El Valle Vacations, El Valle Vacation Reviews, Tourism Guide

I woke up early this morning to begin a 2 hour trek to El Valle (de Anton), two hours somewhat north of Panama City.  There are quite a few attractions in Valle, of which arguably best know is La India Dormida (the sleeping indian). I first stopped at the zoo in Valle, which was full of beautiful plants, flowers, and animals (see pictures below).  I was lucky enough to have run into a local teen ager that offered to act as my guide of La India.  We began the near 3 hour hike...

 After a long transit we were treated with another gem of a highland town.  After a small hic-up heading a 1km west instead of east we managed to find a place and settle in.  The town sits in the crater of a extinct volcano, but a darn big crater.  The scenery was lovely and the walking in the area is reputed to be some of the best in Panama.  Unfortunately for the three days we were they there was also a quite extensive storm system sitting in the same crater of the ...

Sunday morning Bruce and I packed our bags and headed out on our 2 day road trip to the mountains and beaches. We first went to a beach just northwest of Panama City - i´ll have to put the name in here later.  We sat out on a deck and had corvina sandwiches and a lemonade. Then we started our drive inland and upward - into the mountains and what I thought was a valley but turns out it is a volcanic crater.  We hit the little town of El Valle.  Upon arrival, we strolled throu...

5 DE OCTUBRE Hoy nos vamos de San Blas. A las 6 nos han llevado a El Porvenir. El avion ha salido con retraso porque en PC no habia luz, segun nos han dicho. El vuelo ha ido bien pero hacia un calor alucinante en el avion y al final los 20 minutos de vuelo se me han hecho larguisimos! Estaba deseando que aterrizaramos porque empezaba a marearme ya. Una vez abajo nos han controlado el pasaporte 2 veces, no se por que, y a unos gringos (como dicen aqui) les han retenido por no tener sello de e...