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It is nice to get a health treatment almost free. There are two hot springs that you can bathe in in Panama that cost next to nothing- one in Boquete and one in El Valle.  Our family just went for the firs time  to the hot springs near the small town of Rancho Caldera near [...]

Boquete offers amazing coffee farm experiences.  We just went with  Boquete Safari Tours on their  a new Three Coffee Estates tour, which perfectly  showcases the Boquete coffee experience. The tour takes you to three very different estate coffee farms to taste three kinds of coffee and experience three uniquely Boquete coffee farms. One farm is [...]

Both Boquete and Bocas have recovered from  the recent heavy rains and  are open and ready for your toursim business. Please find below a report from Bocas- you will see that Bocas is now ready to receive tourists.   Boquete is Ready for Tourists: I just spent 3 days in Boquete where I visited all the tourism [...]

Just spent the weekend in an important new eco-destination for Panama- Rancho de Caldera Eco-Retreat in Boquete.  A friend had told me it was “fabulous” and she was right. Where to start? Created by American couple Gina and Chris McCullough , the setting is idealic with sweeping mountain panoramic views.  The architecture is a delight [...]

Folks, Below is a list of confirmed 8 megaprojects and another huge one in the works  for 2008-2010. Panama is a tiny country- if only half of these projects actually get built it will do very well, but most of these projects are going to happen Megaprojects in Panama Confirmed for 2008-2010: 1.Canal widening: 2.8 billion 2. Petaquilla [...]

Panama like all countries will be effected by the US and worldwide economic downturn which looks like will continue for a couple of years.  However, in my opinion Panama will continue to do well economically inspite of the this worldwide downturn. Why? Several reasons. First, inspite of the US situation, these years will be a [...]

One of the best things about looking for a retirement home or vacation home in Panama is that there are several projects where you can live in the mountains but be just half an hour away from beaches and golf courses of the Pacific Coast area.  Las Nubes is one such project- a really beautiful [...]

One of the best things about looking for a  retirement home or vacation home in Panama is that there are several projects where you can live in the mountains but be just half an hour away from beaches and golf courses of the Pacific Coast area. Las Nubes is one such project-  a really beautiful [...]

My family from California recently visited from California and one of the places I took them was of course Boquete.  We decided to go river rafting with the John Miller’s Boquete Outdoor Adventures,  an outdoor adventure tour operator specializing in custom adventure travel vacations including river and ocean  kayaking and rafting.   John is a [...]

I just spent a weekend visiting Cerro La Vieja Hotel (CLV) in a private nature reserve in the mountains of Cocle province hosted by owner Alfonso Jaen and his fine family. Alfonso Jaen along with Carlos Alfaro of Los Quetzales in Chiriqui and Raul Arias de Para of Canopy Tower and Canopy Lodge [...]