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.
Marvin and Joanne Riddle don’t just enjoy “the best of both worlds”… they enjoy the best the whole world has to offer them.
Panama City is a destination itself. You have the canal, one of the seven modern wonders of the world… the historic Casco Viejo neighborhood, a UN World Heritage site… the Smithsonian-affiliated Frank Gehry-designed Bridge of Life Museum… But even the most die-hard city slicker can use an escape on occasion. Here are five worthwhile, easy-to-reach getaways:
Panama offers a range of residency options for the would-be investor. Here is how to secure yours.
The Roussel children are no strangers to adventure. Perhaps that’s because Jonah, 11, and Elijah, 18 months, have traveled rather more than your average Canadian youths. Mom and Dad—Susan, 37, and Denis, 35—are self-confessed globetrotters. It helps that Denis is able to work from anywhere.