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Water Archipiélago de las Perlas
"Two hundred islands in the Pacific where humpback whales breach between pearl-diving boats."
Mountain Bayano Caves
"Limestone caverns with underground rivers flowing through Guna territory, explored by torchlight."
Water Boca Brava
"A mangrove island in the Pacific where humpback whales breach within swimming distance of shore."
Water Bocas del Toro
"Over-water bungalows on a Caribbean archipelago where sloths drift through mangrove canopies."
City Casco Viejo
"Crumbling baroque balconies where jazz drifts over a skyline of glass towers."
Wilderness Cerro Hoya National Park
"Cloud forest clinging to a cattle peninsula's tip, sheltering species found nowhere else on Earth."
Mountain Cerro Pirre
"A ranger station in the Darién cloud forest accessible only by foot through trackless jungle."
Wilderness Darién Gap
"The roadless gap where the Pan-American Highway ends and the jungle refuses to yield."
Mountain El Valle de Antón
"An entire town nestled inside the crater of an extinct volcano."
Wilderness Emberá Villages
"Dugout canoes glide upriver to thatched villages where body paint replaces clothing."
Wilderness Fort Sherman
"Jungle warfare bunkers sinking into rainforest where monkeys colonised the barracks the Americans left behind."
Wilderness Gamboa
"A rainforest town straddling the Panama Canal where toucans perch on the balconies."
Water Golfo de San Miguel
"The gulf where Balboa waded into the Pacific in 1513 — shore unchanged, jungle watching."
Water Isla Bastimentos
"Poison dart frogs glow neon red on a jungle island with no roads and no cars."
Water Isla Cañas
"Thousands of olive ridley turtles hauling ashore on a single remote beach in one moonlit night."
Water Isla Coiba
"A former penal colony turned marine sanctuary, where eighty years of isolation let the Pacific reef thrive."
Water Isla Contadora
"A Pearl Island where Iran's exiled Shah took refuge and the 20th century washed ashore."
Water Isla Grande
"A car-free Caribbean island where Afro-Panamanian families serve lobster from their living rooms."
Water Islas Secas
"Fourteen volcanic islands in the Pacific where whale sharks cruise the underwater drop-off."
Wilderness La Amistad International Park
"A binational cloud forest so dense and remote that vast sections remain unmapped."
Water Lago Gatún
"Container ships glide past islands of howler monkeys on a lake built to split continents."
City Las Tablas
"Two streets wage paint-and-water war each Carnival — an entire town split in half by rivalry."
City Nombre de Dios
"One of Spain's first mainland colonies, now a drowsy Caribbean village where jungle reclaims empire."
Mountain Omar Torrijos National Park
"The cloud forest where Panama's canal treaty leader died in a plane crash still officially unsolved."
City Portobelo
"Rusting cannons guard a harbour where Spanish galleons loaded plundered gold for Seville."
Wilderness Punta Patiño
"A Darién nature reserve where harpy eagles — the world's most powerful raptor — nest."
Water San Blas Islands
"Palm-tufted coral islands governed by an indigenous nation that rejected the modern world."
City San Lorenzo
"A Spanish fortress swallowed by jungle on the headland where the Chagres meets the Caribbean."
Wilderness Sarigua National Park
"Cracked salt flats where rainforest retreated to reveal one of the Americas' oldest human settlements."
Mountain Sendero Los Quetzales
"A cloud forest trail between two highland towns where resplendent quetzals flash through the mist."
Mountain Volcán Barú
"A pre-dawn climb through cloud forest to a summit that promises views of two oceans."
Wilderness Wounaan Villages
"Wounaan carvers shaping rainforest nuts into vegetable ivory sculptures so fine galleries exhibit them as art."
City Yaviza
"Where the Pan-American Highway dies: the last town before a hundred kilometres of trackless jungle."