Panama City & Canal

We passed through Panama City for a couple of nights before heading on to Colombia.  We decided to take the opportunity to do some shopping to make sure our gear is ready for the next leg of the trip (this is what people seem to come to Panama City to do....shopping tourism...messed up!).


Ahhhh shopping malls ..... 

The modern architecture of Panama City is part of the city's appeal ..... while its not our kind of thing Panama seems to do this better than pretty much all Australian city's.

We also couldn't pass up the opportunity to take a look at the Panama Canal.

An engineering marvel or a human and environmental disaster? Given that 102,000 people died during its construction and the dynamic of an environment permanently altered on a continental scale, its hard to look at this structure in a positive way.

The Colonial part of town in Panama, cute but deserted.