Tucan Country Club:

The project will also include the construction of 500 large and confortable villas.

The risk of a Tucan stealing your ball from the fairway of the Tucan Country Club and Resort is minimal, say the developers, despite their logo which depicts one of these exotic birds with a golf ball in its colorful beak.

It is possible that golfers and residents will see not only toucans, but plenty of wildlife, since their magnificent course is bounded by virgin rainforest on one side and the Panama Canal on the other.

The Tucan Country Club and Resort is being developed on the old 180 acre Horoko Golf Club, used by the U.S. military during their occupation of the Canal area ( the name Horoko was an adaptation of the names Howard, Rodman and Kobbe)

The old course, laid out in the 1940’s, has been redesigned as a superb par 72 championship course and will be the focus for a comprehensive development which will incorporate 500 homes, a hotel, clubhouse with indoor and outdoor dining facilities, meeting rooms, ballroom, men’s and women’s club bars and social areas for events.

The complex will include a full-service gym, spa and tennis club and a shopping arcade with services like bank, laundry, pharmacy, beauty salons, auto rental and gourmet mini-super.

Mr. Dinesh P. Vaswani, Executive Vice-President of Tucan Real Estate Holdings, Inc.

This will be a gated community for members only. In fact a pre-requisite for purchasers of the villas, townhouses and terrace condos at Tucan Resort will be membership. Prices including lifetime membership range from $198,000 to over $800,000. Non-residents will be able to buy a lifetime membership for $25,000.

Stupendous views of the canal, the canal basin and the city shimmering a mere 15 minutes away, can be enjoyed from the homes and from many points on the course.

The developers are Tucan Real Estate Holding , Inc, a company backed by an old Panamanian family of repute, headed by Mr. Sagar Vishindas whose company, Grupo V & V was involved in the development of the highly successful Summit Golf and Resort, another former U.S. military course.

Tucan Country Club and Resort will be the only golf and residential resort in the province of Panama. The development is nearing completion of the pre-sale period and it is reported that U.S. citizens, relocating, or buying a second home here, constitute the majority of the buyers so far.

"Are strawberries in Boquete that big?" is the question your son or daughter will surely ask as you arrive at Delicias Arcoiris, a quaint snack bar located five minutes from the Chiriquí mountain town of Boquete.

You’ll see it on the right, driving from David to Boquete. Where else can you a goliath-size strawberry surrounded by ants as big as a car? Who knows. Perhaps the area is the "land beyond the rainbow" we’ve all heard about since kindergarden. At any rate, the bar –managed by three friendly Chiriquí sisters—is an excellent place to enjoy the big, beautiful rainbows that often appear over Volcán Barú (Arcoiris is the Spanish word for rainbow).

There might be no "pot of gold" at Delicias Arcoiris, but the bar offers is definitely rich in milkshakes, fruit juices, desserts and hot chocolate –good for those cool Boquete evenings.