Panama Canal Tours
The Panama Canal is the reason most travelers come, and there are two distinct ways to experience it.
View tours →Panama City: Tours & Attractions
Panama City is the only capital in the world where you can watch ships rise through a 110-year-old canal in the morning and dine in a UNESCO colonial quarter at night. The city straddles the narrowest point of the Americas, where the Pacific meets a skyline of glass towers, and where the Panama Canal still carries a slice of global trade past your hotel window. Most visitors anchor their trip around three pillars: the Miraflores Locks, where you watch vessels lifted 16 metres in two stages, the cobbled streets and rooftop bars of Casco Viejo, and the rainforest and Gatun Lake wildlife that sit barely 30 minutes from downtown. A partial transit cruise lets you ride through the locks yourself, while the Amador Causeway, the Biomuseo and Ancon Hill round out a packed long weekend. The dry season runs December to April, when transits are busiest and rooftop sunsets draw crowds, though the canal and the city run year round. This hub gathers the activity categories worth booking in Panama City, the landmark attractions to plan an itinerary around, and curated tours from local operators so you can balance the engineering marvel of the canal with colonial history and tropical nature without crisscrossing the isthmus twice in the heat of the day.
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Panama City Tours
Panama City rewards a guided walk because its layers are not obvious from a taxi window.
View tours →Day Trips from Panama City
When the city heat builds, Panama City turns out to be a launchpad for some of the most varied day trips in Central America.
View tours →Top attractions
Miraflores Locks
The Miraflores Locks are the most accessible and most visited section of the Panama Canal, just 20 minutes from downtown Panama City.
Read guide →Casco Viejo (Casco Antiguo)
Casco Viejo is the colonial old town of Panama City and a UNESCO World Heritage site since 1997.
Read guide →Gatun Lake
Gatun Lake is the vast artificial lake at the heart of the Panama Canal, created in 1913 by damming the Chagres River and once the largest man-made lake in the world.
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