Panama continued

3/17 - JG: we take an overnight bus to Panama City, which is nine hours long and as fun as it sounds. We arrive in Panama City at 430am and are taken to a hotel at the suggestion of a taxi driver at the bus terminal. The place is a dump, but Panama City is full of commerce, and the old city (Casco Viejo, built in the late 1600s after the original Panama City was destroyed by pirates) is located only a 10-minutes cab ride away. Along the way, we visited the Canal, befriended a lone Swiss traveler trekking Central America for 7 months, and even a Panamanian secret service agent who was patrolling for the president and who we met up later in the evening.

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