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Faces Of Central America
Many vendors displayed their goods in the street: socks, hats, CD and DVD etc. Every hour or so, the police would come and everybody packed in a hurry… to start selling again five minutes later!
¿Y Ahora Qué?
There is no way we are coming back to Canada now. So we bought a plane ticket to… Perú. We will arrive in Lima, and travel in South America for quite a while.
Busing Around Central America
But busing around in Central America is not that straightforward. First of all, we have to agree on the definition of a bus. If it has no windows and no doors, it is still a bus?
Border Crossing - Panamá To Costa Rica
On Tuesday morning, we boarded the bus, barely awake. It took us just an hour to get to the border.
Cuidado En Panama
The streets are just a mess of cars stopping, cars trying to turn, to reverse, to park, all at the same time and at full speed. “Diablos Rojos” (city buses), cars, motocycles, trucks… just ram into each other constantly and never ever give way.
Boquete, Chiquiri Province
We left Panamá city for David, and now we are in Boquete, about 1 hour 1/2 from David.
Panamá, Old And New
Panamá is a strange city, somewhat a bit schizophrenic. Half of it is old, half of it is new. Anything is between is either demolished or in construction.
Buenos Dias Panamá!
It’s a different world here. Palm trees and coconuts, food stalls in the streets, people hanging out chatting at 3:00am, military and policía with machine guns at every corner, tinted windows and bullet proof doors…
