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Backpack Panama
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Backpacker stories from the road, eco-lodge and hostel experiences, adventure tours and insights into what to see and do in Panama.
Recent Posts
What to Pack for Panama
To start, lay down all the clothes and money that you think you need. Take half the clothes and twice the money.Bring your adult clothes to Panama, you want to experience some of the city’s legendary nightlife and shorts and flip flops scream gring...
Save and travel even in an economic Shit-Storm
So I asked my dad near the end of the first semester to loan me a bit of money so I could eat something other than ramen noodles and I get a lecture on financial responsibility. Hmmm I am the last child of six and my older brothers used to call me A...
Finally the Quetzal at the Eco Lodge in Panama
You will not hunt for the Resplendent Quetzal – when you are lost in the ambience of cloud forest it will find you – if you are lucky. OK not my photo... they are hard to shoot.Travelling Panama is not about the destinations – it is about getti...
Get Out if you Can!
By Dr. Michael AndersonOn 17th Century maps of Old Panama the street name is the same, ‘Salsipuedes’. It was not so much a name as a warning… literally translated as Get Out If You Can. ‘Street’ is a bit of a misnomer… it is more a labyri...
A Tale of Two Coffee Tours - Boquete VS. The Backpacker Hostel
Whether we would like to admit it or not there was a time in our lives when we stuck everything interesting we could find in our mouths. At one time or another we have tasted everything our bodies could produce. And now we have grown out of that righ...
The Coolest Panama Destinations on the Web
The following links will open your eyes to some really cool stuff in Panama but they are also the easy links contained in the The Lost and Found novel (Short stories of mystery, sex and betrayal on the road in Panama). Hard copies of this are circula...

