Riding a taxi in Panama City can only provoke many emotions like a roller coaster ride without falling, but only one dollar each. Similar to the mountain Russia can be expected to shake from left to right, feel your stomach drop, tense your muscles and squeal with excitement and / or fear among the cabin a City Panama. Like most of the taxis, especially in third world countries, the trip can make the fear for his life. However, there are some features only on a taxi ride from Panama City to make each unusual.

Taxi Foreign and Domestic

Although rumor has it eventually all yellow taxis (like New York), it is still possible to observe a great variety of shapes, styles and sizes of the management of city streets Panama. Some are new and air conditioned, while others look like they are about 1970 and have survived a serious fire and several robberies.

The exterior of taxis have a substantial dent Most other cars in Panama City. Taxi drivers have a goal to work for the passenger to their destination so they can pick up another passenger, thus increasing their cash flow. Therefore, the taxi drivers seem to have the same reservations about the movements very dangerous, and therefore get in more accidents. The rate in Panama City is never so fast that no serious damage, but the remains of these failed attempts are blatantly obvious. And once the initial damage has been done, which is another Dent?!

The interior of the taxi can bring a smile to almost anyone's face. The interior Panama City taxis almost always includes a flag or football (not the American kind) hanging from the rearview mirror, or space in a rearview mirror should be, only blocking the line of sight enough to make things interesting. In the United States and others such as countries, our idea of what a car needs to function is relatively superfluous against Panama. I mean, it really needed an interior for driving? Absolutely not!

Array of all strike

Many people complain of noise in the streets of Panama City. However, if you listen carefully, is more like an urban symphony. Some horns are the typical "beep beep", while others are similar to the shouts and whistles of the men trying desperately to get the attention of a pretty girl, or the whistle you teach your Cockatiel Pretty Bird. Either way, it is clear that drivers go to a lot of trouble to customize their horns and a sense of pride, since the exercise of the right to touch all the available opportunity.

Conversations with drivers

One of my favorite pastimes in Panama and in any external environment, is talking with local people. Undeniably one of the best ways to know a culture is through interaction with the natives in their mother tongue. In Panama, the taxi drivers and entertaining an interesting interpretation of life in the city. My conversations with them in general, to begin, "Are you Swiss? You look like the girl in the hot chocolate! "So, after clarifying that I'm from Switzerland from the 19th century, we embarked on a conversion, no doubt, colors, secure which will be the subject of conversion of dinner (if applicable).

Particularly exciting day was when he took a cab driver on a quest useless me to fix my car battery. Because it is a normal daily occurrence in Panama City, a passenger who was in the cabin when he was arrested. Then I I climbed in the front seat and we were on our way. This particular passage, a woman about 60 years old, was undoubtedly a foreigner, probably American, Canadians or Europeans. Shortly after arriving on board, he reached his destination. He gave the driver seventy-five cents, and all rates in Panama City at least a dollar. The driver said in heavily accented English, "One dolla '!" I turned around and translated, "One Dollar". Spat back, like him, with a strong accent in English, "He took me all over town!" Apparently, he felt as if the driver had been in a futile search, while hoping to get a quick. After listening to his brief explanation, with heating, jumped from the taxi and suddenly disappeared from view. Hence, the driver gave up and went to my destination. Along the way, he muttered to himself on the what and why " of the recent situation. After five minutes of being stuck in traffic and the driver leans over me to launch the food eaten by the window in a garbage can Obviously our relationship had gone through the roof, and began to ask why my "compatriot" (farmer) made a horrible thing. "Do not know I have to eat? "So I explained that although it was not my" compatriot, "foreigners in general, taxi implement the protocol stems from the label their motherland. Another day, another dollar for him, and a mini conference on the cultural differences between one country and another.

It's never a dull day in a taxi in Panama City.

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About the Author:

Mona Sutherland graduated summa cum laude from UCLA in 2004 with a Bachelor of Arts in psychology. Currently, Mona is the Search Marketing Specialist for WSI Panama. Originally from the San Francisco Bay Area, Mona moved to the Republic of Panama to pursue certain entrepreneurial endeavors and is currently completing a MBA at the University of Lousiville.

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