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The Panama
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Flying in to Panama City can be the first leg of your journey to
Isla Solarte. You may want to take advantage of an extended stay in
Panama City to visit the many museums, the Panama Canal, and certainly
Gamboa.
Gamboa provides visitor facilities and hoasts the Soberania National
Park, a protected rain forest that boasts more than 700 species of
birds and 184 varieties of tropical trees per acre. A tropical research
institute run by the Smithsonian Institution can also be found here.
The Gamboa Resort is situated in the Pacific sector of the canal,
in the middle of the 55,000-acre Soberania park on the banks of the
Chagres River.
You may also want to visit the Panama Canal Rainforest Canopy Tower,
also located in the Soberania National Forest. "The Canopy Tower was
formerly a radar tower used by the U.S. Air Force to track drug-trafficking
planes from South America, it is now a seven-room hotel where nature
lovers spy on jungle life from a vantage point above the treetops
while enjoying a great view of the Bridge of the Americas and the
canal's Pacific entrance."
And of course, there's always the Panama Canal! No visit to Panama
can be complete without a tour of this famous bridge between the oceans.
Here's a great link to visit if you wish additional information regarding
the Panama Canal:
http://www.pancanal.com/
We recommend getting in touch with either Jose
or Elias while in Panama City for a tour of the city or its surrounding
attractions, and for transportation to the airport for your air connection
to Bocas del Toro, the final leg of your journey to Solarte del Caribe
Inn.
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