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It's a jungle out there, between this well kept urban park and the city center. It might not look like it from the above camera angle, but there is this forest with monkeys and snakes and big cliffs between here and there. As in a park and protected wildlife refuge at the capital's top scenic lookout, one of several national parks or protected areas that are at least partly within Panama City's municipal limits.

As this was one of the first parts of the former Canal Zone to revert to Panama after the 1977 Carter-Torrijos Treaties and can be seen from much of Panama City, the summit of Ancon Hill has long been the principal site at which the Panamanian nation claims "dibs."

It's a common practice to honor a park's proponent at that park. Poet Amelia Denis de Icaza's references to Ancon Hill more or less give her that distinction, and this statue has been located at the summit to so honor her.

Here you see the former Fort Amador off in the distance.

From another side of the hill, the Bridge of the Americas.

And here we have the allegedly sinister Port of Balboa. For a future Fun section in The Panama News, tell us where you find the Red Chinese agents in this photo.

From an iguana's perspective, one of the advantages of living in a national park is that a major predator --- humankind --- is mostly removed from the everyday list of worries.

But in the end, everything gets recycled. (Hmmmm --- is that the scent of something gross to eat? Just down the hill at the Supreme Court?)



Also in this section:
On top of Ancon Hill
Sustainable Caribbean tourism
Looking out from Plaza Francia

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