Panama 🇵🇦 🌴

Panama Roadtrip (22.06-03.07) 🇵🇦

or maybe not! If you followed the news over the past few days, Panama suddenly made headlines - Panama declares emergency in western province after deadly pension protests 📰🪧

A new travel plan became necessary since the region around Bocas del Toro was in a state of emergency. Luckily, Panama City turned out to be a beautiful place, where we spent the first days:

• the Panama Canal (absolute highlight!) ⚓️🚢
• Bio Museum about the history of Panama 🗾🌋
• Coastway to Amador; one of the most beautiful roads that exist 🛣️🌴
• Casco Viejo - Old Town ⛪️
• and the good metro system :)

On recommendations, we then traveled to El Farallón del Chirú, where we had our accommodation in the local village with Lu all to ourselves thanks to the rainy season. The accommodation Acuarela was basically our homestay with shared meals, mango and passion fruit picking, visiting a giant tree, beach day, and terrace conversations. This made it hard to say goodbye...🥹❤️

Our next destination was El Valle de Anton in the mountains of Panama, where we spent a nice, slightly rainy time hiking, enjoying nature spas, visiting local markets, and the butterfly museum. ⛰️🦋

Continuing towards Costa Rica was not possible as roadblocks would significantly extend travel time. So it was back to Ciudad de Panama - once again with a wild bus ride. 😁 We were headed for Taboga Island, which was then fully booked... such bad luck at the moment... well, that didn’t stop us from enjoying a wonderful promenade walk and skyscraper sightseeing. 🌅🌴

The next morning, we took a wild bus ride via Colon to Portobelo, where we were greeted by the Caribbean Sea and sunshine. 🏝️ The small town, influenced by Kongo culture with an intense history (from Christopher Columbus, Spanish colonial times, slavery, piracy to today’s UNESCO World Heritage), fascinated us right away. 🏴‍☠️🛕 After some new delicious food - Fufu, we headed back to Panama City for one night because tomorrow we continue to - Colombia 🇨🇴!