The Gamboa Rainforest Resort Hotel offers its guests a wide variety of tours within its perimeter. This is what they have to offer according to their official Web site: “It may not be easy to entice you from the comfort of your hammock, but with so many activities at Gamboa Rainforest Resort, it would be [...]
Archive for January, 2012
Tropical Rainforest Tours in Panama
Posted in Miscellaneous, tagged Adventure, Buses, Nature, Panama, Tourism, Tours, Tropical Forests, Tropical Rainforest Resort Hotel, Vehicles on January 31, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Iron Birds Suspended in the Air
Posted in Photography, tagged Birds, Cranes, Gamboa Rainforest Resort Hotel, Nature, Panama, Photograph, Photography, Tourism on January 30, 2012 | 4 Comments »
A Lovely Specimen of Wood Artwork
Posted in Miscellaneous, tagged Art, Furniture, Gamboa Rainforest Resort Hotel, Handcraft, Panama, Tourism, Wood, Wooden Artwork on January 29, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
A Lion by the Lamppost
Posted in Miscellaneous, tagged Gamboa Rainforest Resort Hotel, Lampposts, Lions, Panama, Photographs, Photography, Tourism on January 28, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
The Waiter
Posted in Miscellaneous, tagged Chefs, Entertainment, Food, Gamboa Rainforest Resort Hotel, Panama, Restaurants, Tourism on January 27, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Reflections on a Mirror
Posted in Photography, tagged Gamboa Rainforest Resort Hotel, Panama, Photographs, Photography, Reflections, Tourism on January 26, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
A Tug Boat Stationed on Gatun Lake
Posted in Miscellaneous, tagged Canal Transits, Gatun Lake, Lakes, Panama, Panama Canal, Tourism, Tug Boats, Water, Water Reservoirs, Waterways on January 25, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Gatun Lake (Spanish Lago Gatún) is a large artificial lake situated in the Republic of Panama. It forms a major part of the Panama Canal, carrying ships for 33 kilometers (21 miles) of their transit across the narrow Isthmus of Panama. The lake was created between 1907 and 1913 by the building of the Gatun Dam across [...]
The Gamboa Bridge
Posted in Miscellaneous, tagged Bridges, Canal Zone, Chagres River, Commerce, Gamboa Bridge, Panama, Panama Canal, Structures, Tourism, Transportation, Waterways on January 24, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
The original truss bridge carries the Panama Canal railway over the Chagres River. It dates from 1911. The attached one lane wooden bridge carries highway traffic—very slowly. As a construction point for the canal work, Gamboa (which means a tree of the quince family) first came into prominence when the French Canal Company began excavation. [...]
An Accident at Gamboa Bridge
Posted in Miscellaneous, tagged Accidents, Chagres River, Falls, Gamboa Bridge, Gamboa Rainforest Resort, Panama, Panama Canal, Photographs, Photography, Tourism on January 23, 2012 | 11 Comments »
For several years I’ve felt the itch to go to Gamboa and take a few pictures of the Gamboa Bridge and the Gamboa Rainforest Resort at the Panama Canal. Since the Canal Zone had been turned over to the Republic of Panama on midday of December 1999, I hadn’t returned there. I cherished the memories [...]
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