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Panama

If transiting the Panama Canal is not already on your bucket list, then add it right now! Located at the southern end of Central America, Panama holds an important strategic position in Central America, thanks to its eponymous canal.

Following independence from Columbia in 1903, the country negotiated a treaty with the USA to allow the digging of a canal from coast to coast. The 48-mile-long canal was finished in 1914 and created an essential shipping route that saved ships negotiating the hazardous 8,000 nm trip around Cape Horn. While you’re in Panama, make sure you visit its rainforest – the largest in the Western Hemisphere, apart from the Amazon Basin. It boasts a diverse and abundant mix of tropical plants, animals and birds, some unique to Panama. Nearly half the country’s four million people live in the capital, Panama City. This is a vibrant modern city with skyscrapers and contrasting colonial buildings in the Casco Viejo district and is definitely worth a visit.

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Highlights

  • See transiting vessels from the Miraflores Visitors Centre and learn about the canal and its operations. You can see the history of its construction and find out about its vital importance to the world of commerce.
  • Visit Fort San Lorenzo, the UNESCO World Heritage Site, built in the late 16th Century to protect the entrance and exit of the main route to the Americas. It offers stunning views of the Chagres River and out to the Caribbean Sea.
  • Soak up the atmosphere at Casco Viejo, the historic district and cultural gem of Panama City.
  • Watch the sun rise in the Pacific and set over the Atlantic Ocean.
  • The San Blas Islands, an archipelago of 365 islands off the north coast of Panama, are well worth a visit for their picture-perfect setting.

FROM THE FLEET

Transiting the Panama Canal on board Oyster 565 Babe

Panama Transit 2024 (Final Edit)

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A flavour of Panama

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Oyster 745 Mexican Wave in Coiba Island Drone Shot Coiba Island aerial view Sunset on board Oyster 745 Mexican Wave in Coiba Island
Snorkelling in Coiba Island Oyster yachts in Coiba Island Oyster 565 Hermione III and Oyster 53 Distraction in Coiba Island
Transiting Panama Canal on Oyster 565 Babe 2 Transiting Panama Canal on Babe The Advisor and Paul celebrate getting to the Pacific Transiting Panama Canal on Oyster 565 Babe
Oyster 565 Babe in Shelter Bay Panama Canal Transiting Panama Canal on Babe Advisor arriving on Pilot boat Transiting Panama Canal on Oyster 565 Babe 3
Iglesia de San Felipe Portobelo Crew on board Oyster 565 Babe in Shelter Bay Panama Canal Portobelo guided tour Panama
Oyster yachts in Shelter Bay Panama Canal Oyster 595 Jazofi sailing towards Panama Oyster 595 Jazofi sailing towards Panama spinnaker up
Oyster yachts in San Blas Sunset Diving in San Blas Oyster yachts in San Blas Drone Shot
Lunch in San Blas Oyster 595 Mastegot and 675 Skana in San Blas Oyster yachts in San Blas
Oyster 745 Mexican Wave in Coiba Island Drone Shot
Coiba Island aerial view
Sunset on board Oyster 745 Mexican Wave in Coiba Island
Snorkelling in Coiba Island
Oyster yachts in Coiba Island
Oyster 565 Hermione III and Oyster 53 Distraction in Coiba Island
Transiting Panama Canal on Oyster 565 Babe 2
Transiting Panama Canal on Babe The Advisor and Paul celebrate getting to the Pacific
Transiting Panama Canal on Oyster 565 Babe
Oyster 565 Babe in Shelter Bay Panama Canal
Transiting Panama Canal on Babe Advisor arriving on Pilot boat
Transiting Panama Canal on Oyster 565 Babe 3
Iglesia de San Felipe Portobelo
Crew on board Oyster 565 Babe in Shelter Bay Panama Canal
Portobelo guided tour Panama
Oyster yachts in Shelter Bay Panama Canal
Oyster 595 Jazofi sailing towards Panama
Oyster 595 Jazofi sailing towards Panama spinnaker up
Oyster yachts in San Blas Sunset
Diving in San Blas
Oyster yachts in San Blas Drone Shot
Lunch in San Blas
Oyster 595 Mastegot and 675 Skana in San Blas
Oyster yachts in San Blas
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ANTIGUA TO PANAMA

The fleet has been sailing to hidden paradises like Dominica, San Blas Islands, and the ABC islands, before transiting through the Panama Canal

Antigua to Panama

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