Day 11. Panama City. Departure
At breakfast, you'll want to go over your impressions one more time. A Panama tour stays with you for the way its colors sit side by side: the glassy sheen of the capital, the dense greenery along the Chagres, the mountain distances of Boquete and the Caribbean turquoise. The scent of humid forest, the salty coastal air, the coffee plants on the slopes - all come flooding back. You marveled at the size of ships in the locks, tuned in to Emberá music, searched for animals among the branches.
Your guided Panama tour introduced you to how the canal works, the life of indigenous peoples and how coffee is grown. A Central America vacation left you with other pleasures too: warm sand, swimming, a long gaze out to sea.
If your schedule allows, you can take a walk around the capital before your flight. At the appointed time, a private transfer takes you to Tocumen Airport. It's time to head home, but your mind will linger by the sea a while longer.
The best journeys stay with us even after we return - in photographs, in memories, and in the feeling that the world has renewed itself and become a little wider.