Panamanarama

Panama City was big, busy and bewildering, especially the local buses, which we never quite mastered! At one point a couple of policemen took pity on our confused selves and personally escorted us to the right random street with no name!! There are nice parts to it, the Casco Viejo old town is very quaint and of course we had to go and check out the masssshuive ships crossing the Panama Canal (though unfortunately this looks NOTHING like it did in Team America!!). At one point we were casually looking at a river from a bridge when we noticed a six foot croc skulking around in the murky water- crikey! We now constantly have our eyes peeled for any more lurking crocs (and snakes for that matter!).

Headed into the highlands to Boquete, where it was wet wet wet. Beautiful jungle though, muchos mosquitoes being the downside and some fairly dramatic river crossings! Then to the archipelagos of Bocas del Toro. Awesome place, crystal clear water, big orange starfish everywhere, beautiful empty beaches and $1 beer - mmmmmm. Will attempt to make you jealous when we find somewhere we can upload photos!

The Panamanians are a friendly bunch and we have been getting no hassle whatsoever which is excellent! What little Spanish we learnt however doesn't seem to be understood too much, making travelling around all the more fun!

Next installment...................COSTA RRRRRICA!