After our hotel breakfast we headed out to the metro, this time heading south to the original site of Panama City. After getting off the subway we grabbed a cab heading to the ruins ($6 USD). The original city of Panama was established in the early 1500's but was destroyed by the privateer Henry Morgan in 1671. Not much left of it now. The museum was nice (full of information) but the ruins are sparse. We were there about an hour I think.
We took another cab to a metro station not far away from the first one but strangely the fare was only $3 USD LOL Ripped off earlier by a cabbie!
We took the metro all the way north to Albrook mall where we took another taxi to the Metropolitan Natural Park; a beautiful nature preserve with a few hiking paths in the jungle (located on a small mountain). We saw turtles, agoutis, a sloth, some monkeys and a coati.
According to Caro's watch we climbed the equivalent of over 70 floors in our day (most of those floors on those hiking trails!
We got another cabbie at the park with the idea that we would go back to Albrook mall and get the metro back here but the fellow was very persuasive and strongly suggested we go out to the Amador causeway. I am glad we did. It was a beautiful drive out and the views of the city are stunning. We had a wonderful late afternoon meal and the driver waited for us as we were using him to return to our hotel and tomorrow morning's trip to the airport.
Tonight Caro used the jacuzzi while I stayed in the room.
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