Panama Rafters Boquete

After arriving in Boquete, we found our hostel (Mamallena hostel) quickly by selecting the closest place we saw. Luckily, we chose an awesome place. It is definitely not great for practicing spanish, since majority of people here that we've seen so far are white and everyone with out a doubt speaks english---but it's really relaxed, has big rooms, …

So we left Panama City on a bus for David at around 10am. We thought we would have to spend the night in David and catch a bus to Boquete the next morning, but everything worked out better than expected and we got to Boquete just as it was getting dark.

The first day we got up early for breakfast and coffee. A dog came up to our table and …

We took a bus from panama city to david which was a really nice bus that had the temperature right, very rare for those of you who know about buses. Then we got on a converted school bus to boquete. The first hostel we saw was mamallenas so we stayed here. It is really nice although pretty much all english speakers stay here. The first day in …

... black bread! Finally got together enough people to do the Jaguar, Grade 4, stretch of the Chiriqui Viejo River - need to go with Panama Rafters as they are the only ones doing this upper stretch. Because of dam construction, there's a 1/2 hour hike to ...

... nervous as it is a grade 3 -4 (grades go from 1 to 5, with 5 being deadly). Fortunately me and Cat are natural rafters and display all the abilities expected of river folk, Reading is on the river Thames after all. Its lively stuff with just under 4 ...

... 't met many other townspeople). We spent the day today going whitewater rafting on the Chiriqui Viejo River with a company called Panama Rafters. It was well worth the money we spent on it, about 60 bucks a person. Katherine fell out of the ...