Pedasi Surf
Playa Venao, just thirty minutes drive west from Andromeda Ocean Estates, is one of Panamas best surf spots with a consistent south swell that attracts surfers from all over the world.
Just 25 miles south of the picturesque town of Pedasi Panama and the local airport, Play Venao is a surfers dream.
The best sport or for those who want to learn and get an excellent workout, Venao’s year round surf season is world renown and peaks during the months of December through June.
In the months of March through May, visitors from all over the world join the world’s top surfers who battle for surf and boogie board trophies, not to mention the beautiful young people that follow the sport.
One of the driest regions, the Azuero Peninsula has just two seasons, one golden and dry, the other green and lush. In the golden season you find clear blue skies and crisp offshore breezes, while the green season hosts intermittent rain and sun to bring out the lushness for which Panama is so famous.
Playa Venao will offer an exciting mixture of old-world touches with modern amenities and luxury set within an eco-friendly community. Set at the foot of rolling hills on a majestic bay, Playa Venao is a premier and unique community, being designed with every comfort you may desire while preserving the environment.
Take a walk in the large parks, watch the rolling surf on the beach or walk the village streets paved with European-style cobblestones. Dine on exquisite gourmet and local fare as you gaze upon red Spanish tile roofs and lush greenery with the scent of the deep blue Pacific Ocean in the air.
The beaches and waves are joyfully shared by surf lovers, jogging enthusiasts, couples strolling on the beach and children playing in the sand. All ages can be found mixing and breathing in life.
The options are virtually endless; hiking, fishing, kayaking, and horseback ridding are only some of the many alluring day adventures for the athletic enthusiast. Just outside of town lies an enchanted forest with hidden waterfalls and abundant bird life.
The Pedasi Real Estate area offers world-class surfing, diving, snorkeling and hiking, and nature lovers can explore Pedasí’s rich natural heritage, a utopia of wildlife exploration. Pedasí’s waters are also well known for fantastic sport-fishing, yielding record catches of blue marlin, big-eye and yellow fin tuna, Pacific sailfish, wahoo, mahi-mahi, grouper, snapper and amberjack.
As prime beachfront land in Panama grows ever scarcer, investors and developers have been looking to this sleepy stretch of coastline on Panama’s central Pacific for the next wave of development, and discovering in the Azuero Peninsula the very heart of Panama.
While there are several excellent beaches close to Panama City, most of these are well-developed or well on their way. The first two hours’ drive west on the Pan-American Highway are littered with signs for beachfront resorts, villas and condos, offering dreams of ocean view lifestyles, but many of these have taken on an almost suburban feel, as the developed stretches now begin to crowd and bleed into one another.
At the bottom of the Azuero Peninsula is Pedasi, however one feels almost at the end of the world. There is a timeless quality to daily life there, a blend of the ultra-modern with the centuries-old traditional ways. Impeccably paved highways slink through endless green fields and tiny clustered towns.
Pedasi is a quiet, traditional town tucked away in a beautiful part of the Azuero Peninsula, the cultural heartland of Panama. It is a place of green, rolling hills and shining blue waters resembling the tuscany region of Italy. With its pastoral ambience, charming local cultures and a diversity of activities to suit the adventuros and leisurely alike, Pedasi is quickly making its way to the for front of the worlds top vacation and retirment destinations.
The Azuero peninsula features towns that were founded hundreds of years ago. Strong spanish colonial influence can be seen in the beautiful churches and towns plazas, as well as in the well kept homes with their pastoral colors, colonnaded verandas and tile roofs. Las tablas is located thirty minutes from Pedasi and the provincial capital was founded in 1671 and boasts the most famous carnival in all of Panama.
Nearby, the colorful town of Pedasí offers cafés and restaurants, supermarkets and souvenir shops. The bigger towns of Las Tablas and Chitré, with more extensive amenities, are just an hour’s drive on impeccably smooth roads, and Panama City with its first-world modernity is just 4 hours on the Pan-American highway. A regional airport also receives several domestic flights a week to Pedasí, and is currently under expansion to receive larger charter flights.