Panama Pais - "La ruta por descubrir" (the path less traveled)
So After Ric dropped me off at the Purple house, I headed to Boquete, a small town up in the mountains with a very comfortable atmosphere and temperature (the most comfortable temperature and humidity I have felt so far). Here I spent a couple days hanging out and talking with fellow travelers. I then went on a hike for a few hours to some shabby waterfalls.
The next day I went on the most intense hike of my life (and trust me I have done alot of hiking). The hike started at 11:00 at 1700 meters up Volcan Baru (a 3478 meter volcano that has been dormant for 500 years). I met a team of biologists with a film crew on the way up who were studying the local parasitic fungi. I talked with them briefly over a snack and headed out past them. My backpack weighed around 40 lbs and I was getting very tired from climbing the unrelenting steep 4x4 road. I wound up having to stop briefly every 50 meters or so. I reached a campground 1km down from the top at 7:00 PM and passed out as soon as I could. It was quite cold up there, around 35 degrees ands I didnt sleep too well. I got up for the sunrise, took some pictures, talked to some Panamanians who had camped out on the top and headed down the other side. The trail down was beautiful and went through jungle and bamboo for quite a ways, but it was super steep the whole way down except for one 300 meter stretch of unwelcomed uphill climbing. It took me four hours to get down the other side since I was going pretty quickly and then I had to follow a road for a few more km to the nearby town of Bambito. My knees have never know so much pain! I then took a bus back to boquete because i couldnt handle the hike back around the volcano to Boquete. I met a couple from California and they ended up doing the volcano hike as well.
I left Boquete and headed back to David where I stayed for one night and then headed to the Carribbean Island chain of Bocas Del Toro (Mouth of the Bull) where I met the couple from California. We met more travelers there and we all toured around the islands together. The Islands are very beautiful and we had a great time minus the mosquitos, sand flies and sunburns. We took a tour of the islands for $15 a piece and got to see dolphins, snorkel and go to the mnost beautiful beach I have ever seen; Playa Rana Rojo (or Red Frog Beach) which has red poison dart frogs. I spent four days there in Bocas before heading out to David for another night and then to Panama City to meet up with some people from the states. One of those people, Bob, was my boss at a restaraunt I worked at in Texas with my sister and brother-in-law. The other person is a man named Terry who owns property on the island of Taboga. Terry is a friend of Bob and I met him at the restaraunt as well.
I am in Panama City right now, and planning to go see the zoo and the panama canal as well as seek out beeswax so that i can start dreadlocking my hair since it is driving me nuts and I dont want to shave it off just yet.
The next day I went on the most intense hike of my life (and trust me I have done alot of hiking). The hike started at 11:00 at 1700 meters up Volcan Baru (a 3478 meter volcano that has been dormant for 500 years). I met a team of biologists with a film crew on the way up who were studying the local parasitic fungi. I talked with them briefly over a snack and headed out past them. My backpack weighed around 40 lbs and I was getting very tired from climbing the unrelenting steep 4x4 road. I wound up having to stop briefly every 50 meters or so. I reached a campground 1km down from the top at 7:00 PM and passed out as soon as I could. It was quite cold up there, around 35 degrees ands I didnt sleep too well. I got up for the sunrise, took some pictures, talked to some Panamanians who had camped out on the top and headed down the other side. The trail down was beautiful and went through jungle and bamboo for quite a ways, but it was super steep the whole way down except for one 300 meter stretch of unwelcomed uphill climbing. It took me four hours to get down the other side since I was going pretty quickly and then I had to follow a road for a few more km to the nearby town of Bambito. My knees have never know so much pain! I then took a bus back to boquete because i couldnt handle the hike back around the volcano to Boquete. I met a couple from California and they ended up doing the volcano hike as well.
I left Boquete and headed back to David where I stayed for one night and then headed to the Carribbean Island chain of Bocas Del Toro (Mouth of the Bull) where I met the couple from California. We met more travelers there and we all toured around the islands together. The Islands are very beautiful and we had a great time minus the mosquitos, sand flies and sunburns. We took a tour of the islands for $15 a piece and got to see dolphins, snorkel and go to the mnost beautiful beach I have ever seen; Playa Rana Rojo (or Red Frog Beach) which has red poison dart frogs. I spent four days there in Bocas before heading out to David for another night and then to Panama City to meet up with some people from the states. One of those people, Bob, was my boss at a restaraunt I worked at in Texas with my sister and brother-in-law. The other person is a man named Terry who owns property on the island of Taboga. Terry is a friend of Bob and I met him at the restaraunt as well.
I am in Panama City right now, and planning to go see the zoo and the panama canal as well as seek out beeswax so that i can start dreadlocking my hair since it is driving me nuts and I dont want to shave it off just yet.
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