Panama, the city

 

PANAMA CITY

We are moored at la Playita. It's a bit rolly, but the Flamenco anchorage is dirty and the marina's are about 150$ a day! So it' will do! 

The first thing we do is take an Uber and check out the old city centre. Make sure you ask to be dropped off at San Felipe. A little bit further and you're in an area you do not want to stop!

Its completely renovated and the circulation goes all around at a good distance. Wonderful view over the new city centre. 

Some quick impressions: 

 They are serious about their churches here! Airconditioned and flat screens everywhere 😏

 We promised Loulou a cat when we get back to Grimbergen 😋

 Yummy lunch and quite good beer! 😌

 You can see the new city at the end of these streets.

Day 2 at Panama: shopping. After spending more than 1000$ in Colon on provisions for the Pacific, we now need to top it up with fresh food and some UV protective T-shirts. The girls get a proper haircut and we are actually just quite happy to stay in the airconditioning all day 😳

How to shop in style!

 Around 4 it's just a little bit less hot and we visit the Smithsonian Punta Culebra Nature centre.

It is specialised in saving the frog population.

 It has plenty of huge undisturbable iguanas.

 

 And about 35 sloths 😍

To end our three day stop at Panama city (the new city centre looks good from far, but apart from the mall, there's not really a possibility to visit anything...), we go for dinner on Isla Perico just across from our anchorage. Nice view, wonderful time just the four of us, very greasy food unfortunately, but we had a good time anyway 😊

 The girls enjoy themselves and we have a funny view with all these go-carts getting stuck 😅

 

One thing I forgot to take a picture from in the malls: do you notice the difference between these dolls and the ones in Europe?! Well real life is just like that 😜

 Time to leave and get some air! Hup to Las Perlas !!!