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Travel Blogs from Panama City
Gangnam Style takes Panama City, Panama
... video as a love letter to Panama. Jacqui loves making videos and preforming human experiments, by which I mean seeing how surprised, unsuspecting Panamanians react to things, so together Jacqui, Davita, Dagmar and I went all over Panama City dancing up a storm in public.
Most of our scenes were filmed in Albrook mall, which was crowded and attracted allot of attention. Aside from that we danced on the streets of ...
One continent down, one to go..
... Nicaragua. Rooms in the nicest hotel on the square - (stuff the expense I've been roughing it for weeks!) and I started to feel good about the day again. A quick visit to an ATM to replenish our dollars was needed too - all split into smaller amounts and hidden amongst our bike gear and luggage. Granada's claim to fame is as the first city in the Americas. Parts of the atlantic coast including Granada were once invaded by the British including pirate groups and ...
Off to Panama
... We thought it was only a half hour walk but about 1.5 hours later we arrived there, in the dark, with tired, grumpy kids!
There isn't a lot of English spoken here so we are appreciating Tameka having learnt Spanish for a few years at school and sign language is also coming in handy!
We have an early start tomorrow so off to bed at a reasonable hour.
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Panama - Panama City
... and were stopped after about 15 minutes at a search point. Our driver instructed us to stay in the car, we watched as our fellow boaters were asked to empty their backpacks onto the tables for closer inspection, eventually they were allowed to go when they realised the most they'd find was dirty underwear. Our driver palmed some notes off on the guards and we were only required to show our hand luggage so off we set for ...
First stop - Panama City
... and we spent many happy hours drinking local beer and finding out where to go in South America while enjoying the panama canal vista.
The next day we went into the old town which was really charming and visited the international canal museum which provided an indepth (some would say exhausting!) display of the history of the Panama canal and the politics involved in America handing it back to the Panama. They also had a whole floor dedicated to the Third ...