Tuesday, November 24, 2009

It`s not that gruelling, really

I have been getting emails from various people who seem to think the trip has been gruelling. I think I may have overstated the case in my previous postings. There was a time (around Belize/Honduras) that we may have travelled a tad far a tad fast...but for the most part I would have to say it has been thoroughly (sp?) enjoyable and interesting.

We have been exploring Panama City for the past couple of days. We have been for a longish walk each day (about 3-4 hours each). The first day we walked down to the Pacific Ocean and then into the newish part of the city where the highrises are, today we walked the other way into the old part. There is a LOT of construction going on in the new part of the city. The skyline looks like Shanghai did when we were there three years ago-- at least 10 new highrises going up on the horizon (a conservative estimate). You can tell that if you took a new picture of that part of the city once a year, the pictures would show a vastly different skyline each time. It is a similar story in a different way in the old part of the city. The section called San Filipe was apparently declared a world heritage site in 1997. There are a lot of buildings being converted back to their former glory as you walk around. There are also a lot of skeletons of old buildings too. All in all I would say a LOT of money is being spent on new and old construction all over the place here. I hope the general population ends up benefitting somehow.

We still haven`t seen the canal during the day -- I think that is on the agenda for tomorrow

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