Central America
Panama
Where two oceans meet and three cultures blend.
The culture
Panama City pairs a UNESCO-listed colonial old town with a skyline that looks like Miami's, and at its edge the canal still moves the world's shipping. It is the most cosmopolitan city in Central America and the easiest place to understand how the Americas were stitched together.
Spanish colonial, Afro-Antillean and Indigenous histories overlap here in a way you can see on one street. The canal brought workers from Barbados and Jamaica whose descendants gave the country its music, its food and its Carnival.
Experience
After dark
The bridge
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Driver
Panama City, Panama
Fifteen years driving in Panama City and across the interior. I know every road to the canal, the beaches and the highlands, and I am at the airport before you land.
Spanish · English
15 years with travelers