Huh?!

Overbooked flights

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December 19th 2007
Don´t they suck?!!! So yesterday, after more Panamanian Taxi-Trauma, I finally get to the airport only to be told the flight is overbooked, and I´ll have to wait for the same flight the next day. So they taxi´d me back to the City Centre and put me up in th 5 star Riande Continental. Yay. I felt so out of place, a scruffy traveller in an expensive hotel. Though, to be honest, if I´d bee ... read more

Central America Caribbean » Panama » Panamá » Panama City

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With US backing, Panama seceded from Colombia in 1903 and promptly signed a treaty with the US allowing for the construction of a canal and US sovereignty over a strip of land on either side of the structure (the Panama Canal Zone). The Panama Canal ... ... read more