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Transportation In Panama

If you intend to explore panama from its colombian tip to the costa rican tip, you would need to know how to do so. Even were you visiting for just a few days with no intention to do some extensive exploring, it is just common sense to investigate how to get around and about in any place that is not your home. Knowing the modes of transportation available in a place you are visiting is right up there with knowing where your country’s embassy is located, having a travel insurance, and having an emergency or hotline number to reach in case of any crisis.

Taxis

Sometimes it seems panama has more taxis than mangos. Sometimes, if it is raining at knockoff time, it seems there are no taxis at all. In panama city fares are based on a zoning system and the cabbie should show you his zoned map of the city. But in fact taxi driver in panama city are not organized, most of prices are negotiable. If you have a bunch of places to visit around town, the easy way is to hire a cab by the hour, the price is negotiable. Prices differ between small taxis and large taxis. Between tocumen airport and panama city’s hotels the official rate is $10.00 a person if you share the cab with up to four others, $14.00 if you share with one other person, or $25.00 if you want the vehicle to yourself. Inside the panama city, normally the price for taxi is around $1.25 - $1.50 in the day time, the price for evening will increase to around $2.00.

International buses

Panaline departs from the albrook bus terminal daily at 12:30 p.m. For san jose, costa rica. Cost: $50 round trip. Tel: 314-6385. Ticabus services to san jose, costa rica, leave from albrook every day at 11:00 a.m. Round trip fare to san jose costs $50, to nicaragua costs $80 and to guatemala $172.00. Tel: 314-6385.

To san jose the bus costs about one fifth of the air fare, takes about 16 times as long.

Buses to the interior

Buses of all shapes and sizes are driving all over the nation as bees around wild flowers. The interior, which in effect means all the country west of the canal, is served by buses ranging from greyhound quality, for the trunk route to david, to mini-buses which hop, skip and jump to and from between the beach resorts and about everywhere else.
Buses to the following destinations leave from the gran terminal at albrook: chorrera, arraijan and capira, central provinces, colon, david and changuinola. Panama city has as many bus routes as bus designs. You normally pay the driver as you get off. To stop the bus, yell “parada”.

Departs: panama 7:15 a.m. Arrives colón: 8:15 a.m.
Departs: colón 5:15 p.m. Arrives panama 6:15 p.m.
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International airlines

Wth regular passenger flights:
Areo republica: 217-5656, american airlines: 269-6022, avianca: 223-5225, aires: 224-9053/56, continental airlines: 265-0040, copa airlines: 04-2672, cubana: 209-8015, grupo taca: 360-2093, iberia: 227-2322, lan chile: 6-7119, lloyd aereo boliviano: 270-0316, aeroflot: 225-0497, delta airlaines: 214-8118

Domestic airlines

Panama has a sufficient airway system in place. To reach panama, you will probably have to get an international flight to panama city. From there you can fly to your intended island location because panama currently has around a hundred airports, some of them paved but most of them unpaved. For island hopping purposes, this is more than enough.

Domestic airlines fly from marcos a. Gelabert airport at albrook with scheduled flights to all parts of the country. They also offer charter flights to any of the republic’s 150 or more airstrips.

Aero perlas regional: tel: 315-7500
Perlas islands: contadora, san blas: el porvenir, río sidra, corazón de jesús, carti, playa chico, mamitupu, uztupu, mulatupu, puerto de obldía. Darién: el real, sambú, la palma, garachine, bahía piñas, jaque. Bocas del toro, changuinola y david.
Air panama: tel: 316-9000 perlas islands: contadora, san miguel, san josé, san blas: porvenir, río sidra, corazón de jesús, mamitupo, tubala, uztupo, playón chico, san ignacio de tupile. Darién: garachine, sambú, bahía piñas.
Bocas del toro, changuinola, david. Aircraft & helicopter charter: blue sky jets: 264-9688/6616-7838.
Helipan: tel: 315-0452/315-0453, helix: 264-5155.

Boat / cruise

Since panama is located between the atlantic ocean and the pacific ocean, it is no wonder that the current favourite means of getting around in panama is by boat. Going to panama can be accomplished through a cruise liner because of its ports and harbours. You can get around panama by riding a commercial ferry, renting out a private boat, or a combination of both. This is especially true if you plan to visit the outlying islands.

Road

Panama has an adequate network of roads which you can use to explore the country. There is a total of 11,258 km of highways in panama. Therefore, once you reach panama, you can rent a car from among the many car rental agencies available especially in panama city. This would give you the independence to go at will where you want to go. Most of these roads though are unpaved so you may be in for a rough ride. If you plan to go on a cross country drive, it would be better to rent an automobile with off-roading capabilities.

Train

If you wish to get an eyeful of the countryside while not having to mind your own car, you can choose to buy train tickets instead. However, panama canal railway company is the only effectively operating rail company in panama and the route of this railroad may be too limited for your preferences. It traverses exactly the route that the panama canal takes; that is panama city to colon. If you want to get from the pacific ocean to the atlantic ocean, then panama railway is your best option.

Publish on 22.01.2009

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