On Day 3, took a trip to Panama City, a close to 2 hour drive from the resort to the old city of Panama. Panama City is the capital and largest city of Panama.
with a population of over 1.5 million in its metropolitan area. Located at the Pacific entrance of the Panama Canal a hub for banking and commerce, often
meaning rich people and corporations evading paying taxes in their home country.
Panama City was founded in 1519 by Spanish conquistador Pedro Arias Dávila, the starting point for expeditions that eventually conquered the Inca Empire
in Peru. It was a stopover point on one of the most important trade routes in the American continent, through which passed most of the gold and silver that
Spain took from the Americas.
The original city, called Panamá Viejo, was destroyed by a fire when privateer (pirate) Henry Morgan sacked and set fire to it. This site of the previously
devastated city is still in ruins. The city was reestablished two years later in 1673, on a peninsula 8 km. from the original settlement, today called
Casco Viejo, designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1997.
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Above: The Playa Farallón beach by the Royal Decameron resort after sunrise.
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1 and 2 show my 12-room building, and one to the west of it.
3 shows the sun rising over the Pacific Ocean.
4, 5 and 13 shows the view around lobby one, including the most important room ... the bar.
6 to 8 show the Panamai breakfast buffet, the smallest of the three breakfast buffets, but the closest for me.
9 and 10 is the pool by the slide.
11 and 12 show the Playa Farallón beach.
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