03-23-2008
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#34 (permalink)
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Senior Member
Join Date: Mar 2008
Location: San Francisco
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Hot Spots
In no particular order...- Casco Viejo (colonial quarter)
- Amador Causeway (retreat from the incessant energy of the city)
- Miraflores Locks (Panama Canal visitors center)
- Las Bóvedas (Casco Viejo's seawall promenade)
- Ancon Hill (sweeping panoramic views of city)
- Metropolitan Natural Park (where nature and urbanism collide)
- Pedestrianized shopping strip (Central Ave's people-watching mecca)
- Balboa Ave. (scenic drive that merges views of bay and city skyline)
- Panama Canal and Bay cruises
- El Cangrejo (commercial nerve center of the city)
- Calle 50 (international banking center)
- Calle Uruguay (nightlife nerve center of the city)
- Panama Canal Railway (See tropical rainforest by train)
- Barro Colorado (island home to Smithsonian Tropical Research Institue)
- Gamboa Rainforest Resort
- Shopping Malls: Albrook (at internal bus/air terminal), Multicentro (Paitilla), Multiplaza (Punta Pacifica)
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"Few cities in Latin America can match the diversity, cosmopolitanism and sheer energy of Panama City..." - THE ROUGH GUIDE
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