Those who are looking for employment in a foreign country may regard Panama as a role model. With its modern and growing economy, Panama is far ahead of its Central American neighbors. Finding a job in Panama can be exceedingly rewarding whether it be for life or temporary employment to build a résumé. These job opportunities are similar to the ones in the U.S with the addition of English required positions like teaching or translating. The currency in Panama is the U.S dollar which they call the Balboa. This makes traveling much easier because you will avoid the exchange rate. Another plus is that Panama pays on a 13 month calendar. How’s that for a bonus?
Figuring out how to efficiently experience the vast plethora of culinary options in Panama City is a somewhat overwhelming task. There are so many different neighborhoods with good restaurants that even if you are able to pin down a location to cure your hunger pains it can be difficult to choose from the array of different choices. From Lebanese to Peruvian, Panama City won’t let your stomach down no matter what mood you are in, but how to decide where to go has perplexed me since arrival in this great city. As I currently do not possess a motor vehicle, my primary form of transportation consists of a pair of worn out sneakers, so the majority of my restaurant experiences Read more
The following post comes to us from guest blogger Cathy Scott of HighRockCleanLiving.com, our favorite furniture supplier in Panama:
I grew up spending all my summers at a lake in Canada in Northern Ontario. If you’ve ever been there, you will know that no cottage is complete without Adirondack Chairs. My father built beautiful ones out of wood. My eldest son builds them out of old wooden hockey sticks. However, neither has the time nor the energy to do this anymore. Not to mention the paint eventually starts to crack and peel and eventually the wood rots.
My husband and I then started to purchase the low cost plastic Adirondack chairs. Much to my dismay, they would blow Read more
Backpacking Central America? Make sure you put Bambu Hostel on your list of places to stop. It’s a backpackers resort with a deluxe in-ground pool and Mayan-Style rancho bar and landscaped garden. The perfect kind of place to relax for cheap after trudging through the country. Plus, it is perfectly safe, located in a middle class neighborhood in the San Mateo District of David-City, Panama.
Over the course of the year Bambu sees all kinds of backpackers and international travelers from all corners of the world. Gregg Lapkin and Mike Esterson, seasoned travelers and hostel owners like to meet everyone passing through the hostel, and make you feel right at home.
Don’t believe everything you read in the Read more
BOCAS DEL TORO – $210 per person/ land transport (Air transport Available, ask if interested)
Includes- Stay for four nights and five days-Breakfast-Land transport to and from Bocas del Toro
CRATER VALLEY (El Valle De Anton) – $80 per person
We have many properties available for rent with tours included
SAN BLAS – $260 per person/land transport included (Air transport Available, ask if interested)
Includes- 3 meals of the day (fish, centollo, lobster)-Stay for four nights and five days in cabins located in a Private Island with electricity-two tours per day to different islands: Perro, Perro Grande, Iguana, Diablo and Isla de las Estrellas-Water transport to the Island
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The health food craze hasn’t just swept the United States; it has most definitely made its way down to Panama. Organica is proof of that fact.
The only store in Panama that offers completely organic products without chemicals or preservatives, Organica supermarket pretty much has the health food sector of Panama City covered. There is a huge selection of products, the most popular being hormone free chicken and pesticide free vegetables. It is debatable, however, if there is a need to buy organic veggies in Panama, as many of the produce is grown on farms that do not use pesticides. If you buy locally, or at the vegetable markets in town, it is not likelly that you’re vegetables have been Read more
In Panama we have the luxury of being able to find many of the same foods that we have back home at a variety of grocery stores, but for me there is just something so American-esque about Price Smart. Perhaps it’s due to the similarities it shares with Costco, an old favorite of mine. Whatever the case may be, Price Smart is bulk shopping done right.
Price Smart has everything you would expect to find at a Costco back home. When you walk in, you’re immediately greeted by the standard electronics department, with big screen TVs, computers, MP3 players, and a whole lot more gadgets and gizmos that I can happily browse through. Prices aren’t always the greatest for electronics Read more
When I need to ship something to Panama I always use Mail Boxes Etc. It is the UPS store, making it a US based Postal and Business service. MBE. has 16 stores in Panama and over 6,000 around the world.
One of the most convenient and priceless services offered by Mail Boxes Etc. is mail forwarding from Miami Florida. You are given a US based address that can be used for any kind of mailing – magazine subscriptions, online purchases, and even good old fashioned letters. Mail that is sent to the address given you by MBE is then forwarded to the corresponding office in Panama, according to your wishes, where you can pick it up.
GiGGi Travel specializes in all aspects of receptive tourism within the country. We can provide tours to fit anyone’s needs or desires ranging from the softest to the most extreme, so you can enjoy the BEST OF PANAMA.
Our Mission is to provide our customers with fast and accurate answers and quality service now … not mañana, and be the vehicle for travelers to visit our country and see the many wondrous things Panama has to offer. We will make sure that our customers will return home with vacation memories that will last forever.
Act now: GiGGi Travel is also offering any customers who come to them directly through thepanamagringo.com a 20% discount on all travel services. Just say you Read more
