Gamboa

Technology meets wilderness - the road from Panama City to Gamboa is mostly just a stone's throw from the Panama Canal as well as the Panama Canal Railway.
The canal is an enormously impressive engineering feat. There were two sets of locks I passed as well as the Gaillard Cut through the Continental Divide with another big bridge, the Centennial Bridge. (The apparent pyramid in the background of the picture below is the bridge suspended by cables.)

Some sections of the road through the rain forest with screaming monkeys created the impression of untouched wilderness...until the next oceangoing ship appeared around the corner.

Just south of Gamboa, there was an interesting bridge crossing; this one was interesting not because the bridge was huge, but because it was small and narrow,

The place I am staying at is quite a treat. I keep thinking it is like in the middle of the rain forest...but wait...it is in the rain forest,