Colon Panama is a scary place. A place that you would not even consider walking around with your guard down or after dark. There are areas that are extremely unfriendly to outsiders. The poverty is apparent, the living conditions are terrible. Amidst all of this are the Buses of Colon. They jump out at you and provide color to an other wise dreary landscape. They are expressions of the creativity and the driver’s personality. They display graffiti as art. Walking around Colon I am escorted by a 250 pound taxi driver that seems to know everyone. I am paying him to watch my back as I try to capture the contrast between the depressing gritty feel of Colon living and the colorful upbeat buses.
As we leave Vatican City (in Colon) he decides to tell me that on the same basketball court I was taking pictures two people where killed the night before. Time to move on....
Check out the pictures by clicking on the "The Buses of Colon" to your left.
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