Travel to Panama City
Located on the Pacific Coast is Panama City, capital with a total population of 1 million inhabitants. Beautiful for its beaches and paradisiacal places is the most cosmopolitan and exciting city in Central America.
Regarded as a "bridge of the world and Heart of the Universe", privileged by its excellent geographical location is an important center for banking and international trade.
Despite being a great modern city with its towering skyscrapers, Panama has preserved much of the best of its past with the ruins of the old Panama and its former colonial core known as the Old Town, recently named World Heritage by UNESCO .
Language: Spanish, and English is commonly spoken and understood in urban centers.
Its monetary unit is equivalent to just Balboa U.S. Dollar, which is legal use throughout the country.
Its climate is warm tropical with an average temperature of 27 degrees centigrade.
Panamanians are usually friendly and experts in their dealings with people from around the world.
With an exciting nightlife, fine dining, the only tropical rainforest in the world within a city - The Metropolitan Natural Park and countless residential neighbourhoods and precious accentuate the charm of the city
What to do in Panama City
- Walk along the Casco Antiguo (Old Town). This is the gem of Panama City. If you only have time to do one thing, this is what we should do.
- Visit the ruins of Panama Viejo.
- Go to dinner at the Calzada de Amador. (The Causeway) is a narrow strip of land that connects to 3 islands, with its fabulous restaurants and impressive view of Panama City.
- The walk through the Panama Canal is definitely something that needs to be done. There are museums, cinemas and observatories where you can see huge boats and cruise ships pass through the locks 3 linking the two oceans.