Mamallena Backpackers Panama City

Om kwee redenen waren hadden we gekozen voor Panama City:<br><br>1 Met slecht weer kun je beter in de stad zitten (we hadden op internet gezien dat het in heel Midden Amerika de komende kwee weken zou pleuren).<br><br>2 Wellicht was het een mooie plek om te gaan dansen.<br><br>Maar:<br><br>1 Het weer werd steeds stralender en stralender in de bus onderweg naar Panama City.<br><br>2 Dansen bleek al snel een heel dure grap te zijn in Panama city ...

... lacking in details. Even so, we walked a fairly big chunk of Panama City and are looking forward to exploring the parks and the Canal in the next couple of days.<br><br>First impressions: skyscrapers and construction galore,a disappointing choice of budget hotels, a huge variety of restaurants and shopping, friendly and helpful people. And heat. And humidity...<br>

... popolo di pescatori che, per sfuggire<br>alla dominazione spagnola, si rifugiarono in queste isole<br>dell&#8217;Atlantico per vivere secondo le proprie leggi e tradizioni,<br>immutate da secoli, e valide anche per chi viene come semplice<br>visitatore.<br>

... out happens alot). So we had to move on. In Panama City when you're moving from the Casco Viejo area towards the center of town, it goes from the old and dirty area, to the truly scummy area, to the dirty casino/hooker area, to the nice casino/hooker area, to the nice restaurant/bank area, to the nice quiet restaurant/ residencial area. It took us six hours of looking at hotels and catching cabs to get to the nice qiuet part of town. But. we were so hot and sick-n-tired of ...

... other end being lowered into either the Pacific or Atlantic Ocean depending on their direction of travel. During its construction over 152.9 million cubic meters of material were removed. The lock chambers are 33.5 m wide and 305 m long. The gates at the Miraflores locks are 25 m high and weigh 730 tons. For each lockage approx. 197 million litres of fresh water is displaced to eventually flow out to sea. The transit for ...

... we lounged in couches and on mattresses spread throughout the room. It was a fun way to sopend our last evening in Panama. So one final thing that needed to be mentioned in this blog was the insane amount of male attention we received in Panama. In fact we were practically convinved that we had magically become about ten times hotter during our trip from Rio to Panama because we seriously could not go more than 10m down a road without getting tooted ...

... and then climbed onto my hand when i put it out. "I am bird-man!" i thought "Finally the animals are under my command!" - then i found out it was owned and trained by the locals next door. Oh well. It was fun while it lasted. Then later i found a scorpion on the wall of the hostel for a bit and kept it in a glass for a while, observing it's strange behavior and seeing if it would sting a Biro..... which it didn't. And now here i am in a hostel called ...

... were empty, Unfortuantly for him his rearview mirror breaks and i barly feel the hit but it does force me to drop my beer, thankfully both beers survive. The car Then pulls up a head on a one way with his emergencies Probably trying to start a fight so we hang back until they pull up a bit more, we carry on walking the stop with emergencies again... finnally he pulls away, probably just some ...

... beautifully warm, lagoon-blue, Caribbean water, and headed up the coast to Cozumel. Eli learned to dive while I chilled out, spent hours catching up on blogs and nearly ran over lizards, a snake and surprisingly aggressive road-crossing crabs, while I toured the island on a moped (I'm so getting a moped when I get to Oz!). Eli all certified up, we headed across the border to Belize to Caye Caulker to dive the famous Blue Hole. http://images.google.co.uk/images?hl=en &q=the ...