It’s easy to forget that Panama City is on the pacific coast even though the sun rises over the water.
There aren’t many non-island places on the pacific coast of the Americas that can say that.
So the canal goes roughly east to west from the Pacific to the Atlantic, very counter-intuitive.
Misc notes
– the US$ is used here, though they also have B1 coins (balboas) equivalent to $1.
– you do sometimes see the B currency symbol on price lists (eg entry fees)
– lots of US fast food chains and other companies here (Subway billboard promoted a $2 sub – the 15cm (6″) kind though)
– cabs are all yellow now (as of 2-3 years ago), don’t use meters but are cheap compared to home, and there are lots of them (like NYC)
