Panama City
Cheap Flights to Panama
Cheap flights to Panama? You have come to the right place. Buy the best
online air flight tickets at Discount Fares and enjoy a vacation in the
destination of your choice. Need to fly away for business? We have cheap
flights for any city in the world using your airline of preference. Book your
flight now!
Discount airfare is available any day, just look for cheap flights in our web
site.
Cheap flights to Panama City are also available, enjoy Casco Viejo and
all it has to offer! Visit The Vaults, a waterfront promenade jutting out into
the Pacific or go to Teatro Nacional, a recently renovated performance center,
with outstanding natural acoustics. It provides an intimate performance
environment, seating about 800 guests.
Have a family vacation, learn all about the Panama Canal, while looking at the
Bridge of the Americas or the new Centennial Bridge!
We offer a wide list of possibilities for cheap flight tickets, so shop safely
through our secure system and fly away!
The destination is on your hands, we just make it available.
ABOUT PANAMA CITY
Panama City (Spanish: Ciudad de Panamá), population 708,738, with a total
metro population of 1,063,000 is the capital of Panama, located at the Pacific
entrance of the Panama Canal, at 8°58′N 79°32′W. Panama City is the
political, administrative and cultural center of the country.
The city has numerous tourist attractions including world-class hotels and
restaurants. Of particular interest to tourists are various sites located in
the Casco Viejo, including:
-
Las Bóvedas, literally The Vaults, a waterfront promenade jutting out into the
Pacific.
-
The National Institute of Culture Building and across from it, the French
Embassy.
-
The Cathedral on Plaza de la Catedral.
-
Teatro Nacional, a recently renovated performance center, with outstanding
natural acoustics. It provides an intimate performance environment, seating
about 800 guests.
-
Museo del Canal Interoceánico (InterOceanic Canal Museum).
-
Numerous restaurants located near the French embassy.
-
Palacio de las Garzas (Heron's Palace), the official name of the presidential
palace. There actually are Herons in the compound.
Further Southwest one can climb the Ancon Hill for an overview of the city and
beyond that is the fairly well-known bridge that spans the Panama Canal, the
Bridge of the Americas. A new attraction is the new bridge over the Panama
Canal, the Centennial Bridge.
Relocated on a brand new location, on the entrance of Curundu Heights, on former
Panama Canal Zone is the Museo Antropológico Reina Torres de Araúz (Reina
Torres de Arauz Anthropologycal Museum) - best know by its Spanish acronym
MARTA - with precious metal artifacts from pre-Columbian Panama.
The area immediately east of the Pacific entrance of the canal--known as the
Amador Causeway is currently being developed as a major tourist center with
many North-American style malls, hotels, discos and restaurants. Currently the
Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute operates a station and a small museum
open to the public on Culebra Island, just off the Island of Naos. The noted
American architect Frank Gehry known for the Bilbao Guggenheim Museum and the
Disney Concert Center in Los Angeles, has designed a structure which will be
built in this area. The structure, called The Bridge of Life museum is
scheduled to be completed in 2007.
Visitors who wish to experience more of the local atmosphere are advised to look
for accommodations nearer the commercial and financial center of the city, that
is the neighborhoods of Bella Vista, Marbella or El Cangrejo. For the tighter
budgets Casco Viejo is a better option. In the neighborhood known as Bella
Vista, Calle Uruguay is home to Panama's newest cosmopolitan restaurants among
them La Rioja, Bistro 10, Peperoncini and La Posta. The city is also growing as
a haven for seniors of the United States due to low tax incentives and a
tropical climate. The demand for space in Panama City has sparked a
construction boom and skyscrapers are being to built as condos to supply the
number of people entering the city. A new building, currently under
construction in the city, the Ice Tower will be nearly the height of the World
Trade Center. Billionaire tycoon Donald Trump sees the city's future as a
bright one. In 2006, he moved into the construction frenzy in Panama City with
a tower that is to be more than 800 feet tall. The city is emerging as a
regional player in finance and chances are that more buildings are on the way
to supply all the business arrivals the city is getting.
Beaches
Playa Bonita Complex, right next to the city, crossing the Bridge of the
Americas. There are also many more beaches, in the Pacific and Caribbean side
(one of the advantages of Panama is the possibility of bathing in two oceans
easily, as they are just hours apart). In recent years there has been huge
development of beach hotels. Farther afield, visitors can travel to beaches in
the interior, Bocas del Toro and the Archipiélago de las Perlas in the Gulf of
Panama (where Survivor -TV series- has filmed 3 seasons).
|