Snapshots of Panama City
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The Panama City shoreline by day... |
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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: 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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