Lonely Planet says it best: “Panama City’s hippest neighborhood is also its smallest. Just four avenues wide, Casco Viejo (literally meaning ‘old quarter’) is a UNESCO protected district and a barrio on the up. It wasn’t long ago that gangs patrolled these narrow brick streets and visitors kept far away, but these days the grand old colonial […]
First, apologies for those looking at the few previous posts. WordPress has been upgraded to the snazzy new “Gutenberg” editor, and the old slideshow mode stopped working. I’ve got an interim version in those posts now, so you may want to go back and check them out if you actually want to see the pictures. […]
We went to the Miraflores Locks of the Panama Canal today. Quick reminder: France tried to build the canal in late 1800’s, and it almost bankrupted them. U.S. took over in 1903, but not before they basically sent gunships down and told Colombia that either they would grant Panama independence and get a bunch of […]
Today we went on a tour of Panama City. We’ll talk about most of it in other posts. There was one place we visited, however, that would have been a huge hit with my dad. The Church of San Jose in Casco Viejo, or La Inglesia de San Jose, is one of the most prominent […]
Landed in Panama City via Miami. We had a driver waiting for us, as it was 10:30 in the evening on Christmas Eve. Our hotel, the Magnolia Inn, is in the old town, or Casco Viejo, and we drove through miles and miles of high rise buildings to get there. We thought it strange that […]
This is a bit of a bait and switch. Actually, a really big bait and switch. We didn’t see many birds, surprisingly. There are supposed to be a lot of them here. We did, however, on the way back to the airport in Liberia see some when we stopped for lunch, see a pair of […]
We would be remiss if we did not express our gratitude for the generosity of our host in absentia in Quepos. Kevin’s place is named “Dos Palmas,” translated to “Two Palms.” Now the truth is that there are more than two palms on the property, but there are two that are worthy of having the […]
A word about Quepos, the town in which we stayed most of the week. Quepos is a district and the capital of Aguirre canton in Puntarenas Province. The population is about 22,000 people. Although the town is about 60 km. south (in a straight line) from Costa Rica’s capital, San José, it is 157 km from that city by road, and the traffic was […]
We had a little visitor today. I was laying on the bed going through photos when I noticed movement in the window. Turns out… it was a monkey, I believe of the Squirrel Monkey variety. Turns out he was quite a natural model. Even though I’ve probably deleted about a hundred pics of him, there […]
On Friday afternoon we finally went fishing. There had been a series of weather delays and assorted issues, but we made it out onto the water. Our guide was Danny, and the boat owner was Juan. We high-tailed it out to a bunch of islands and rocks soutwest of Manuel Antonio. I had asked Danny […]
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