Everywhere you go, everyone you talk to, the headline business is The Canal.
So first thing this morning we took a very comfortable Uber ride (yep, Uber is here) to the Biomuseum. This just happens to be a Frank Gehry designed modern exhibition hall which is brilliant. Well the building is, the exhibition is pretty good, too.
Then we saw some caterpillars and were reminded “Panama” means full of butterflies.
Time for a taxi to …. the Miraflores locks on The Panama Canal. We toured the exhibition, very interesting how scientific solutions were found in the building period – 1903/1914 – and reminders of the scale of the construction. In 2015 the new, bigger locks were commissioned, but the originals are still running flat out.
We had a ridiculously expensive (but rather good) buffet lunch in the only restaurant in town, completed by the arrival of some big, and some not so big, ships, which we witnessed passing through the lock gates. If you want to know more about the workings, history, new developments, etc, I suggest you click here.
Brought up in my earliest years near the River Thames’ Teddington lock, it is only a matter of scale.
Parrillada Jimmy was the locals’ restaurant for dinner. Great bass skewers we ate in an open sided ranch type wooden building surrounded by the teeming car, van, bus and lorry traffic that is Panama City; the CO2 levels are to die for and, apparently, Yoda-ing me.
Chris & Kath's Travel Time 