The Miraflores Locks Visitor Center was a great place to see how the world famous Panama Canal works. While visiting Panama during our winter snow bird escape we enjoyed visiting Panama City. The canal contributes to 40% of Panama’s GDP, and 6% of the worlds maritime commerce. The visitor center is one of the stops […]
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We had a very enjoyable evening at La Ruina Restaurant, in Nueva Gorgona, Panama. The food was excellent and we were lucky to meet with the owner who enlightened us with so much of the history of the place and area in general. The restaurant has multiple seating area choices. Poolside in the back seems […]
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We decided to try Panama’s bus travel while snowbirding in Panama, since we discovered it was widely available, efficient and very inexpensive. We had to get from Boquete to Panama City, which would be a 7 hour drive if we rented a car. The main bus terminal is in David, so we took a $2 […]
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There are some really nice beachfront homes along the Coronado beach, when we walk west from Nueva Gorgona, crossing the small stream that separates Coronado from Gorgona. This is really part two of the Gorgona article and has been inserted there. It is about 3.5km walk from Royal Palm Condos to the white condos at […]
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While staying in the Pacific Coast Coronado area of Panama, we wanted to explore some of the surrounding areas and towns. We were actually based in Nueva Gorgona for a one month snowbird stay, and explored Gorgona mostly on foot as per this article. We rented a car for three days, and explored the following […]
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Our snowbird retirement journey has taken us to a beautiful Pacific coast beachfront condo in Nueva Gorgona, Panama, Central America. The Coronado area is well known by many expats from outside of Panama and is a little more than an hours drive from Panama City. Nueva Gorgona is a relative new comer to the development […]
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Our snowbird retirement has taken us to a beautiful expat friendly mountain valley town called Boquete in Panama. We really wanted to experience this part of Panama because of its “perfect” all year round high temperature of 26C (80F) that reminds me of a sunny day in spring or fall. It is cooler than the […]
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Our recent retirement journey has taken us to Panama as part of our new “Snowbird” lifestyle. We will be exploring three primary parts of Panama over a few months. Panama City to see the big city sky scrapers and canal, Boquete to see a mountain valley town popular with expats, and Nueva Gorgona on the […]
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We enjoyed a delightful tour of a small family owned coffee farm in Boquete, Panama. This area in Panama is known for coffee and produces “most expensive coffee in the world” Geisha coffee. There are numerous family owned coffee farms around Boquete, but we settled on one that was highly recommended by Trip Advisor, Cafes […]
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Panama can be attractive for retirees seeking an affordable warmer or cooler, spring like, climate. Next month we will start our Canadian Snowbird exploration of the cooler 26C (79F) high volcanic mountain jungle area, and the 29C (85F) beach areas, as well as the big cosmopolitan Panama City, which is where the Panama Canal begins […]
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