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I just returned from a visit to the Red Frog Rainforest Resort, the former Red Frog Beach Club on Bastimientos Island in Bocas del Toro. The change of name is appropriate. This is the same amazing place with  3 miles of white sand beaches and 1600 acres of pristine rainforest jungle, but with a whole [...]

Title: In Panama, a taste of the tropics and a new state of mind Finally! Panama has not had an tourism article in a major US publication  for over two years. A delightful Los Angeles Times article with a focus on Boquete and Boca Chica. Check it out here: http://www.latimes.com/travel/la-tr-panama-20100228,0,5687559.story?page=1 Note that a highlight of the authors trip was a [...]

Panama is such a great place that a lot of people would love to live and do business here. To prevent too many foreigners from living here and to promote investment, the Panama government does not make it easy to live here.   Tourist visa: The tourist visa you get when [...]

Every year our family goes to Boquete after Christmas. One of our favorite activities while there is rafting. In the last two years we been privileged to go  rafting with Boquete Outdoor Adventures. (BOA)  Their staff  really outdo themselves to make sure you  have a really fun and perfectly enjoyable trip. As we ride those [...]

It is a cliche that no one likes to go to the dentist. However,  the Richard Ford Dental Spa makes going to the dentist as pleasant as can be. I needed a root canal and I had been putting it off- dreading it based on one previous miserable experience.   I understood the English expression that [...]

Panama’s Tourism Ministry has established a tourism hotline for all  tourists in Panama.  Now tourists  have somewhere to call for tourist information and  for any special problems- for example  if they are lost, been robbed or are having a problem with police etc.  Hotline operators speak four languages: English, Spanish, French and Portuguese.  The number [...]

Every year our family spends a few days  in Boquete during the Christmas break and we usually stay at Villa Marita. We love Villa Marita for a number of reasons- starting with it’s location-  a few minutes from downtown Boquete up  on a mountainside plateau with spectacular views  of Volcan Baru.  I so look forward [...]

Congrats to Canopy Tower proprietor Raul Arias de Para for putting Panama on the map for ecotourism and world-class birding. Selected again and again as one of the top ecolodges in the world, and praised in the New York Times, National Geographic, the Wall Street Journal and Travel and Leisure,  Canopy Tower is celebrating it’s [...]