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A Trip To Panama City - Term Papers

A Trip To Panama City

Day 1:
We arrived at Omar Torrijos airport via American Airlines early in the
afternoon. We purchased our required tourist cards (3 balboas, as US dollars are
called in Panama) at the airport, then caught a taxi for the 18 mile ride to our
downtown hotel. The ride in the battered, un-airconditioned car was rather
expensive (30 balboas), but the driver spoke English and was very friendly. We
arrived at the hotel and checked in. While my dad was checking in I bought a
guidebook in the hotel lobby and read up on the history of Panama City. The
original city was founded in 1519 by Pedro Arias Davila, known as Pedrarias the
Cruel, because of his eradication of all but three of the local ...

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excellent internationall cuisine. Eager to begin our
sightseeing, we grabbed lunch at a nearby McDonald's after checking in then
caught a bus. The buses in Panama are a tourist attraction in themselves. They
are brightly painted, hung with fringe, and have constantly blaring Salsa and
Caracas music playing. They are cheap (50 cents a ride). but are very crowded.
After asking several drivers “Donde va este autobus?” we finally found one going
to the Plaza Independencia. This plaza is the main square of the colonial town
and is bordered on one side by a cathedral with twin mother of pearl towers that
took 108 years to complete. On two other sides it is bordered by the
Archbishop's Palace, now a university and the Central Post Office. While in the
old part of Panama City we also visited the Iglesia de San Jose and saw the
Golden Aaltar. This altar was in the original Panama City and was saved from
Henry Morgan's pirates by a monk who painted it black to disguise it. When ...

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Added: 6/28/2007 04:26:01 PM
Category: Geography
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