Panama Attractions
Our list of noteworthy Panama attractions and places to see in Panama, from the must-see tourist landmarks to the top local attractions.
Gatún Lake
The glistening, artificial heart of the Panama Canal, Lago Gatún covers what was once the fertile Chagres River Valley, until 1907 home to scores of small ... Continue Reading »
Monkey Island
This popular excursion offers a festive excuse to explore a bit of the Canal, visiting an island that has been "taken over" by four species of monkey: ... Continue Reading »
Panama Canal
By any estimation among the grandest public works projects in the history of humankind, the Panama Canal is an engineering triumph that cost US$350 million, ... Continue Reading »
Miraflores Locks
It is a mesmerizing scene, the massive machinery - some 700 tons of it, reinforced against the mighty Pacific - of iconic Miraflores Locks in operation. It is ... Continue Reading »
Casco Viejo
Panama City's oldest surviving neighborhood is also its most defensible, a tejas-tiled cluster of primly painted colonial buildings at the tip of a heavily ... Continue Reading »
Amador Causeway
Palm-lined Amador Causeway is famed for the fantastic views of Panama's skyscraping downtown, a yacht-strewn panorama across the Panama Bay to the graceful ... Continue Reading »
Barro Colorado
This was once a jungled mountaintop overlooking the Chagres River Valley, which was flooded, beginning in 1907, by Lake Gatún as part of the Panama Canal. ... Continue Reading »
Bayano Lake Caves
Sparkling like a jewel at the edge of the enormous Darién wilderness, tranquil Bayano Lake was created in 1976 and has been a scenic escape from the big ... Continue Reading »
Contadora Island
A lush, volcanic archipelago lies just south of the capital, named for its iridescent undersea wealth: The Pearl Islands. Conquered by the Spanish in 1513, the ... Continue Reading »
Panama Viejo Ruins
Long before smallpox, conquistadors, and Catholicism made the Americas safe for European occupation, a group of Spanish sailors laid claim to the indigenous ... Continue Reading »
Parque Natural Metropolitano (Metropolitan National Park)
This amazingly accessible park claims to be Latin America's only municipal wildlife reserve, draped luxuriantly across 232 hectares (573 acres) in the city ... Continue Reading »
