Dec 8
During our trip to Panama City did take a very early morning excursion out of the capital to Gamboa, a town on the banks of the Panama Canal half way across the isthmus.
Gamboa is surrounded by world-famous birding trails and the tropical rainforest of Soberanía National Park plus the powerful Rio Chagres that feeds the artificial Lago Gatun, via the monumental Gatun Dam, which is an integral part of the Panama Canal.
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We flew to Panama City this afternoon, around about a 70-minute flight from Managua for the next part of our holiday.
After the remoteness and quiet that one feels in Nicaragua, the 2nd poorest nation in the Western Hemisphere, we now find ourselves in Panama City, the most cosmopolitan city in Central America, which isn’t a real surprise given it’s rich diversity given to it by the famed, almost century old Canal plus it’s reputation as an international banking centre.
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Tomorrow we head off for our summer holiday. We will spend tomorrow night in Coral Gables, a spit away from Miami Airport, and then Friday fly to Managua in Nicaragua.
Last year we holidayed this same time of year in Costa Rica – the howler monkey that flies across the top of this blog will tell you how much we adored it. My other half has little or no flexibility on her work holiday allocation, unlike me, which may not come as a total surprise to you, so our desire to see a lot of Latin America is hindered by these two weeks being the optimum time to getaway. Hindered because the further south in the Americas one goes it is winter and many countries in Central America are as hot as hades this time of year.
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Sarasota, Florida
