Some envision Panama as a paradise filled with white-sand beaches and beautiful bikini-clad girls. But you’ll find this tiny tropical powerhouse is much more. Here, the value is in the variety. In the highlands, verdant valleys and rolling hills offer spring-like weather year-round...In the thrumming metropolis, a scintillating skyline excites and invites...
People flock to Panama for many reasons—the excellent healthcare, the exciting culture, and the exquisite scenery, to name a few. But the bottom line...the primordial question...is always the same: what’s it going to cost? Panama remains ultra-popular because it consistently delivers.
It’s one of Panama’s newest expat destinations, with all the amenities you could want in an overseas retirement haven. There’s high-speed Internet, inexpensive restaurants, good clinics and hospitals, and a burgeoning expat community. It’s a fast-growing city and the busy domestic airport is being expanded. But the real allure of David, capital of Panama’s Chiriquí province, is its strategic location. David is a hub for the region’s best vacation spots: natural hideaways like the lush green highlands to the north or the many beaches on the Pacific and Caribbean.
David, the capital of Chiriqui, is becoming more and more popular as expats discover the delights of living amongst Panama’s successful ranchers.
Ingrid Senne spends a great deal of time at the beach, doing yoga, or exploring the villages near her new home in Pedasí, Panama—“especially the tiny ones,” she says. Las Tablas, just 15 minutes away, is one of Panama’s best-known rural colonial towns…a place where local traditions thrive and where Carnival season engrosses the entire town.
Some envision Panama as a paradise filled with white-sand beaches and beautiful bikini-clad girls. But you’ll find this tiny tropical powerhouse is much more. Here, the value is in the variety. In the highlands, verdant valleys and rolling hills offer spring-like weather year-round...In the thrumming metropolis, a scintillating skyline excites and invites...
People flock to Panama for many reasons—the excellent healthcare, the exciting culture, and the exquisite scenery, to name a few. But the bottom line...the primordial question...is always the same: what’s it going to cost? Panama remains ultra-popular because it consistently delivers.
Fireworks explode in the sky above me. Reflected in the Panama Bay, I see fiery skyrockets, tungsten stars, and spidery bursts of pink, purple, and green. It’s the celebration of the Chinese New Year—an event Panama City has adopted as its own and celebrates with gusto.
Amid the towers of steel and chrome waft the tantalizing smells of seafood and spices. Argentine, Cuban, Swiss, German, Thai, and Indian are only a few of the offerings you’ll find today in Panama City. Back home you may find yourself banished to the burbs for affordable food. But here you can eat at the finest gourmet restaurants in the financial district where the beautiful people play...
I’m sipping rich coffee—just poured from a French press—when it happens. A white horse ambles by, no rider or groom in sight. Behind him, there appears another… his chestnut brother. Single file they clippety-clop into focus and I make a mental note: Favorite image of the day.