Watch the Sun Go Down on the Sunset Coast

The Sunset Coast is an unexplored area with small communities, vast open beaches, and a limited number of hotels and inns where you can get away from the tourist scene. It is one of the few areas in Panama where you can watch the sun set over the Pacific Ocean. It is bounded on the south by the Pacific Ocean, on the west by the Pacific and the Gulf of Montijo, and on the east by the Gulf of Panama. This is rural Panama, with undulating hills, little communities, family farms, and miles of palm-lined beaches. Foreign tourists are few in comparison to other parts of the country, and many visitors are Panamanian.

The drive from the Pan-American Highway to the Sunset Coast is curvy and has a few potholes to avoid, but each mile brings you further away from civilization. Surfers frequent this location as well. The wide-open beaches receive the brunt of the Pacific Ocean's waves, and sharing a wave is uncommon. This is the place to go if you want a beach to yourself.