29/07/04-01/08/04 Panama City, Panama

Well the canal was vaguely interesting. Other than that I would not advise anyone to ever come here for anything. Quite simply the most dull town on the planet.

Our first hotel was nasty- there was a man with white shorts with a huge brown stain on the back and drinking beer at 9am, beating his woman away. Second hotel was clean but it had plastic covering on the bed and a permanent free adult channel. They only cleaned the rooms at night and they could be rented hourly, etc. given that there was a red light district around there. Nice. Didn't like the place- canal museum at Miraflores locks interesting. Old part of town pretty desolate- much of it destroyed by Americans in 1989 in 'Operation Just Cause'- go to your local library and find out more about it- the Panamanians are gentrifying it to attain a greater tourist pull (so your local library is going to look great but there'll be loads of people in there taking pictures).