Panama City, Panama - Day 152

Panama city is Famous for the Canal which connects the Pacific ocean to the Caribbean and with it comes big business and the most modern city we have been to in a while. Although the city does not have a huge population (around 500,000), there seemed to be more sky scrapers than people. We stayed in the old section of the city, called Casco Viejo. Casco Viejo has inhabitants of extreme wealth and extreme poverty living right next to one another, as well as very modern buildings right next to dilapidated ones that were built by the Spanish Conquistadors. All of this was in high contrast after coming from the deserted islands. Instead of visiting the Panama Canal (which doesn't look any different than any other boat harbor), we decided to visit a jungle in the middle of the city called Parque Nacional Metropolitano.

Casco Viejo

Very old buildings next to new ones

View of Panama City from the park

Parque Metropolitano has hundreds of different bird species. We were lucky enough to find Woody The Woodpecker!

Sloth hanging out on a building