Entries from 'panama'

Day 230

Cuba might have the Yank Tanks, but Panama has the Red Devils. These public busses in Panama are individually owned and operated so the drivers compete for customers by pimping out their american style school busses with chrome, mags, paint jobs, graphics, lights, strobes, sound systems, horns, stickers and anything else they can think of….

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Day 229

A day of stubby cats, leaf cutter ants, square trees, butterflies, squirrels, hummingbirds, red devils, helpful locals, failed waterfall excursions and two cheeky talking parrots named Deedee and Coco all nestled neatly inside a volcano. Back to the big smoke tomorrow 🙁

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Day 228

Today I explored the north western corner of El Valle on foot. I walked out to the El Macho waterfall, then made my way to a trail which winds up the side of the volcano following a winding river and past some Petroglyphs carved into the stone. After the second set of Petroglyphs I continued…

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Day 227

Today we arrived into El Valle de Antón (Antón Valley) about 2.5 hours outside of Panama City which is a small town nestled inside an inactive volcano (apparently the only one in the world?). We decided to come out here for 3 nights to get away from cities for a while and jumped on a…

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Day 225

Stuff and Things!! Today we had a sort of reverse culture shock in the metropolis of Panama. As you can see this city could not be any more of a stark contrast to every city I have explored in Cuba over the past 40 days. When we entered a shop we were blown away by…

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