Another early morning wake up call to board the flights from Lima back to Panama City. Since leaving Seattle we've been on 14 flights and stayed at 28 different hotels. We will be happy to finally make it back to sleeping in our own beds. But we are still one night away from that because our flight into Panama arrives after the last ferry departs to where our boat is moored. So we are spending the night in a small hotel in the Casco Viejo district of Panama City. Its a cool old colonial part of town.
Lots of hotels and small restaurants are here as the old french colonial style buildings are very quickly being refurbished.
Though buildings like the one above can be found right next door to a building that looks like this one. Rumor is that there are a lot of squatters living in these old run down buildings that are awaiting renovation. This means that the district is an odd mix of upscale cars and people right along side some fairly questionable types that you wouldn't want to meet on a dark alley at night.
