Panamá - Caribbean Blue

Panamá is a kind of almost-country, in the shadow of its past as a province of Colombia, a period of occupation by France and its recent creation as an independent country by the United States. 

While not as popular with surfers and travelers as nearby Costa Rica, Panamá does attract a considerable amount of North American and European visitors to its lush jungles, prolific wildlife, nightlife and banking facilities in Panamá City and plenty of surfing opportunities on both the Pacific and Caribbean sides of the country.

Panamá was wrestled away from Colombian sovereignty to fulfill the engineering ambition of building a canal through the isthmus of Panama, a project that had been under consideration for hundreds of years and is one of the largest engineering feats ever accomplished by humans.