Well I have safely arrived in the United States. My flight got in saturday where my family tearfully greeted me, then we headed straight to my cousin's graduation party. We spent the last week of our travels in Panama. I was really excited to go to Panama, excited to experience a new culture and learn some of the history of Panama. I had written a paper on the Panama canal a couple years ago, so I was excited to see the canal.
Our first stop in Panama was Bocas del Torro. We left from Osa at 3:30 am and after six different bus rides and one boat ride we arrived in Bocas at 8 pm. We decided to take public buses because its more of an experience, especially getting through the border- which was interesting but another opportunity to practice my spanish.
Once we arrived in Bocas we went from hostel to hostel looking for a cheap place to crash. The hostel we finally found was perfect, where we stayed all of our nights in Bocas. It was owned by a German woman, and had a lot of travelers staying there. In Bocas we also met up with two girls from our program and a brother and boyfriend of one of the girls.
Bocas del Torro is a bunch of small beautiful islands in the Caribbean where you can basically go island hopping. There are alot of opportunities to swim, snorkel, kayak, sail ect. We basically just chilled, went to a couple beautiful beaches. The last day we were there we took tour where we were able to see alot of the islands. We first went to this area where there were dolphins swimming all over, jumping in the water- it was really cool. We then went to another island with grass huts and swam, and then we went to another island where we went snorkeling. The snorkeling here wasn't as good as in Honduras but it was pretty cool. There were a ton of cool fish and I saw a crab the size of a soccer ball, I also got to see a Jesus lizard again. After snorkeling we went to three more islands where we swam, and chilled on the beach.
After Bocas we went to David, a random town we stopped at to check out life in a non touristy area. I gotta go to work- I'll write more about my travels later!!
peace~