Hallo, we spent the last five days in Panama.
We visited Panama City, the Panama Canal and did daytrips inland to El Valle, one to the island Taboga with white sand beaches and to the north coast to the city "Portobelo", Colon and the locks of the canal towards the atlantic ocean.
Panama city is very impressive as there are on the one hand a lot of luxurious and modern skyscrapers and beautifully renovated colonial buildings and on the other hand old and dirty colonial and wood/brick buildings either abandoned or homes to poor people.
The countryside is beautiful and green..which we are not used to any more as in the last few months we have been more or less only to deserts and in high altitude, where there is no green vegetation at all. Therefore it was a pleasure for our eyes. The houses in the countryside are nice and well kept, most of them have a green lawn around and a lot of coloured flowers in front.
The island Taboga is a one hour trip by boat from Panama City and is a small, peaceful, green island where we spent the afternoon sunbathing and swimming in the clear waters of the sea. Although the weather was not that good (a lot of dark rain clouds covering mostly of the sun) it was very hot and damp so that swimming in the sea was really a relief and we both got a thorough sunburned skin although we applied sunscreen of strengh 20 ! :-(
(...and that after 5 months of traveling ...but our belly and all other parts except our face and hands did defenitely NOT get a lot of sun during our voyage :-)
We visited Panama City, the Panama Canal and did daytrips inland to El Valle, one to the island Taboga with white sand beaches and to the north coast to the city "Portobelo", Colon and the locks of the canal towards the atlantic ocean.
Panama city is very impressive as there are on the one hand a lot of luxurious and modern skyscrapers and beautifully renovated colonial buildings and on the other hand old and dirty colonial and wood/brick buildings either abandoned or homes to poor people.
The countryside is beautiful and green..which we are not used to any more as in the last few months we have been more or less only to deserts and in high altitude, where there is no green vegetation at all. Therefore it was a pleasure for our eyes. The houses in the countryside are nice and well kept, most of them have a green lawn around and a lot of coloured flowers in front.
The island Taboga is a one hour trip by boat from Panama City and is a small, peaceful, green island where we spent the afternoon sunbathing and swimming in the clear waters of the sea. Although the weather was not that good (a lot of dark rain clouds covering mostly of the sun) it was very hot and damp so that swimming in the sea was really a relief and we both got a thorough sunburned skin although we applied sunscreen of strengh 20 ! :-(
(...and that after 5 months of traveling ...but our belly and all other parts except our face and hands did defenitely NOT get a lot of sun during our voyage :-)
Also the visit of the Panama Canal was a "must" and vert interesting. If you want to know more as well.... click here or go to the "What you never dared to ask"-section :-)
We enjoyed the total difference to the other countries and people we have visited during the last months!
On monday we will continue to our last (Aaaahhhhh! :-( ) stop : Dominican Republic ...
How fast time goes by!
We are looking forward to seeing you all again!
Renate
2 comments:
Hi Renni,
freu mich auf ein Wiedersehen und viele interessante Berichte ;-))).
Liebe Grüsse, Martina
Hallo Mirko,
Vielen Dank fuer Deine Karte aus Machu Picchu. Sieht ja echt lohnenswert aus. Eine Peru-Reise steht bei uns auch ganz oben auf der langen Liste.
Ich hoffe, Euch hat Bonito gefallen. Ist zwar etwas teurer dort, dafuer echt einzigartig. Wart Ihr Schnorcheln am Rio Sucuri?
Gruss aus Curitiba,
Christian
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