TRAVEL DIARY: PANAMA

Panama has so much to offer. In Panama City, the five star hotels are beautiful and very reasonably priced, and I could have spent hours wandering into boutiques and grazing at the restaurants in the trendy/elegant Casco Viejo neighborhood (not quite in the same area as those mega-hotels). The city is such a fascinating contrast of new luxury and hip development, right beside the numerous slumlike apartments and gray, industrial shipping ports. 

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