 | Crazy loco crazy
2004-12-20, Puerto Armuelles, Panama. By: madjulios | | Holy guacamoly.
I´ve just been to the hospital for an injection to make my heat rash bugger off (not bad but simply a precautionary measure) and on the way back there was a car accident right besi... |
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| Heat and Work
2004-12-17, Puerto Armuelles, Panama. By: madjulios | | I can´t remember what i´ve already written. This is just a short one.
Starting to settle into a routine and get things worked out now.
We are allowed to drink once a week and shop once a week. T... |
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| Here I am
2004-12-12, Puerto Armuelles, Panama. By: madjulios | | HEY EVERYONE!!!!!!!!
Hola y buenos dias.
I almost don´t know what to say. It´s totally the most wierd experience ever. After three days of orientation at a ´country club´ motel sort of thing, I... |
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 | Sendero los Quetzales
2004-02-08, Chiriquí, Panama. By: chefortune | | I got a reasonably early start and a good breakfast, which I was happy to discover was included in the low price of the hostel. I got the chance to chat with the other inhabitant of the big dorm room,... |
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 | Meanwhile, back at the ranch
2004-02-07, Guadalupe, Panama. By: chefortune | | The hostel I had chosen from Lonely Planet for my overnight in Cerro Punta (to ensure an early rise for the Quetzales trail hike the following morning) had the cheery name of La Primavera (the Springt... |
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| Out of the heat, up to the highlands
2004-02-07, Chiriquí, Panama. By: chefortune | | Slightly north of David, on the way back towards the Costa Rican border along the Panamerican Highway, lies the small provincial town of Concepción, where I stopped in to pay a visit to a friend’s gra... |
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 | Coffee paradise in Chiriqui
2004-02-06, Boquete, Panama. By: chefortune | | Heading out of the extreme heat of David, the capital of Panama´s western province of Chiriquí, I hopped a yellow schoolbus to nearby Boquete, which lies in the middle of the Panamanian highlands, and... |
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 | Parks and pueblitos
2004-01-03, Panama City, Panama. By: chefortune | | Taking advantage of a break in the oppressive heat (around 40 degrees C and humid!), I headed for a hike in the Parque Natural Metropolitano, which is a 265-hectare park within the city limits. It is ... |
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| A pilgrimage of sorts
2004-01-02, Panama City, Panama. By: chefortune | | Today I set out on a sort of pilgrimage to quite a special place outside Panama City´s limits. On a lushly foliaged hilltop inland of the urban sprawl lies a large egg-shaped structure that is the Hou... |
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| New Years Day, the Panamanian Way
2004-01-01, Panama, Panama. By: chefortune | | Got off to a surprisingly early start, being that there was no bubbly or other alcoholic imbibement to impede my wits in the early morn. So I headed off in search of something nice to see in Panama Ci... |
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| Panamania
2003-12-31, Panama City, Panama. By: chefortune | | After a rapid return to Buenos Aires following a weeklong trip in the interior province of Mendoza, I bid farewell to my northbound family and hopped a plane to Panama, to continue my Southern Hemisph... |
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 | Quetzal....que?
2003-02-23, Guadalupe, Panama. By: stefnflo | | We left Carmen with teary
eyes the next day (23 Feb.), heading to Guadalupe, full of expectations
for some nice bird seeings for we were walking on the “Quetzal
Trail”... The landscape was amazi... |
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 | Kiss at the top
2003-02-20, Boquete, Panama. By: stefnflo | | We arrived in Boquete on February the 20th, just at the time when the
coffee was being harvested. The city was starting to fill up with
foreign and national tourists but we still managed to bump i... |
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 | Almost paradise
2003-02-17, Las Lajas, Panama. By: stefnflo | | We wanted to chill after all the trekking we did lately. Trekking in the jungle is realy addictive, we can't get enough of so much splendid nature around us with thousand different shades of green. Bu... |
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 | Plastic or snake?
2003-02-15, Santa Fe, Panama. By: stefnflo | | This place is again on a higher altitude, so it was cooler again as well. It's just a little village, but a lot of indians (mostly Guamis) live around the town, and on sunday they gather in town to bu... |
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 | Salt'n sugar
2003-02-14, Aguadulce, Panama. By: stefnflo | | This place is a hot and dusty place at the InterAmerican highway, which has it's income in salt and sugar. Outside the village we passed kilometers of salt-pans on our way to the beach. The beach was ... |
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| In the crater.
2003-02-12, El Valle, Panama. By: stefnflo | | After we had the guarantee that camera and books had savely arrived in Bocas del Toro, we left for El Valle. We took a little bus (like there were everywhere in Panama), which is pretty similar to the... |
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 | Big city...
2003-02-04, Panama City, Panama. By: stefnflo | | We went with our camera to the repairshop, where they told us the news that there had been a short-circuit when we used the flash (and we remembered it was the first time the flash went off, inside th... |
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| School's out!
2003-02-03, Bocas del Toro, Panama. By: stefnflo | | After a long period in Internet-free places, we are now back online ..
Before we wanted to make a move after our last lessons, we wanted to do see some more of Bocas del Toro.
We rented a bicycle... |
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 | It's a jungle aqui!
2003-01-30, Bocas del Toro, Panama. By: stefnflo | | We are feeling a bit like locals right know, having spent already three weeks on the same island in the only little town. We start to recognize everybody and vice versa. We have now a room at the main... |
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| Such a beautiful island...
2003-01-29, Bocas del Toro, Panama. By: stefnflo | | The landscape here is outstanding! it feels like we are part of a film! And even if we mostly chose to come here to learn Spanish, we can not deny the beauty of the place. Bocas del Toro is not a beau... |
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 | Chitras attack!
2003-01-16, Bocas del Toro, Panama. By: stefnflo | | ... In the evening, we went on the hunt for some new and better accomodation for we had been told that we could only keep our room 2 days. Fortunately, Ingrid, the owner of the Spanish school we had ... |
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 | Bocas del Toro is reached
2003-01-12, Bocas Del Toro, Panama. By: stefnflo | | We left Cahuita with the local bus, which took a long time because of all the potholes in the road. There was even a spot where a landslide had devastated a house, it was totally burried in mud.
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