Killer Bees in Panama and Why Monsanto Sucks
Yes that’s right folks! Killer Bees are in Panama and have been for a long time. Africanas as they are called here are seen quite often. The local fire station here in Pedasi makes on average a couple of trips a week responding to calls of Africanas colonizing in roofs, electricity transformers, old buildings and [...]
ISA World Surfing Championships in Playa Santa Catalina
Local boy Oli Camerena takes it to the pros in Santa Catalina! Like most participants of a sport, the more one practices and improves in a sport, the more one enjoys watching a talented participant of that sport. Surfing is no different. When any average surfer sees a talented surfer in the water ripping the [...]
La Joya de Chicá – Bed and Breakfast near Campana National Park
La Joya de Chicá is a new bed and breakfast at the edge of the mountainous Parque Nacional de Campana in the small community of Chicá, just a short drive off the Inter-americana highway, between Panama City and Playa Coronado. The beautiful hotel is owned by a friendly Canadian expat who invested in an abandoned over [...]
Language Hiccups in Panama. I am Hot or Oh baby I am so Hot!
I had anxiously awaited my first trip to Panama to visit my son. In preparation I had found a spanish language learning site online and grasped a few words. A friend had given me a language dictionary that was literally printed on a fan. When you opened it up, on one side was Spanish and [...]
Discovering Surfing Talents End of Summer Party
To be young again, wouldn’t it be nice. Play, eat, repeat. Play, eat, repeat. Those were the days! At the Discovering Surfing Talents end of Summer Party – play, eat, repeat was the itinerary for the kids in attendance. There was a BBQ, a birthday party complete with a piñata full of candy, a soccer [...]
Your Name Is? House Painting and Romance in Pedasi
I had just arrived in Panama and within a week was moving in to my new home. The first thing on the agenda was to have the house painted. My son hired two young men who were at my house everyday for six days painting away. Needless to say we developed some sort of rapport. [...]
Nitro City Action Sports Resort Punta Chame
Nitro City Panama is a unique waterfront resort specializing in entertaining the young thrill seeker. I have been a guest at many different hotels throughout my traveling life, but never one like Nitro City Action Sports Resort. Motocross track, skateboard park, lake wake, kite boarding and more; Nitro City is set up for fun! The extreme [...]
Aquacai Natural Artesian Water Factory Tour
On the edge of the Acai Rain Forest and the Panama Canal Watershed, north of the small town of Capira, sits the incredibly modern Aquacai artesian water bottling plant. Internationally sold natural artesian water, Aquacai is Panama’s premier bottled water. Aquacai has a state of the art factory on over 400 hectares adjacent to some of Panama’s [...]
Maisell’s Restaurant, El Valle, Panama
Maisell’s Restaurant is on the main drag when driving (or walking) through El Valle. Just down from the Public Market on the opposite side of the street you will find Maisell’s in an unassuming, two-story building. The sign is large so you can’t miss it. There are a few places to park directly in front [...]
Rio Pedregal Playa Cambutal
Panama has an abundance of deserted beaches.Of course on weekends or holidays many beaches are full of visitors getting away for a nice day at the beach, but the majority of playas en Panama are nearly empty most days. I recently had family visiting from the United States. We spent a weekend at the Hotel [...]
