Wednesday, October 25, 2006

Panama City

So we last posted from San Jose, Costa Rica which hadnĀ“t had the best reviews from fellow travellers but we really liked it. Found a great second hand book store, a lovely vegetarian cafe and some nice local bars as well as lots of decent shopping for the first time since we left. It jumped to our favourite capital city so far. We then took an overnight bus to Panama City which came nowhere in the favourite city stakes. Plenty of American fast food joints and shopping malls which meant the downtown was rundown and quite nasty. The old town was quite pretty and we spent the day trying to buy Panama hats but none big enough for my head (Kieran writing). We visited the Panama Canal though, that was worth a visit. Luckily we got there as a hefty ship was passing through. The day we left, the city was holding a referendum as to whether to build another wider canal next to the existing one. Ships just keep growing. Lots of NO marches in the city, along with the less vocal YES supporters.




1 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

"Did you know... the canal was designed by Ferdinand DeLesseps. There was something dodgy going on in terms of shares which nearly brought down the French government of the time."
"Fancy that"
"No i don't fancy that..."

7:46 AM  

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