Gamboa Rainforest

Spot the iguana and tucan
Then spot the tucan
Then spot the howler monkey
Then spot the crocodile
Then just look at the jungle
Then look at the smaller monkeys

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Panama canal!

Today Blanca had some appointments and I did a solo tour to the Panama canal (Miraflores locks), the causeway (this time they said both sides were the Pacific which made more sense to me, otherwise why need a canal?), as well as the old Colonial center of the city.

There was only me and an American man getting in a tour on a 22 hour stopover.  He was fun and amusing.

The tour was, hummmm how to say it ? Unique.

They were not very polished and their English wasn't all that strong... Christopher called it 'very green', but was just going to go with the flow.

Th:-)ey were very nice.
We traveled on a rickety bus with essentially no air conditioning (very weak with some mounted fans also weak, to circulate the air:-)).

I wouldn't have missed it for the world.

First few hours...

Goodness, what to say?  Jammed packed.
Got to Panama around 1 PM, then the hotel and then Alvi (Blanca's brother) drove us to the causeway where the Atlantic and the Pacific are only separated by a few lanes of traffic.  Had a wonderful supper of covina fish and fried, green plantains (bananas).

Alvi will drive us around in the rental in Panama City

I succeeded!

I I used a different browser and - voila! - success.

Good thing too since otherwise I might have been forced to be witty and amusing if I had to only post text.

So what is this, you ask?
Blanca had a priority pass for the lounge.... wonderful free food on offer.   We would have paid a fortune at the airport for the coffee alone.
Now just hanging out in the comfy seats until boarding can commence for Panama, in a couple hour time.

Not allowing me to post pictures in Toronto either.   So sorry people... you might just get text updates.  I've been able to do the picture uploading for years so don't know what the issue is.... just gets stuck, frozen at 'uploading 1 of 1'.

Anyway, very good flight to Toronto.  Now a 9 hour wait for next flight.

Having trouble uploading pictures

Hoping the problem is temporary

In Regina.... a long, very long way to go yet.