Panama

Our last day in Costa Rica we spent hiking through the Monte Verde Cloud forest; it was absolutely beautiful. It was surprising how a short 30 minute bus drive took us to a location that was so completely different than the town we were staying in.

Cloud Forest

Panama City

From here we ventured into Panama, through another painful 2 hour border crossing. We spent a few days in Boquete where Nate’s friend owns a restaurant, Mike’s global grill. It was a cute, quiet town filled with old American retirees. We took a cab to some waterfalls we read about, which turned out being just a waterfall on the side of the road, and then we hiked back an hour to town. We found a dead snake on the side of the road, luckily it was dead because it was a really poisonous coral snake, which apparently are all over Panama. We stayed a little longer in Boquete in order to watch the Superbowl, and then we ventured to Panama city. We went to the impressive canal, strolled through old town, and went to the mall. Panama city is huge and under lots of construction, making it a little difficult to navigate. From here we took a bus to Porto Lindo, a tiny Caribbean town with nothing in it, but this is where we were going to meet up with our boat, the Amande, to sail the San Blas islands to Columbia!