Embera Drua Indians, 2 hours from Panama City

Panama City is an eclectic mix of the old and new.  It has some great restaurants and nightclubs.  KLM now fly direct to Panama City from Amsterdam.

The 17th-century Casco Viejo or Casco Antiguo (the old quarter) of Panama City is as ravishing as any colonial cityscape in the Americas – with the same gracious, glorious shades of Old San Juan or Old Havana.   There are numerous old churches, including the Iglesia San José with its gold altar and great museums full of religious art.    The area was made a UNESCO World Heritage Site some ten years ago, and with its maze of streets mixing everything from neo-Moorish to French neoclassical to Art Deco, it has, like Old Havana, spent more than a couple of decades slowly decaying and is today festooned in tropical rot, which lends it…