Le Meridien Panama Panama City

People kept telling me that I would soon loose track of time and I<br>have. I have to make an effort to keep up with the day of the week. My<br>dad always says in retirement, that everyday is Saturday except for<br>Sunday when the fat paper comes. Well, I don't even get the paper.<br>Anyway, getting up early here is easy to do. I'm going to finally go to<br>the big zoo here in Panama today and hopefully to the museum for the<br>Panama Canal and the Miraflora Locks. I need to get ...

... Panama City already has its skyscrappers which distinguish it from other Central American cities so does it really need a colonial tourist theme park as well? What if the city spent the money to restore these homes so that they are livable for the people who currently reside in them and keep the community in the hands of those who have grown up in it, lived in it, and died in it? The question remains for how long these people will be able to fight for it before they are moved out ...

... ship entering the locks to exiting is approximatelt 40 minutes, considerably faster than we all thought on observation. After spending a few hours in the sweltering heat witnessing these giants pass through the water we headed by taxi to the Causeway, a stretch of road linking 3 small Islands in the Bay of Panama, to where we cooled off with a sundowner cocktail and a cold beer. Playa Coronado is one of the closest beaches to the City, providing us with a great day to ...

... 30 Israelis. They work behind the counter, ignoring everyone else except their friends. They have their feet up on the couch near your head, talking, nay yelling to each other while you try to watch a movie. They smoke their cigarettes inside the hostel, right next to the clearly marked sign stating that by law you need to smoke outside (this was the guy working behind the counter as well). This particular group don't talk to anyone else, and if you try to start a ...

We are transiting the Panama Canal today. We went through the first lock at 9am and didn't exit it till around 5pm. There were a lot of ships waiting to transit the canal too. We had a person come on board and tell us through the loud speaker what we were looking at and doing throughout the day. We first transited the Miraflores Locks which took about an hour. Next we went through the ...

... are sooo cheap! I feel spoiled. I got a pair of shorts and two shirts for $10. Back near our hotel, we found an awesome Chinese restaurant for dinner. $3.50 buys a giant plate of food that is enough for two people and even comes with a soda. Between the nice hotel, cheap clothes and good food, Panama City has redeemed itself! (Apr. 2) Walked down past Plaza Cinco de Maya to the pedestrian street with an even greater abundance of cheap clothes for ...

Posilam slunecne pozdravy do vasich domovu. Za 3,5 hodiny odletam do Havany, Kuba. Na pevnine v cele Stredni Americe mi bylo nadherne, a tak jsem zvedav, jak to bude vypadat na slavnem to ostrove Kuba. Doufam, ze vse probehne hladce a s brachou si dnes pripijeme poprve na revoluci s mojitem v ruce. :) Uzijte si vikend! :)

... is sunset. The sky seems to be a different shade of blue everyday and the sunset makes the sky a gorgeous yellow-orange. It is indescribable. On Sundays we usually make an excursion to different areas around here. Sometimes we have a destination in mind, and sometimes we just take a road we haven't explored before. The mountains are beautiful, the beaches great. We don't see too much wildlife here although there are turtles on the ...

... a napoleon of pineapple and strawberries and a warm apple tart with vanilla ice cream. We actually left some of the napoleon -- rather than having a puffed pastry, the pineapple slices made up the horizontal layers and although good, it was almost too much as we had chowed down on pineapple at the Embera Village earlier in the day. We didn't leave a drop of the apple tart -- very good! This morning we got up, packed, checked one suitcase at the Bristol ...

Apologies for the lack of updates....I´ve been far too busy getting stuck in remote Colombia after being dropped off a 5 day sailing trip from Panama in the middle of nowhere..anyway..thats a later story....Panama already seems so long ago and after early hours drinking and dancing (yes- I was dancing - badly) its hard to recollect the details but here goes.. -Collected $ from Western Union and made way to ...