Hotel Dos Rios Volcan

... drive! <br><br><br><br>Some of the places we've been are: Cuesta de Piedra, Volcan, Cerra<br>Punta, Guadalupe, Bambito, Rio Serrano (on the Costa Rica boarder) and<br>many other places that I can't remember. We zig zagged through and<br>around mountains and valleys, coffee plantations, strawberry fields,<br>produce farms, waterfalls, streams and rivers. We've driven in and out<br>of clouds that drift off the mountains and into the roads. We made a ...

... by jungle covered mountains. Approximately 80 percent of all the vegetables consumed in Panama are cultivated there - there are little patches of gardens everywhere you look, all the way up the steep surrounding mountain peaks. The air was crisp and cool and a very welcome reprieve from the sweltering heat we'd been enduring. <br><br>Not much happens in Cerro Punta, which was fine by us as Mom was recovering from a cold and I was fighting like hell not to get ...

... ended in a waterfall, pools, and the works. i say apparently because the trail semi-ended an hour or so in and we did eventually find a waterfall but no pools and definitely no trail that lead to "spectacular views"...all in all a nice little trek which got us tired enough to be in bed at 1030 ready for the epic day to come! <br><br>White water rafting, the sole ...

... after we watched a short demonstration on a small zip line from guides Jonathan and Eric. There was a short hike to the first tower, the first five lines were tests to make sure you were following instructions. At tower six you could get off at your own will if it's not your cup of tea or be asked to leave for not following instructions. Nobody had any problems and the fun began at tower six. The remaining zip lines were longer and faster and the views were ...

... but ended up sleeping very well in my private room with airco. The next day I went into town and had a quite different impression than I had on my last visit. Still hot as hell but no catcalls and people were friendly. I stocked up on fruit and salad makings at the market and headed back to the hostel to lounge by the pool - quite a bonus! The hostel is a bit funky but the rancho and pool make it all ...

Hello everyone! Becca here, my turn again! Well, we're just killing time in David, Panama waiting to get on a bus at midnight to Panama City (only 5.5 hours to go, wahay..) so I thought what better a time to write this thing out. Well, Mark finished the last blog with a cheeky note telling everyone to try to persuade me to go ziplining. I did go and I did enjoy it, thanks for the "encouragement" guys. But I am incredibly scared of heights so it was a pretty big ...

... even explain how awesome the coffee is here. It is like expresso but served in big cups and I have about 3 large ones a day at least. I cant get enough of the dark rich coffee and fear I am going to go through some kind of withdrawal from it when I leave. thank goodness I have the tea in England to help me forget about my true love affair with Panamanian coffee. I have posted pictures from the trail because I cant put into words how ...

So I meet up with Lucia at the David bus termal, where it is raining and with my right foot I step in an unavoidable and river-like stream of run-off water; thus, causing a feng-shui imbalance in the dryness level of my feet. But we make it safely to Lucia's mom's house (photo), where we are inundated by the slobber and muddy paws of the resident German Sheppard--who is probably bigger than Lucia (photo). We ...

... in Spanish) with many witicisms and showered us with cookies when we answered his questions correctly. It made a good 45 minutes go back rapidly, and probably made him some money (you'd be surprised at how many people got on that bus to go shopping for a gold necklace...). But after the jewelry guy left, in true Panamanian sytle, they cranked up the wild Panamanian music for the pleasure of all. Note it was only about 8 ...