Due to breathtaking endless stretches of beautiful beaches, phenomenal cliff walks, and 300 plus days a year of sun, the Costa del Sol provides a perfect get away all seasons of the year.

The Costa del Sol can roughly be divided into the eastern section and the western. The eastern section is the area lying to the east of Malaga City and runs for 54 kilometers, covering 200 meter high cliffs and runs all the way to the Nerja with the spectacular Nerja Caves where dance and music festivals are hosted within the natural caverns. Continue reading

The Panama Canal does more than link the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. Between a unique environment shaped by the canal, two coasts mere hours apart, and a history that combines indigenous, American and European influences, Panama’s unique mixture reaches its fullest expression around the Canal itself, but also makes itself known throughout the country. The watchword is diversity. Panama probably contains the most densely packed variety of environments, people, and visual attractions in the world. There are few places where you can visit two oceans in a day without ever getting on a plane. Here are five things that make Panama and the Panama Canal an unforgettable travel destination. Continue reading

What makes real estate in Panama attractive are the various activities that it allows you do while in the country. In fact, one visit to the country would make you think about investing in a Panama property. With a nice Panama property, you will even enjoy the city more. Continue reading

The country of Panama holds a unique strategic geographic location, and it has tried its best throughout the ages to exploit this to the full. From the time of the Portobello fairs to the first transisthmian railroad to the present waterway, often considered to be the eighth wonder of the world. Continue reading

The first Christmas I ever spent away from home was on a trip through South America. It was my first Christmas on the road, but not my last.

That first Christmas eve on the road occurred while I was staying with friends of friends in Miraflores, an upscale suburb of Lima, Peru. It was a delightful place to catch my breath on a rather off, off road adventure where basic comfort was often a luxury. But there in Miraflores, the home was commodious and elegant. Beds were large with good mattresses and meals were convened with the ringing of a little silver bell which beckoned the staff from the kitchen. Continue reading

2009 has been really interesting year so far for the Spanish property market the La Cala de Mijas property market has been no different. In an area of huge over building and very low prices La Cala de Mijas stands out as an Oasis in Mijas Costa as prices have held their value extremely well and compared to the prices of Calahonda and Miraflores it’s hard to believe La Cala de Mijas in only 5 minutes away and there is no sign of “La Cala” losing its magic in the near future according to Spanish Hot Properties marketing and operations manager Susana Suspenda. Continue reading

Imagine for a moment taking surf lessons in the morning and learning Spanish in the afternoon. This is actually a real possibility when you attend a Spanish school in Lima. Combining an intellectual pursuit such as studying a language with a fitness activity such as surfing works both your mind and body while on “vacation”. Continue reading

The Panama Canal has been called “the big ditch”, “the bridge between two continents” and “the greatest shortcut in the world”.
One look at the immensity of the Panama Canal, and you will understand why a French company with a labor force of 10,000 men went bankrupt trying to excavate it. The project, while conceived in 1534 by Charles I of Spain, began in 1882 and ended seven years later in disaster with over 22,000 people dead from disease and pestilence. Continue reading

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Day dawned crystalline blue and hot over the Gulf of Panama.  The sea’s surface assumed a silk sheen.  The Infinity, stretching 964.6 feet from bow to stern and rising 11 decks above the ocean, had already accepted its local pilot at 0645, and now thread its way through the eight-mile channel whose lush green, but narrowing banks inched closer to its hull.  Some 40 ships anchored in the distance awaited entry clearance, yet the Infinity itself, oblivious to them, continued its approach.  That approach had been to the Panama Canal, which would facilitate its continental cut from the Pacific to the Atlantic.  Lying only a short distance away, it stretched almost 500 years behind in origin. Continue reading

There are places that through out our lives simply attract and make us want to go back, or at least when ever we find ourselves in the city in which they are located in, almost as if a visit to that particular city would not be complete without a stop over at that special corner. In what has been my life up and till this point there have been several such locales through out the world which I would gladly go back to; one of them being the “La Media Naranja” in Lima, Peru. Continue reading