Description: Discover your home town and the world
Panama City, the capital of the Republic of Panama, is not a tourist city. Its been (not without controversy ) a major financial center and strategic link in North/South trade since its founding in 1519. That said, Panama City boasts not only the Canal, one of the great engineering feats of all time, but the outstanding Biomuseo designed by international celebrity architect Frank Gehry, his first in Latin America.
Panama City a week before Christmas 2021 was my first international destination since Covid’s new normal began in early 2020. Despite the fact that Panama has been effective with health controls and has a high vaccination rate I did not want to explore outside of the city. I did not want to drive and, understandably, many excursions to surrounding regions had been curtailed or canceled due to Covid.
The choice of Panama City itself was Covid related. In 2020 I had round trip tickets to Peru on Copa Airlines, Panama’s flag carrier – one of four trips cancelled that year. The airline’s voucher had to be used before the end of 2021.