The economy is booming here, but this is the nicer part of town.

A view of the city from the Amador Causeway, built with the rubble excavated from the canal. We took a taxi for an hours ride around the city after buying some spares we needed.

Driving through "Frenchquarter" the driver told us to hide the camera(yea right!)

A trademark of Latin America is brightly painted buses. Quote from The Panama Crusing Guide " The Red Devil buses are a part of Panama's culture. They are tuned up, high horsepower US Schoolbuses with no mufflers but large sound systems. They noisily roar through the city respecting no traffic regulations, leaving a wake of thick black smoke, cursing drivers and an occasional victim. Bus culture is defiant and they are proud of it"

Colonial architecture, and someone on lookout...

Picking through garbage for anything useful, the ground is sodden even though it does not rain as much as the North coast, or "Costa Arriba"

This is the Bridge of the Americas, all canal traffic passes under it. Literally it joins the two continents.

Us in tourist mode...

The calm Pacific ocean...