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The Island of Flowers, its people call it. Hibiscus. Oleander and Jasmine. Fragance everywhere. Prostrate on the beach. Supine on the hotel balcony. Snorkeling on the smooth Southern Sea. Horizontal, watching the earth's seaborne commerce hastening along the rim of the ocean, bound to or from the Panama Canal. This is the Taboga view of the world. Taboga is where Francisco Pizarro shoved off to conquer Peru, where pirates laid the groundwork for Errol Flynn movies, where the artist Paul Gauguin lingered a while on his way to the South Pacific, where half the steamship trade of the Pacific West Coast once was based.

A multi-lane Taboga highway is a footpath upon which two pedestrians may pass without one of them brushing the oleander. Taboga's tiny church claims to be second-oldest in the hemisphere. The town square is of a size with it.

An equally tiny mystery is why some acquisitive tourist has not wrapped them both and carried them off under his arm. Students of urban sprawl are reminded that Taboga was founded in 1515 or thereabouts. For all its miniature drowsiness Taboga brought you to Panama as much as it sent Pizarro on his cockleshell way to despoil the Incas. Atop the island are modern radio aids your jet used in navigating you here. Taboga island offers the hotel Vereda Tropical, perched on a cliff overlooking the beach

How To VisitTaboga Regular launch service links Taboga with the mainland. Call Calypso Queen: 314-1730 for more information. The boat ride under the Bridge of the Americas, across the mouth of the canal, past the ships at anchor waiting to transit the canal is an experience in itself.