Panama

North America

Currency: USD

Language: Spanish

Panama is narrow enough to reach both oceans in a day, with the canal in the middle, cloud forest in the western highlands and two very different island archipelagos on each coast. Panama City mixes a colonial old quarter with a modern skyline. The country uses the US dollar, which simplifies budgeting.

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Panama City

Panama City faces the Pacific with a glass skyline on one side of the bay and the restored colonial Casco Viejo on the other. The canal locks are half an hour from the centre, and rainforest with monkeys and sloths starts at the city edge. Two days covers the old town, the canal and one forest walk.

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Green season: Afternoon rain, green forest, fewer visitors and lower rates.
Dry season: Sunny and breezy; the main travel window.

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