Posts in Category: Central America
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Panama City – The Old and the New
Founded in 1519, Panama City is the oldest post-Colombus city on the Pacific, but at the same time it’s one of the newest, boasting a skyline that seems more like Dubai or Hong Kong than anything you would expect to find in Central America. It also has an area in between the two in age, […]
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Panama Canal Half Passage
Ever since I was a boy first reading about the Panama Canal, how difficult it was to build and how it changed the world, I have wanted to see it. Well, not just see it, but be on a boat that went through the locks and passed the infamous Culebra Cut into Lake Gatun. There was […]