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Beach in Santa Catalina, Panama

Our last entry ended in Boquete, a village in the cool highlands of Panama. We decided in St. Catalina to dive again, once on the Pacific side. We went by boat to the nearby island of Coiba, wonderful, crystal clear Wasser.Die underwater world was totally different, so we saw one shark, (but only 2m Small), many Lobbes, starfish and turtles, and as always a heap of colorful fish .

A bay on the island of Coiba

These images I copied from the homepage of the dive center, but we saw this Animals actually

Santa Catalina was in the middle of nowhere ', then you can really only diving and surfing. In the small village there is no Internet, such as 3 restaurants and hotels. The village population entertained us, however, on Whit Monday with an Asterix & Obelix suitable Massenschlaegerei, which was instigated by a drunk man with a surprise attack with a bar stool on the back of the head of a rival family member, and soon both young and old was tearing including local police on.

beach on our dive trip to Coiba

Then we were to dive from the teacher and her husband, Santiago chauffeured, this occurred because I wanted to pay with my credit card bill to dive. In order to tap into the satellite network, they must always take the car on a hill, and only then is a booking possible. We have but did not work (no reception), and so accompanied them 2.5 hours to the bank, where we then took off the money and paid the bill. Heading another chicken came under the wheels, which somehow wandered aimlessly in the streets.

From Santiago we went to only 1.5 hours to get to El Valle, a village in the middle of an extinct volcano. We stayed here 2 nights and visited a zoo, but these were not very much. Animal welfare here seems to be an alien concept, so rabbits are housed in Gitterkaefigen bleed (even the floor is a wire mesh) on the paws, birds can sometimes opening their wings at all, because the cage is too narrow. But we also saw many different animals we have never seen as the gold frog.

gold frog Rana Dorada

Not Animal welfare: the right of the rabbits are his boys, wrapped in newspaper

sniff Mutual with a tapir

Our model: the sloth

Panama City, Casco Viejo

Then she went to Panama City, New York from Central America and gateway to the Panama Canal. was first inhabited we left our old colonial Casco Viejo built on, especially for the time of canal construction of the various engineers and managers.

Some buildings and a few boats in Casco Viejo



The quarter of a Aussichtshuegel


view of the old town to the skyline of Panama City

Panama Canal On Next day we had to get up early to catch the 07.15 clock train from Panama to Colon. The railway line was only 10 years ago back to life, and runs more or less parallel to the channel.
So we had our first impression of this huge, about 80 km long structure that the Caribbean and the Pacific Ocean to each other.

in the panorama wagon to Colon

The diesel locomotive of the Panama Railway Company

In the afternoon we visited the locks at Miraflores, where the ships reduced to a higher or lower level, or be lifted. Sorry, we did not see any really big ships. The greatest dimensions are 305m length and 35m width. This measurement is expressed as Panamax; adhere to the many boat manufacturers. But long, there are bigger ships, so the channel will be expanded in 2007 for about $ 8 billion, durchzuschleusen to the super large tanks.

• came the construction of canals around 28,000 people died, mostly from malaria and other tropical diseases
• The lowest forward price paid in 1937 a man who crossed the Channel swim. The price is always the useful volume, so he had to pay for his athletic body 37 cents.
• pay the big ships up to 250,000 U.S. $ Kanalgebuehr, but this is still cheaper than to ship untenrum
• The canal was opened on 15th August 1914, with the construction was started in 1881.

Unfortunately, only one model, this ship would be the channel for much too big

The 2-stage Miraflores lock in

course, we were still in the New Town, dotted with skyscrapers and the Manhattan New York is like. Really very impressive, very busy and loud.

look at Bella Vista, the new town of Panama

This flag is huge, costing $ 25,000 each month and must be replaced. Is something like the symbol of Panama.

here had we really homesick: In Rincon Suizo in Bünderfleisch, raclette and Schümli Pflümli
What is here more pronounced maintained as in Guatemala and tuned, are the Camionetas that glow in all colors, chrome, have four times the exhaust pipes, and sometimes a wandering Disco same. The proud owners make every effort to airbrush the most beautiful and largest Kuehlerfiguren to have. This competition is never an end, to the delight of the astonished people who look after the Camionetas smile.


Our time in Zentalamerika is complete. From Saturday to Sunday, we drove 17 hours bus back to San Jose in Costa Rica, to take a flight to Santa Domingo. The fare is about $ 200 lower cost Costa Rica from Panama. On Monday we met with Judith and her boyfriend Jonnie on the Dominican Republic, Bavaro. We will stay here at the Grand Palladium Palace Resort Spa & Casino *****, all inclusive, because Jonnie is Recepzion-chief and was able to film something for us. Dyes his cool, right? Not bad, after all the small and sometimes grubby hostel rooms. We will talk more about it in a few days, first because we really want to enjoy the luxury of time.
Long waiting times and unfriendly, surly customs officials at the Costa Rica

on the plane to Santa Domingo

Welcome to the Caribbean, the first impression from the airplane window

A few more pictures in the end, and until the next entry in a few days

Kristal Summers Follando Con Tres

From Costa Rica to Panama

look through the cloud forest in the fog reminds us to Switzerland ?

After our adventures in Monteverde, Costa Rica, we went by bus for two days after San Jose, capital of Costa Rica. Finally again a beautiful, almost western city, with park's museums and even stressed people! By chance we came to a demonstration of the fire, they set off loud sirens and flashing lights noticeable for a new hydrant law Gehaeule echoed all morning from all quarters of the city.

The entire left lane is only for fire-fighting vehicles from all eras since the need to fight fire.

the "Teatro National, an old building in the neoclassical style, visited we watched the magnificent Ballsaele in restorers in their delicate Stukkaturarbeiten over his shoulder, and could even attend a theater sample. Some impressions:

The whole day was spent in the metropolis. An old, white-bearded man we declared the national game, play a lot of people in the city. are played fine with a stick has a tennis ball that herunterruetteln by the impact of three different "cones" lying on the screws, without, to overturn the cone, if you take this at all. You play in pairs against each other, and of course had to Jeanette and I play a little "Maetschli. The cupped hand of the old man after our game we wrested back some "dinero" and we knew once again, the friendliness of the money will often be maintained. But we had it on all cases of fun, and fun for tourists, there are especially rare-Free!

Our greedy "friend" in action, selbsternanter champion

from the Parque Central of view, an important building but do not know everything, so it's important.

In other park, where hundreds of trusting petting pigeons are known

As European cities, art must be. Here is a sexy stripper-cow.

greeting went to non-baker, but Kaeser "Samuelito" Sami from V. W.

from San Juan into the bus to the Caribbean coast, a surfer-village called Puerto Viejo. Have played some Strandspaziergaenge and in the evening the live reggea band's in the small restaurant's and bars enjoyed. If you do not surf, there is not much walking to do and besides "soennele. For hiking, it was too hot to Soennele too, so we decided to cooler in Panama to find areas.

The beach of Puerto Viejo, picturesque but just too hot ......

Green Thumb: This coconut palm tree could not quite take root, so I transplanted them summarily.

leaf-cutting ants the removal of your feed's.

The border between Costa Rica and Panama is very rudimentary: exit, bridge over the river, entering the country. As always, no bureaucratic problems for two serious, honest Touri's who want to travel without contraband just into the next country. Our first destination was the island group "Boccas Del Toro, where we stayed on Bastimientos. Here all the houses standing on the shore on stilts directly over the ocean, which brought us back a few times getting bitten. A little gewohnheitsbeduerftig were the toilets and other sanitary facilities, all waste water and toilet paper is through open processes need to rinsed directly into the sea, pooh pooh pooh!

Niemand's In-country on the border of Costa Rica to Panama

A starfish in the shallow Ufergewaesser

An excursion into the nature reserve "Red Frog"

Otherwise, it was very quiet, once again, only read books and lazy, the heat is thanks. But then probably put some kind of a flood, the next morning it was pouring down with rain. In order not to go back in this rain, with the open ferry, we waited until the afternoon, before coming over Almirante to David. We spent the weekend, and have even more lazy. Even a TV, we have hired us, because reading was too exhausting! (The sweat drips then not in the book pages ...) will travel

Bastimientos on rainfall, time to ....


From David, we went further into the mountains, to Boquete. At last night's we have to again picking up slightly and cover us, even the trousers from the backpack rummage that have lain dormant somewhere in inaccessible corners. It is cold here! Finally, breathe and do what wiedermal. We explored a garden with many flowers, walked to the river to cool it went no more, and in view of the more common snakes proposed a reversal for your thought. Was it too.

The Garden "Mi it tu jardin jardin" above Boquete


Hibiskusbluete A huge, all the way to Jeanette's taste

Suddenly it disappears, only Reeds and maybe snakes ...


We have met here in Boquete a Swiss couple who had settled here. Peter, a Naturfuehrer Orchideenzuechter and took us seven hours to climb. Through the cloud forest we hiked to the summit, despite the 100% humidity is not really sweaty because it was quite cold up there. The forest is almost always in the fog and it rains almost daily. The trees are covered with moss and epiphytes, here are just 10% of all plants rooted om floor, everything else (epiphytes) growing on the trees without, but to tap directly. These include orchids, we have seen hundreds of them, but unfortunately did not blossom all. Peter showed us his collection, but the next day at his home, where we got to see still more different ways.


still fresh and lively in the morning at 7:00 am before the hike

In the humid cloud forest

We see thousands of plants, but not the tree ... .

And finally above: (2100m.uM) Peter, Oswaldo (Panamanians), Daniel (Bayer) and Jeanette. A short time later, the fog vanished, and we saw down down to the sea.


The Hut a man who lives here alone with his animals


Some orchids Images:

This flower is only about 2.5 mm in size! The plant is about 100 € in Europe traded


Peter in his garden. The small tufts on the tree are all orchids.


We're moving further south tomorrow to try again on the hot sea, maybe a few more dives, and then on to Panama City. We are not to South America, otherwise we can almost would have to rush. On 19 May, we will fly from San Jose to Santa Domingo, and will meet there with our friend Judith, who has until now kept our apartment in Switzerland. But before that there are certainly give a further update from us.

Hibiskusbluete
Passionsbluete

An old-timer in the green ....


smoke Healthy: This page will be here smoked by the Indians, no nicotine, no tar. Obs tastes good?

For our friends with Aquarium: cross-comparison with Costa Rica

an angel trumpet flower