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Three Faces of Panama City

PANAMA | Thursday, 13 February 2025 | Views [6188]

Million-dollar views with Million-dollar price tags

Million-dollar views with Million-dollar price tags

WITH A LAUNDRY BAG FULL OF DIRTY CLOTHES and a few days to kill before we headed to the Darién rain forest, we booked an AirBnB just outside Casco Antiguo, Panama City’s Old Quarter. 

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                It's actually safe  . . .  thanks to the National Police

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                        It has a certain charm, don't you think?

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                            The walk to Casco Antiguo

Our immediate neighborhood has seen better days but the building is secure and the apartment has everything we need plus a supermarket next door and a laundry around the corner.

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                Cathedral

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           Historic Casco Antiguo

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              Colonial Casco Antiguo

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                 Restored Casco Antiguo

It’s an easy walk to the World Heritage Old Quarter with plenty of armed National Police to keep tourists and gangs from adjacent El Chorillo and Santa Ana separated. Once neighborhood of the wealthy, Casco Antiguo is a tourists dream with restored colonial buildings, bars, restaurants, souvenir stands and Instagram photos on every corner while across the bay sprouts a forest of million-dollar high-rise apartments.

 

 

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