2 Best Places to Shop in Parque Natural Metropolitano, Miraflores, and Summit, Panama City

Albrook Mall is the people's mall, with more discount stores than the city's other malls. That, combined with its convenient location between the city's massive bus terminal and Albrook Airport, makes it the busiest mall. Shopaholics can position themselves for multiday shopping by checking into the TRYP by Wyndham Panama Albrook Mall Hotel, which is attached to the shopping complex (and one of the closest hotels to the Miraflores Locks visitor center at the Panama Canal).

Flory Saltzman Molas has the country's biggest mola collection—thousands of those colorful creations divided by theme and quality, and stacked to the ceiling. The quality of their collection varies greatly, and the good ones tend to cost considerably more than the Kuna vendors charge on the streets, or in the markets.