Here we are looking back down the point of the Casco from the very tip. You can see the modern City in the lower right. The white building with blue awnings is the French Embassy, and the chicken-topped obelisk and some plaques located along the wall were erected by the French to commemorate their failed attempt at building a sea-level canal. This effort cost about 22,000 lives lost to Malaria& Yellow Fever.

Street peddlers here are selling Molas and other cultural art from the Kuna Indians from the Kuna Yala district over on the Atlantic coast south-east of Portobelo. The women make the Mola by finely stitching together several layers of finely-dyed cloth in brightly-colored natural and geometric patterns. These peddlers did not accost us like in many other third-world countries where the din can be deafening. This was a polite request to purchase their wares.

A lovely area and quite safe during the day to walk around, and I understand quite the 'make-out' place at night.