subject: An enthralling and inviting Panama experience [print this page] Captain Antonio Tello de Guzmn, while exploring the Pacific side in 1515, stopped in the small indigenous fishing town. This was communicated to the Crown and in 1517 Don Gaspar De Espinosa, a Spanish lieutenant, decided to settle a post there. In 1519, Pedrarias Dvila decided to establish the Empire's Pacific city in this site. The new settlement replaced Santa Mara La Antigua del Darin, which had lost its function within the Crown's global plan after the beginning of the Spanish exploitation of the riches in the Pacific, and hence panama was born. Panama broke withSpain in 1821; however the laid back colonial attitude still persists making it an idyllic spot for a vacation.
It is hard to think of any metropolitan city anywhere with so many fine beaches nearby. Along the Pacific Coast just outside Panama City, begin a string of pretty beaches of white sand and sapphire blue waters. The question arises what all to do on a Panama Vacation?
Miles of lovely, uncrowded beaches, beach resorts, retirement and vacation communities, two golf courses, surfing and wind surfing, ocean and river kayaking, RV park, jet skis, and side trips to the ancient volcano crater town El Valle de Anton.
One of your first pleasant surprises will be how warm the water is on all Panama's Pacific coasts year round. You can make this a day trip from Panama City. Santa Clara and San Carlos have nice areas for day-trippers.
Some of the more most popular Panama City Beaches are Coronado, Punta Chame, San Carlos, Buenaventura ,Gorgona, Rio Mar, Santa Clara and Playa Blanca.and they all vile for the spot of the Best Beach In Panama.
Rio Mar is the most popular surfing beach year-round. Punta Chame is good for windsurfing certain months of the year, particularly the dry season.
An increasing number of American snowbirds and retirees are choosing to buy a second home in this area. It has unbeatable attractions: uncrowded beautiful beaches, competitive housing prices, and proximity to metropolitan Panama City. They love the fact that they could surf everyday.
Another attraction of the Pacific Coast beaches is their proximity to the cool and picturesque mountain communities like El Valle de Anton and Los Altos de Maria, just half an hour away. You can easily make a day trip there from the beach.
Panama Hotels are a world apart in luxury, be it for a vacation with family, your spouse or a getaway for your teenage kids it's a world apart. Nothing compares to gazing at the sun setting at a beach or the pleasure of reading a good book with the sun upon your back as the cool breeze blows your hair. It is as near heaven as you can get on earth.
