SECRECY KEPT WELL PANAMA
DIVING AND DEEP-SEA FISHING SPACE OF DISCOVERIES

Discovery

Panama is especially famous, on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean, for its channel connecting the Atlantic to the Pacific. However, the country has many other things to offer to the visitors. Panama has a luxuriant nature, at the same time wild and accessible. If the country has the same assets in term of spaces and biodiversity that its neighbor Costa Rica, he is however visited much less. It is a small paradise for the rare amateurs of species, excursion and bathe. To visit Panama is to carry out the rise of the Baru volcano, to discover the fauna and the flora of Darien and to taste with crystalline water of the coasts the Caribbean and the Pacific.

Identity

If it is a small country all in length, Panama is a state with the multiple facets. Its major asset is connection, Panama Canal between the Atlantic Ocean and Pacific Ocean. You will be able, during your travel, to discover pretty locks allowing the boats to pass. Near the Channel, the pretty capital of Panama City will enable you to discover treasures of civilisation. It has, in its center, a very old working with the colonial architecture classified with the Cultural World heritage of UNESCO. If the zone of Panama, including the capital and the Channel, is impossible to circumvent, it is also necessary to move away some to discover other natural wonders. In the East, most adventurous will discover the national park of Darien, also classified with UNESCO and abounding in surprising species whereas the paradisiac amateurs of small islands can be stretched out on the hot sand islands of the zone of Traded of San Blas.

The West of the country, completely different, is also very surprising with the archipelago Bocas del Toro and the Baru volcano, superb top which dominates the rest of the country. True destination of dreamed, Panama will enchant you with his wild nature, its single Channel in the world and its archipelagoes strewn with paradisiac small islands. Tourist than his neighbor Costa Rica, Panama offers a diversity of fauna and flora and mountainous and coastal landscapes without similar.

Culture & Traditions

THE DIVING

Panama is the ideal destination to discover the underwater world. You will be able to observe a stunning marine animal-life in particular with the archipelago of Bocas del Toro, in the islands of San Blas, Portobelo, Playa Rio Mar and Playa El Palmar. For a completely atypical experiment, outward journey to plunge with the sharks whales which migrate in Panamanian water.

ETHNIC GROUPS

A stay in Panama is also the occasion of going to the meeting of its inhabitants who represent 230,000 inhabitants. You will be able in particular to discover Breaking-Breakings, Embaras, Wounaans, the Ngöbe-Bugle, Gunas and Naso Teribe. Each one of these ethnos groups knew to keep its ancestral traditions and its habits. Most these ethnos groups are established at the western ends and is country.

NATURE

Panama, it is a travel in the middle of idyllic beaches with corals which shelter stunning marine species as well as tropical forests which are used as natural habitat with incredible species, of which some in the process of disappearance. You will be able in particular to discover more than 900 species of birds, lazy, the quetzals, the toucans and even of the coatis.

PANAMA CANAL

Panama Canal east without any doubt the most famous place of the country. This channel separates the Atlantic Ocean from the Pacific Ocean and is the required passage of several thousands of boats a year. You will be pleased to see the splendid locks which compose the channel.

Essential

Panama enjoys a tropical climate. From December to April, the country knows one dry season. It is the best period to go there. The rainy season goes from May to November approximately. On the Caribbean coast, precipitations are much more important than on the rest of the country.

BETWEEN 24° AND 29°
THE BALBOA PANAMÉEN
-6 SUMMER / -7 WINTER
SPANISH
PANAMA
SANCOCHO

Form your trip

The stages

PANAMA CITY

Capital of Panama, Panama City guarantees a single stay to you behind its scrapes-ciels disconcerting which skirts its picturesque bay. And due, this modern city knew to keep the magic of the Caribbean in spite of its real estate projects of scale. Your steps will certainly carry out you in the district of “Casco Antiguo”, classified world heritage of humanity. Do not miss the district by “Panama Viejo” with his Spanish vestiges going back to 1519. Benefit from the idyllic panorama since the green hill of Anton, since whom you will see with broad the wearing of Balboa as well as the bridge of Americas, connecting North America and South America. After you to be restored in one of the inns of charm of Flamingo, try your chance in one of the many casinos of the city before you to melt in the cosmopolitan mass of Panama, in Central Avenidad. Assured emotion!

PANAMA CANAL

As the Panamanians say proudly it “Panama is not known if one did not visit the channel”.  Inaugurated in 1914, this legendary oceanic road connects the Gulf of Panama to the Caribbean Sea making it possible to reduce of almost 13,000 km the sea route between San Francisco and New York. This zone of the country gives to the travellers many opportunities of visits. You will be able in particular to discover the impressive locks of Miraflores and Gatùn which brew several hundreds of thousands of liters of water each day. The region of the channel is also a natural sanctuary out of commun run with two major national parks, that of Soberania which acts ornithological as paradise and that of Chagres also known under the name of territory of the crocodiles.

PROVINCE OF COLÒN

Historical place of Panama, it is by the littoral of this province that the country at summer discovered by Rodrigo de Bastidas in 1502. Testimonies of the Panamanian colonial history, the ruins of the fortresses of San Lorenzo and Portobelo, classified with the World heritage of UNESCO, are one of main attractions of the area. Between its fortresses and its churches, in particular that of Christ Black, the province of Colòn is a high place of the afro-caribéenne and colonial culture of the country.

THE ARCHIPELAGO SAN BLAS

The majority virgins, the paradisiac islands of the archipelago of San Blas expect you for a total expatriation. You will have, as far as the eye can see, of the white sand beaches, transparent water, splendid underwater fauna and coral reefs remarkable. Paradise of the snorkeling, leave on a tour of these seabeds and swim with complete freedom with coloured fishes. Do not miss either the picturesque Indian villages Kunas, facts of huts in bamboo and admire their wives to weave Molas. Near the archipelago is, in addition, the island of Taboga with its tropical jungle, its idyllic beaches and its reserve of black pelicans of South America.

BOCAS DEL TORO

True corner of paradise, the archipelago of Bocas del Toro offers opportunity to you of discovering its remarkable seabeds and its idyllic beaches, bathing under the sun with length of year. Gaining on the Caribbean, this archipelago proposes many spots of scuba diving to you, with its red corals and its transparent water. On the beaches, you will be able to observe in all quietude the turtles, and to be stretched out. You will be conquered by the afro-caribéenne atmosphere, where nothing has importance except for idleness! It is besides in this spirit that the Park Marin de Bastimentos evolves with his important concentration out of dolphins, giant tortoises and fishes in any kind.

VERAGUAS AND THE ISLAND OF COIBA

The most ignored area of Panama, Veraguas is a destination 100% nature. The island of Coiba is without question the principal tourist attraction of the province. This archipelago of 38 islands and small islands, classified with the Heritage of UNESCO, is surrounded of the coral reefs widest of the American Pacific Coast. This paradise of the marine animal-life offers to the plungers a show without similar, enabling them to observe an exceptional fauna made up of sharks, whales, dolphins and other marine tortoises.

JUNGLE OF DARIEN

For most adventurous, the jungle of Darien proves to be a true destination out of beaten paths, sheltering an exceptional variety of fauna and flora. It in this forest, one of is explored in the world, than live the Wounans Indians. A local ethnos group living mainly in family, without economic chief nor structure, and whose main activities are hunting, the fishing season and agriculture. A forwarding in the middle of this jungle promises to the travellers an experiment of a rare authenticity

PÉNINSULE OF AZUERO

Guardian of the folk traditions of the country, the peninsula gathers two emblematic provinces of the Panamanian culture, Herrera and Los Santos. Of passage in the area, you will not fail to discover the local habits and the picturesque villages which make all the charm of this unique place. To remain in the area during the carnival is an unforgettable experiment, the streets of the town of Mow Counted see ravelling, during five days, a number impressing of tanks and traditional costumes.

CHIRIQUI AND BOQUETE

This green area which borders Costa Rica is famous for its flowers and its coffee. The many national parks and the Barù Volcano offer to the amateurs of nature of superb excursions in the middle of the jungle where it is not rare to observe the “star” local, the quetzal. Beyond the hills covered with a luxuriant vegetation where live innumerable species such as the jaguar, the tapir or the stag with white tail, this region also has wild and preserved beaches where it is possible to from June to November observe the passage of the humpback whales. In addition to the discovery of this nature out of commun run, you will also have the opportunity of discovering another of the ethnos groups autochtones, Ngobes Bugle, true Masters of the local arts and crafts.

VOLCANO BARU

Principal summit of Panama, the extinct volcano of Barú waits you for many activities in the open air, until it is the mountaineering, the climbing or the excursion. Culminating with 3.475m of altitude, within the National park of the Barú volcano, this remarkable top guarantees to you from the idyllic points of view on the Pacific and the Caribbean. During the rise of this top formerly covered with snow, you will fall under the charm from its tropical forests and its considerable agricultural fields taking into account the fertility from the ground. On the spot, do not miss the occasion besides to make kayak and white water rafting in many waterways which irrigate these picturesque sides.

ARCHIPELAGO DE LAS PERLAS

Composed by nearly 200 paradisiac islands, the archipelago of Mow Beaded is a true rare “pearl” of Panama. Even if the pearls of its turquoise water were dried up since the colonial time, this idyllic corner is a true treasure that no one cannot be unaware of. You will be conquered by its immense white sand beaches, its hotel complex in full rise and especially, by the wealth of its seabeds. It is the place of observation besides par excellence humpback whales, during the period of migration which goes from June to November.

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