuinely good, and the heat is the thing to plan around rather than the terrain.
Panama splits sharply in two for a traveler with a mobility impairment. Panama City is among the more workable capitals in the region, and almost everything that makes Panama famous beyond it involves a boat.
Panama has two distinct Black histories and they are usually collapsed into one. The Congos of the Caribbean coast descend from people who escaped slavery in the sixteenth century. The Afro-Antillean community arrived to build the canal.
Panama takes its festivals seriously enough to close for them. Knowing when the big ones fall is the difference between arriving into something extraordinary and arriving into no available rooms.
Panama is a crossroads that has been one for five centuries, and it is more comfortable with outsiders than most places. That does not make everything open, and the lines that do exist are worth knowing.
Panama has been a place everything passes through for five hundred years, and the food shows it. The national dishes are simple and the influences behind them are not.
Panama is unusual in this region: nothing in the advice this cluster cites advises against travel anywhere in the country. What it gives instead is one line and one condition, and this guide keeps that distinction intact.
Panama is small and mostly well connected, and it has one genuinely modern metro system and several journeys that are an experience whether or not you wanted one.
Panama is hot and humid almost everywhere and cold in one specific place. The packing problem is humidity rather than temperature, and the second problem is that some of the best parts of the country sell nothing.
Panama uses the United States dollar. The balboa is the national unit, it is pegged one to one, and you will only ever meet it as change in your hand.