Holy Week

Holy Week in Panama is an experience that combines deep religious devotion with the country's most popular vacation tradition. From Palm Sunday to Easter Sunday, communities across the country organize solemn processions with religious images carried by devotees through streets decorated with carpets of flowers and colored sawdust. The towns of the Azuero Peninsula — La Villa de Los Santos, Pesé, Atalaya, and Chitré — preserve the most authentic traditions, with theatrical reenactments of the Way of the Cross, ancestral liturgical singing, and palpable devotion. Simultaneously, Holy Week marks the grand beach season: thousands of Panamanians and tourists fill the Caribbean and Pacific coasts. Beaches at Playa Escondida, Coronado, Farallón, and Bocas del Toro become epicenters of family vacations. It's a festive period where faith, family, beach, and traditional cuisine — especially dried fish with coconut rice — intertwine in a uniquely Panamanian way.