As you may have read and yawned through yesterday, we left Panama City on Monday and took a really long bus ride to Boquete. It is absolutely beautiful here. The town is at about 3,600 feet up in the mountains and is nestled in a valley. It is much cooler here and the views are wonderful. Unfortuantely, Ive been taking most of my pictures with my phone and I can´t get those onto the computer. Now that I know this won´t work, I´ll comandeer the real camera back from the children so that we get good photos and not more like this.
We are very pleased with our hostel here. It is the most beautiful we have ever stayed in. Our rooms have a hot shower and a TV that works so the kids are happy. There is a kitchen here so we were able to buy and cook some vegetables, which was really nice to have after so much chicken and rice. The hostel is next to a small river and we can hear it out our window at night.
We spent yesterday taking it easy. We walked to a beautiful garden that supposedly had at least one of every type of plant in Panama. I don´t really doubt it because the place was huge. I only have one good picture because the kids spent most of the time making videos of themselves running through the gardens like crazed animals. I´m sure Tate will post them on youtube.
Cora, however, saw it as an opportunity to be herself and had many people wondering about the crazy little gringa.
The afternoon and evening was spent lazing around the hostel, getting some homework done with Cora, and talking to other backpackers staying here. We met a couple from the Isle of Man, an Australian, an Englishwoman, a guy from California and a woman from San Francisco. They are all doing long term travel and have been in Central American anywhere from 3 months to 9 months. Many of us have been to the same places or are going to the place someone else has been so we spent the evening drinking the local beer, swapping stories, and giving advice. We all went out to dinner (the kids were very happy to stay at the hostel and eat popcorn while watching movies) and had huge plates of the cominda typica (local food) for $3.50 each.
We are very pleased with our hostel here. It is the most beautiful we have ever stayed in. Our rooms have a hot shower and a TV that works so the kids are happy. There is a kitchen here so we were able to buy and cook some vegetables, which was really nice to have after so much chicken and rice. The hostel is next to a small river and we can hear it out our window at night.
We spent yesterday taking it easy. We walked to a beautiful garden that supposedly had at least one of every type of plant in Panama. I don´t really doubt it because the place was huge. I only have one good picture because the kids spent most of the time making videos of themselves running through the gardens like crazed animals. I´m sure Tate will post them on youtube.
There were many parts to this garden and we were there for at least an hour. Some people didn´t appreciate that.
Cora, however, saw it as an opportunity to be herself and had many people wondering about the crazy little gringa.
The afternoon and evening was spent lazing around the hostel, getting some homework done with Cora, and talking to other backpackers staying here. We met a couple from the Isle of Man, an Australian, an Englishwoman, a guy from California and a woman from San Francisco. They are all doing long term travel and have been in Central American anywhere from 3 months to 9 months. Many of us have been to the same places or are going to the place someone else has been so we spent the evening drinking the local beer, swapping stories, and giving advice. We all went out to dinner (the kids were very happy to stay at the hostel and eat popcorn while watching movies) and had huge plates of the cominda typica (local food) for $3.50 each.
This is why we love backpacker travel and staying in hostels. We meet so many interesting people from different countries and learn from them.You can see beautiful beaches from any all-inclusive resort, but can you find out that there are only 80,000 people on the Isle of Man, they have their own money and parliament, and that it is legal there to shoot a Scotsman with a crossbow if he is on the beach and it´s before dawn?
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