City overview
Panama packs two oceans, a rainforest and one of the world's great engineering sites into a country you can cross in a day, and it does it with the largest and best-served kosher infrastructure in Central America. Panama City's skyline sits beside a UNESCO-listed colonial quarter and the locks of the Panama Canal, while the highlands of Boquete and the Caribbean islands of Bocas del Toro are a short flight away. The Jewish community numbers roughly fifteen thousand, mostly Sephardi families of Syrian and Lebanese descent, concentrated in Punta Paitilla, Punta Pacífica and Bella Vista. Kosher Panamá, the certification body of the Shevet Ahim congregation, supervises well over ninety establishments countrywide, and an eruv covers the main Jewish neighbourhoods.
Guna Yala - San Blas Islands
Panama City
Visit hundreds of palm-covered islands in the autonomous Guna homeland on the Caribbean coast.
Time needed
Guna Yala
Tips
Trips are arranged through Guna-run operators and a community fee applies. The usual route is a four-wheel-drive transfer followed by a boat.
Neighborhood
Autonomous Guna territory of hundreds of palm islands; visits are arranged through Guna-run operators and require a community fee
Activity providers
Kosher map of Panama City
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