Exploring Panama City – From Old over New Panama to the famous Panama Canal

By Anne  Kehmeier And another tour I was able to join: a city tour through the capital of Panama! In the morning we started from the middle of the city and immediately experienced the crazy and chaotic traffic of Panama City. After this interesting ride we arrived at Panama La Vieja where the ruins of [...]

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New Hotel in Casco Viejo

Recently  in Casco Antiguo, a stylish new hotel open it doors:. Casa del Horno, a boutique hotel located on Avenida B in the Colonial District in Panama City. Casa del Horno (The Oven House) is a majestic colonial property built by the French colony in the 1850s that served as a bakery. The building has [...]

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9th Panama Jazz Festival

From the heart of America to the rest of the world, the Panama Jazz Festival celebrates its 9th edition with concerts, jam sessions and events for the entire family. Additionally, during the week of the festival some of the best music schools of the Americas audition students for admission and scholarships and the participating artists [...]

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Amigo de Panama!

Amigo de Panamá – Friend of Panama is an online training program for international travel agents. The expertise of travel agents on Panama as a product, is the number one priority “FRIEND OF PANAMA”. Digital training through the Panama current information, provides access to the travel agent through advanced Internet, using technology. This new model [...]

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25 years after extreme drought on BCI

from STRI A new article by Kenneth Feeley from Florida International University, with STRI’s Stuart J. Davies, Rolando Perez and Stephen P. Hubbell and former staff scientist Robin B. Foster (now at the Field Museum, Chicago), was recently published as the cover article of the journal Ecology (April). The article, entitled “Directional changes in the [...]

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Marriott Announces New Property on Panama’s Pacific Coast for 2013

Panama City, Panama – July 11, 2011 — Marriott Hotels & Resorts announced plans in Panama City to develop the 180-room Casamar Marriott Panama Resort within the Casamar master-planned resort community on Panama’s Pacific coast.  The five-star resort, under a franchise agreement with Casamar Development, S.A. and Corporación Turística del Pacífico, S.A., will open in [...]

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Panama City will host 2012 Ironman Triathlon

Panama City will host an Ironman Triathlon on February 12, 2012.  Organized by the World Triathlon Corporation (WTC).  These grueling competitions are famous for their television coverage.  This first-ever event for Panama will be a 70.3 mile half triathlon.  Racers and spectators will see a lot of what Panama City is about through the event. [...]

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Biomuseo celebrates Biodiversity day in Panama

The Biomuseo design by Frank Gehry  is currently under construction on the Amador Causeway, but it is already celebrating international Biodiversity day with an outdoor fair called “El Suelo Está Vivo” (The Soil is Alive) on Sunday, May 22 from 10.00AM to 4.00PM Location: Old Officers Club, Amador Causeway, Panama City, Panama. For children from [...]

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How the Isthmus of Panama changed the world

From STRI – Smithsonian Tropical Reserach Institute web. The earth is not a solid or static mass. It is composed of segments — tectonic plates— that cover a shifting mantle. These plates have different movements. They crash into each other and separate, they slide and sink and emerge, forming mountain ranges such as the Andes [...]

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Panama Jazz Festival – 2011

Panama’s annual cornerstone cultural event, the 8th Panama Jazz Festival will be held January 10-15, 2011. With upwards of 100,000 people in attendance since the festivals 2003 inception, this year’s edition is dedicated to Panamanian pianist, Victor Nicolás “Vitín” Paz, one of the great trumpeters in the history of Latin music and one of the [...]

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