Bambu Hostel David
Calle Virgincita, San Mateo neighborhood David, Panama
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Ever-changing plans
I am still not in Bocas del Toro. The trip from Santa Catalina is long, involves 4 buses, and reaching David with Alana and Ben who I met on the bus, we decided to stay put for the night and head to Bocas in the morning.
Would it surprise anyone to find out that didn't happen? A …
First Night Out
From Chitre, we hopped on another bus and made our way to David. David is the primary city used to travel from Panama to Costa Rica. The bus ride was by far the most luxurious yet. We rode on a brand new double decker bus fully equipped with tvs. They played some ******** drama movie about airplanes that the other passengers really got in to. As we …
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"Welcome to the Jungle"
... minute hike, straight uphill. So we started. We made the muddy, rocky, jungly hike, sweating and cursing the whole way, and found our next clue in a tree. It sent us to the river...and that's where it became less a game, and more of a "we're doing this whether we like it or not." The clues sent us up and around the river, on a path so narrow, rocky, and steep, that I went from not wanting to get my hands filthy, to not wanting to get my clothes muddy, to ...
Boquete - Rain, rain, rain!
... painful! :-) At least it's been a good excuse to self-medicate by trying a couple of the local beers (which for the record, taste exactly the same).
Heading for Costa Rica in the morning, so let's hope for an incident-free land border crossing, for that next stamp in the passport!
Kxx
PS. If anyone has a tip for the Melbourne Cup tomorrow I'd love to know about it. Ideally BEFORE the race ... ;-)
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All good things must come to an end...!
... over there called 'Mondo Taitu. Caught a bus to the other side of the island to go to a beach know as Starfish bay. This was really nice and there were dozens of starfish that choose to live very close to the beach, giving it its nickname. Laying on the sand however was unbearable due to the ****** little sand flies and their irritating bite.
27/08/11
Got a group together and payed a local guy called Andreas 20 bucks to take us ...


