Panama City day 2: Panama Viejo and Miraflores Locks

Our second day in Panama City, we got a cab to take us to Panama Viejo, the original site of Panama City. This was also destroyed by Captain Morgan in 1671. Modern Panama City was rebuilt in a different (and more defensible) spot.
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cathedral tower at the original site of Panama City
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looking out from the top of the tower
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Evan wanted to go already
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looking toward modern Panama City
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looking toward the main part of the town
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history of the cathedral: built in 1524 and destroyed in 1671
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running through the ruins
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the other side has been restored a lot more
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old and new Panama City
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model of Panama Viejo in the museum
From Panama Viejo, our cab took us through lots of traffic across Panama City and north to Miraflores Locks. This set of locks has a very nice 4 story visitor center with exhibits on how the canal was built and how it works. We watched from the 4th floor observation deck as a couple of big cargo ships got lowered in the locks.
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one of the brightly colored Panama City buses
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Evan at the Miraflores Locks visitor center
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looking east toward the San Miguel Locks
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inside a culvert model at the visitor center
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Evan at the traffic control model
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the ship simulator showed a speeded up canal transit
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watching a ship transit the Miraflores Locks