Sailing into Miraflores Lock

Panama Land and Water - Tuesday 2010 February 9

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February 9th 2010
For breakfast I had what is probably a local dish, chorizo sausage with onions and peppers in a brown, sort-of BBQ-flavoured sauce. I also tried “cassava pearls”, deep fried mashed cassava balls with an unidentifiable filling. Not to my taste. Plus lovely papaya and watermelon. Watermelon juice was too weak for flavour. Our first stop on the tour this morning was the museum of [url=http://whc ... 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