Villa Marina Retreat Pedasi

... my cameras and told Angie. Back up on deck (I swear I was only gone a couple minutes) and the dolphins are gone.

We decided to just stand on deck and enjoy the open ocean and the sound of the waves. Watching the birds riding the ships ‘air’ wake along with just the clear skies and calm waters of the Pacific, I actually think I may have had a ‘religious’ moment. A person can really start to understand the vastness of our ...

... cartina quando siamo partiti c'erano diversi aereoporti purtroppo nella realtà erano tutti in via di rifacimento, visto il forte sviluppo che sta vivendo questa zona e quindi ci toccavano in ogni spostamento ore di macchina.
Comunque il bello di viaggiare in macchina è che puoi goderti ogni scorcio che un viaggioi ti puo regalare e quindi in fondo non ci siamo lamentati.
Il giorno dopo abbiamo di dirigerci a playa venao , e poi a playa el toro. Devo ammettere che entrambi sono ...

Arriviamo a Pedasí,

La mattina dopo, pieni di energia decidiamo di percorrere a piedi i 5 chilometri
necessari per arrivare a Playa El Toro: spiaggia selvaggia, ottima per
pescare e praticare surf; peccato che noi di surf non ne sappiamo
niente e ci limitiamo a giocare con le onde.
La sera decidiamo di
avventurarci verso Isla Cañas, un’isoletta ...

On the morning of our last full day in Panama we had breakfast with Achotines lab neighbor, and famous landscape architect, author, and conservation advocate Edwina von Gal. She bought some land several years ago next to the Achotines Lab and immediately started working with the Lab staff (who were beginning some forest restoration projects of their own) to restore parts of her land. Over time she got to know ...

... that his fellow ranchers are using. Time will tell. As we toured the ranch and the nearby community we saw parrots in the trees along fence lines and a troop of howler monkeys in a small clump of trees along a nearby river. It is amazing how small patches of forest can harbor a lot of wildlife-at least those species that do not require huge chunks of forest or migration routes between different types of habitat. One of the ...

... here and we´ve been dancing a lot. All in all, my time here has proven to be a good experience in dealing with frustration. I´ve realized I have a big problem with impatience... I want to speak spanish really well and learn to spin around like a pro on the dance floor all within a few weeks. Obviously not gonna happen. And recently, I´ve begun thinking a lot in spanish, so now not only do I have problems with communication, I can´t ...

... we saw in Southe Africa last year, but they run a close second. There are amazing colors, brown birds with yellow breasts are the most common, but there are turquoise birds, magnificent blues etc. En valle has an area where people go to rub mud on themselves and also hot springs. The mud is black like the Dead Sea and is supposed to help arthritis. villages etc. Much of Panama has jungle right beside civilization. The trees ...

... it harder to use the words than to know them; I know a lot more words than I'm comfortable using and I'm not sure why. It's not as simple as just not wanting to be wrong, I don't think. Usually I'm pretty sure of what I need to say and just don't say it. I sort of feel like I'm stepping into someone else's world by speaking their language, a world that I can't be sure if I have any business being in at all. I feel even more like an imposter speaking bad Spanish than I do not ...

... guide, hoping to find a nesting turtle but as it wasn't really the season so had no luck. One child did though, I met him with his bag full of ping-pong size eggs...more work to do there then! From there I hitched back to civilisation then took a couple of local buses with their salsa on full blast as normal back to Panama City for my last night on mainland America.

... them there 5 days already?" The allure and the magic of this city is in the people and the slow and peaceful nature of the whole area. People make an effort to say hello to you, even if they don't know you. They gladly help you out, and even lead you to places if you can't find it on your own. This region of the country has definitely won my heart. It is definitely our favorite by far, at this juncture. Everything we have encountered so far has been ...