that in Panama City more people speek english. Things are really cheap and the shopping strip extremly long. "Lunas Castle" is the perfect hideout with all the ingredients necessary. I visited the Panama Canal - a marvel of engineering. Things go really slow while watching - but over a whole year 14'000 ships pass. Generating a third of GDP. Ater a few days Irqu and is friends from the surfresort joined me and we hung around together. Rich Irqu bought a lot off stuff including a 4th surfboard. After some fun days I had to catch my flight to Chile. Luckly the other guys had to go to the airport as well to rent their car. So after 110 days in central america my time was up (of course not all the time - 620 days to go)
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Showing posts with label Panama. Show all posts
Sunday, April 26, 2009
Panama City
There is no similar city to Panama City in all over central america. Business is booming and the city resembles Miami. With the difference
that in Panama City more people speek english. Things are really cheap and the shopping strip extremly long. "Lunas Castle" is the perfect hideout with all the ingredients necessary. I visited the Panama Canal - a marvel of engineering. Things go really slow while watching - but over a whole year 14'000 ships pass. Generating a third of GDP. Ater a few days Irqu and is friends from the surfresort joined me and we hung around together. Rich Irqu bought a lot off stuff including a 4th surfboard. After some fun days I had to catch my flight to Chile. Luckly the other guys had to go to the airport as well to rent their car. So after 110 days in central america my time was up (of course not all the time - 620 days to go)
that in Panama City more people speek english. Things are really cheap and the shopping strip extremly long. "Lunas Castle" is the perfect hideout with all the ingredients necessary. I visited the Panama Canal - a marvel of engineering. Things go really slow while watching - but over a whole year 14'000 ships pass. Generating a third of GDP. Ater a few days Irqu and is friends from the surfresort joined me and we hung around together. Rich Irqu bought a lot off stuff including a 4th surfboard. After some fun days I had to catch my flight to Chile. Luckly the other guys had to go to the airport as well to rent their car. So after 110 days in central america my time was up (of course not all the time - 620 days to go)
Friday, April 17, 2009
Bocas del Toro
The bocas del toro islands are in the northwest of Panama. There are several islands that are interesting. The main island of Colon is a famous international partytown. And I was there during springbreak. So I saw more americans that I wished for, who were testing their alcohol consumption limits. A lot of drinking games and senseless yelling. The island was a bit overpriced, but the food was good. I got to know two swiss guys from Gstaad, who were looking for surfboards they could take to the pacific. We played some chess and drank some beers.
After three days I've seen enough and went to the neigbhouring island of Bastimiento. It's much more laidback and the perfect place to hide from the people, who were taking a Santa Semana weekend in paradise. Sadly I god sick - a cold - and had to rest or a few days. The good thing about it, was that I finally found the time to do some reading. "Steppenwolf" from Hermann Hesse I liked very much. Some parallels to my live are apparent. "Fast Food Nation" - a book my brother said I'll have to read - was really reveiling. I still go to fast food joints but less often and with a bad feeling.
Twoards the end of my stay I felt good again and went through the jungle to a hidden beach. NICE
After three days I've seen enough and went to the neigbhouring island of Bastimiento. It's much more laidback and the perfect place to hide from the people, who were taking a Santa Semana weekend in paradise. Sadly I god sick - a cold - and had to rest or a few days. The good thing about it, was that I finally found the time to do some reading. "Steppenwolf" from Hermann Hesse I liked very much. Some parallels to my live are apparent. "Fast Food Nation" - a book my brother said I'll have to read - was really reveiling. I still go to fast food joints but less often and with a bad feeling.
Twoards the end of my stay I felt good again and went through the jungle to a hidden beach. NICE
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