Panama by Daniele Somenzi
Stato: PANAMA (PA)
Panama
The Panama Canal has always attracted me, that's why I organized this trip solo, with Delta Airlines flight from Atlanta to Milan via Panama city, where the evening arrival of the same day of departure but in the middle of the night in my body.
is already dark when it landed with 737, and it rains, I do carry at the nearest airport, I had to sleep right away.
The next morning, of course, I wake up very early time, but I continue to stand as if it were noon in Italy, then a bath after breakfast in the hotel swimming pool, given the high temperature. I tell of how people and the city, do give me a map and I am organizing for a self drive tour.
I take a rental car and go towards Costa rica in the center of Panama City, an indescribable chaos is also why the rush hour, all morning to go to work. The cars that are more Scassa new look at the map and I see that turning on the right do the Circonvalazione, in fact, within a bypass that leads me now oppusto side, just a few hundred meters from the channel. I approach the best possible drops and filmo a passing ship, it seems a ship traveling to the garden. Approaching more, added up to almost under the ship. There are many locks that are first to go on top and then the ship-side at the level of the sea. Takes about 8 hours to do all the crossing, but would take more than 12 days if you do circunnavigazione southern america, then you pay the toll and you gain time.
Naturist tankers to pass, too grandi.Il channel is just past the property to the Panamanian American, now in fact the money remain in Panama.
Allotment and along the canal to a point where there is a national park, come down and I wander a little walk in the jungle, birds, lizards and even a strange beautiful serpent erected in front of me that just does not bite me because I was the trampling having not seen, the instinctive reflex the attack, made me jump back, I took a shot, he is scared then quickly fled in the brook near them so I could film. Meeting very exciting, I love snakes, even if we just leave the pens. Go into the Gulf of Mexico and I see from afar the exit of the convoy of 6 ships at sea.
Here are 3 million people and we speak Spanish, so I have no difficulty to understand me, I just speak Italian and Spanish and we understand.
Arrival at the town of Colon, and then to Portobelo, where then I decide not to continue further. I have enough that I've seen up to them.
I wanted to sleep in Colon, but looking at those hotels are dilapidated me discouraged and in the end it was only 3 hours from where I had already slept, cost little and was beautiful.
then I'm still an hour to eat and avoid a hair a mega tropical shower those who arrive in blank.
I start on the way back, the radio says the company is not the best alone, but I am of the opinion that it is better to just stay at home when you can go.
There are thousands of very fine bow tie, which unfortunately are mown by the passage of cars. I also filmed.
Arrived at the hotel, return the car after the full and so I have more concerns,
The day after I take a walk and I am fun to see what the life of Panama, flower beds full of flowers and dirt coexist. I realize that's on the back there are three cages with animals inside, such as the toucan and strange species of monkeys.
I understood why everyone should be in Costa rica that even here, the only attraction if we want to call it so, is the channel, while there are more interesting things to see and to hear this, there are still gone for the moment.
I am accompanied to the airport, the flight of the Delta in the late morning perte.
This time not with darkness, and I see the tape off, and you can see very well from Panama city, and then all of the Caribbean including Cuba
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