Farallon
Travel Blogs from Farallon, Panama
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Fuerte Amador
After the excitement of yesterday, we roamed around the port city, the site of an old fort--Amador--close to Panama City. We are only 9 degrees above the equator, so as you can well imagine, it is very warm here. It is cool at night luckily--but the ...
Day 32: Embera Drua
... most of their population actually lives and stays somewhere else. They have a few young people studying at the university in Panama City, and sometimes people leave the community for various reasons, including one man who married an American. We drove ...
Day 33: The Cloud Forest. Sort of.
... up with some garlic chicken thing that was REALLY good. It had those plantain chips things with it of course because everything in Panama has plantain things with it, and it had rice and beans and I ordered juice but it didn't come until everyone had ...
Gravol the Pill- Meet Gravel the Road
So for those of you who are unaware, there is a celebration vastly accepted through out Panama and majority of South & Central America called "Carnival". While it might seem all in good fun, like many Holidays it is steeped quite heavily in false ...
Um.. is this a Kingdom Hall?
After an excruciating day in the ministry, it would have been nice to sleep in and take a break right? Wrong. It is Sunday and even here in a place where there is no running water & no electricity, there is still a Kingdom Hall of ...
Noé- He walked with God
Off to El Copé again for the monthly study with the three deaf women living there. I was happy to see all three of them waiting eagerly for us to arrive, as we made it through the thick jungle path. Just like the first time, Geovanny opened with prayer, ...
Service just isn´t service without a Machete
After the horrific trip from the previous day, we arrived after it was already dark and didn´t get to see jut how incredible Beretta is until the morning light of the following day. What a way to wake up! I expected it to be nice, sure, but I ...
" Welcome to the Jungle, we´ve got fun and games"
Jungle service day again! This time we worked in a different area and we met up with the local brothers and sisters ( Who had to leave their houses at 6:30 am to make it down the mountain to make it to the meeting spot in time). The crazy part was we ...
Estudio Biblio Habbla Lenguja de Seña Panama
... the study. They start by watching a paragraph in the "You can be God´s Friend" DVD available in LSP ( Linguja de Seña Panama) and then ask very simple questions. For example, we were studying the chapter on the last days and the sisters would act out a ...
day of hell..
... over to the airport.. i changed my ticket and met bup with johnny, again.. we rented a car and went up the coast back to farallon. went couldnt find a place to stay, so we headed back to the highway and found hotel in anton. we went to dinner at ...
Dog Attack!
was up all night, and had a rough morning.. a few beers a water and a cold chevchi was my recipe for my all cure. was hung over, in a bad mood and couldnt be asked to get on a bus. so everyone stayed another night. we went swimming and decided to gather ...
lets get the hell out of here!
... people wear them every were. we decided to keep moving, we needed an ocean breeze to breathe so we looked at a map and picked a town. Farallon was on the beach and on the way to pana city. we took a dollar bus ride to the entrance of town, put our thumbs ...
Farallon, Cocle Province
August 1st Took a bus to Farallon, 20 minutes from Santa Clara went to a Resort DeCameron for two ...
What a fantastic day!
... we were in the canal – from 1pm to 9pm UK time. It was also extremely fortunate that the weather was sunny and warm. Panama has a reputation for being wet, but not today – no rain on our parade! We entered the canal at breakfast time and left ...
Zip Lines, Horses and Rocks
Fasha and I rented a car and drove from Panama City to El Valle, which is a tiny town in the crater of a dormant volcano. The ride through the Andes Mountains was breath taking. We stopped for food along the way at some of the most authentic food ...
CURVACEOUS BLONDE--AND BOLD FACE LIES
... a fishing village and its primary asset is a huge 600 room all-inclusive hotel, called Decameron, which stretches over a mile of Farallon’s gorgeous white beach. On the far western side of the village is a little beach café called Pipa’s ...
FRIGATE BIRDS GALORE
... day of sunny, tropical weather. It was awesome! When I first arrived on the beach this morning, local fisherman were working on Farallon Beach hauling in their massive fish net. Two lines stretched way out into the sea each attached to an end of a ...
To the beach we go....
Our hotel is on Playa Blanca in Farallon....it's gorgeous. White sand beach, and Noriega's old beach house just around the corner. What more can a girl ask for? My friends all made fun of me for being so excited about seeing a former dictator's summer ...
Royal Decameron: Mai Thais, Music, Men in Tights
... ; We arrived at the Albrook Terminal in Panama City around 5am on August 10th, and boarded another bus back to the small beach of Farallon, where the resort is located. After a 2 mile walk from the highway to the resort, we arrived at around 8:30am, not ...
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