Destination: Panama
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While Panama is known mostly for its famous canal, the country's natural attractions offer an irresistible lure to far-sighted travelers. This oft-overlooked country offers some of the finest birding, snorkeling and hiking in the Americas.
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Fri, 21 Feb 2025 | By graynomadsusa | Views [152]
OF PANAMA’S ROUGHLY ONE THOUSAND BIRDS, seven are found only in Panama. With our previous birding birding trips in nearby Columbia we had already seen all but 90 of the species. No, problem, though. This trip was not jus about birds—it was ... Read more >
Tue, 18 Feb 2025 | By graynomadsusa | Views [37]
ANOTHER EARLY START TODAY, first a van to Yaviza and followed by another panga ride on the Chucunaque River to El Real and onward by truck to the Embera village of Pijibasal where our Crested Eagle trek would begin.
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Mon, 17 Feb 2025 | By graynomadsusa | Views [130]
SUNDAY WAS AN EASY DAY, as if Oscar wanted to test our mettle. Breakfast at 6:15 followed by three hours of birding on Sendero el Balsal. This isn’t primary rain forest—much of it is a teak plantation—so we all piled into the back of ... Read more >
Sat, 15 Feb 2025 | By graynomadsusa | Views [87]
BIRDING IN DARIÉN HAS BEEN ON OUR RADAR for years. Until recently the logistics and cost were daunting, the rivers were frequented by drug smugglers and illegal immigrants and decent lodging was non-existent.
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Sat, 15 Feb 2025 | By graynomadsusa | Photo Gallery
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Sat, 15 Feb 2025 | By vagabonds3 | Photo Gallery
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Thu, 13 Feb 2025 | By graynomadsusa | Views [37]
WITH A LAUNDRY BAG FULL OF DIRTY CLOTHES and a few days to kill before we headed to the Darién rain forest, we booked an AirBnB just outside Casco Antiguo, Panama City’s Old Quarter.
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Wed, 12 Feb 2025 | By graynomadsusa | Photo Gallery
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Mon, 18 Nov 2024 | By graynomadsusa | Views [125]
THE PANAMA CANAL IS AN ENGINEERING MARVEL with a touch of political chicanery and a soupçon of colonialism thrown in for flavor. It was prohibitively expensive to build at the beginning of the Twentieth Century, both in dollars and lives lost ... Read more >
Wed, 23 Nov 2022 | By graynomadsusa | Views [165]
MAYBE YOU’RE WONDERING WHERE WE’VE been since Brazil. Or probably not. Anyway, we had airline tickets from Rio to Miami and were planning to stay in Fort Myers Beach until January but Hurricane Ian blew those plans away along with our condo ... Read more >
Sun, 13 Nov 2022 | By graynomadsusa | Photo Gallery
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Wed, 26 Dec 2018 | By mwollak | Views [262]
Going back to Minnesota is nice because I get to see my family that I really don't see that often but it is also draining and I almost always come back feeling more tired before I have to go back to work. So this year I decided to take my ... Read more >
Sat, 1 Sep 2018 | By mitann | Views [346]
Anyone travelling to a tropical destination envisions beaches with lounge chairs and umbrellas. We also thought there was a beach in Panama City; not exactly true. Taboga Island is your closest choice; not necessarily the best choice.
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Sat, 1 Sep 2018 | By mitann | Photo Gallery
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Fri, 31 Aug 2018 | By mitann | Views [511]
Every morning we wake up to the sound of bells. There is a beautiful church directly across the street from the hotel. They insistently ring the bells starting at 0600; a call to church. Although the church is nice looking and the bells are charming, ... Read more >
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