A Trip To Panama City
Day 1:
We arrived at Omar Torrijos airport via American Airlines early in the
afternoon. We purchased our required tourist cards (3 balboas, as US dollars are
called in Panama) at the airport, then caught a taxi for the 18 mile ride to our
downtown hotel. The ride in the battered, un-airconditioned car was rather
expensive (30 balboas), but the driver spoke English and was very friendly. We
arrived at the hotel and checked in. While my dad was checking in I bought a
guidebook in the hotel lobby and read up on the history of Panama City. The
original city was founded in 1519 by Pedro Arias Davila, known as Pedrarias the
Cruel, because of his eradication of all but three of the local Indian tribes
during his tenure in Panama. Davila used the city as a place to store Incan
gold before it was shipped to Spain. The original city was sacked and burned
in 1671 by a group of buccaneers led by Henry Morgan. The city was rebuilt
within a year, this time on a......
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