The drive was particularly interesting, as we drove along the coastline of the Caribbean, passing thru many small towns. After visiting one of the souvenir shops, and walking thru the fort, we found a nice quiet place on the beach for lunch. The town was rather quiet today, probably since it was Tuesday. The weather was rather cloudy, and it misted off and on while in town.
After soaking in the scenery including the wave actions along the beach, we headed back towards Panama City. We would have liked to go on into the town of Colon, but we have heard that it is not a safe town to travel to. Colon was one of the stops we made when we took a cruise a few weeks ago, but we did not venture out beyond the cruise terminal. We heard of a few reports of the cruise passengers having trouble while in town, so we decided that we could very easily skip seeing Colon.
Here are a few pics of Portobelo......
Driving back we stopped at the Parque Natural Metropolitano, which is a tropical forest right on the city limits of Panama City. After getting information on the many trails available to explore, we decided to leave that for some future morning when it would be a bit cooler.
In order to get back to the apartments, we had to once again drive thur the gauntlet of downtown traffic. I finally got my groove on, and started to blow the horn on that little Sentra like a mad man. It felt good!
One a side note, we have been fortunate enough to see various wildlife while here. We have seen a monkey, a few capybara's, a crocodile, but no sloth yet. Well on the drive to Portobelo, we saw our first sloth, but unfortunately he must of been too slow to cross the road, and had ended up as road kill on the side. Poor fellow.
