Well what a difference to Colon. The city is liberally scatterred with 100 story or there about sky scrapers. The shopping malls go on for ever. One of the malls ...Multiplaza Pacifica... has all the top end shops and was not that busy. We enjoyed walking around there as it was really different and bigger than anything that we have been in for a number of years. The other centre we went to was even larger with many more shops with very cheap clothes etc. It was interesting to see that these shops actually had many clients unlike the other one where we looked at a shoe shop and a pair of not so great looking shoes but with the right lable on cost $1250.00. Getting around is easy as there are many taxi's and one can usually negotiate a fair fare to where you are going.
We paid the fresh produce market a visit that is open every day. The prices are totally unbelieveable and we went to town on stocking up with fruit and veg. 3pineapples $1...4kg of bananas $1.65 just great stuff and fresh from the growers. When we got there we hired a Kuna Indian with his trolly to cart all our stuff(only $2) He was very good and with his limited English he showed us around and made sure that we got a fair deal. We often got him to get the price and pay. What a great experience!
The anchourage where we were was not the best and the water was filthy. We could not use our watermaker and the sides of the boat became real grimey with oil and other dirt. The wind carried a fine soot that it deposited on the boat.... on everything and everywhere.... YUCK
It is time to get out of here
Colin and Sandy, carried by their trusty vessel Papillon. Papillon is a 43ft Montecarlo Sloop. We started our journey in Portimao in Portugal and our sailing route will take us through the Caribbean and the South Pacific.
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