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Panama City: great food, green modern city and domesticated raccoons (crazypeople.online)
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very green city, beautiful trees everywhere.

I just got to Panama City, Panama yesterday, buses are a flat $0.25 regardless of distance and the Metro is a flat $0.50 regardless of distance.

took the train for ~8 mi into town to get to my hotel for $0.50.

ate at a Korean BBQ buffet and saw a bunch of mapaches(raccoons) that apparently live along the Pacific Coast here.

with all the fashionable dress, performing arts theaters and bodegas around, it feels a lot like a casual New York City, moreso than any other central city I've been in abroad so far.

it has that "yeah, we're killing it" vibe.

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[–] [S] 5 points 1 year ago*

no long coati claws though, just little raccoon hands.

I also assumed they were a different species since they're so thin, but so far everybody I've talked to says they are mapaches, raccoons, and I can't find any other species online that looks more like these animals than raccoons.

as far as the locals and search engines say, these are sleek Panamanian raccoons.

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