Fortuna Road

We left Boquete after a quick and very informative coffee farm tour. I highly suggest it if you have 30 bucks to spend. It was very cool.

Our very funny and excellent guide Carlos.

Here is the coffee plant process shown in one Nobe Bugle hand. You see the coffee cherry turn into a new seedling in just 3 steps. How beautiful it that.


Look at all of that coffee!
After our tour Aris so graciously came back up to Boquete to drive us down to David so that we could grab our LAST bus of the trip up the Fortuna road. We bought lunch. Delicious wood roasted chicken, yucca, and plantanoes.

So Aris bought us ice cream. Nads had Pipa and coconut.

And I / she had passion fruit. Delicious and just the boost we needed for the road ahead.

The views were incredible and the ride wasn't so bad.

We stopped for the night at 'The Lost and Found' a hostel built pretty much in the middle of no where up on the side of a mountain. The views were beautiful and Nads loved their pet Kinkachoo, Rocky. We both decided though that we had unwittingly stumbled onto the Panamanian version of Alex Garland's The Beach . Some of the folks here were strange and had been there for waaaay too long. We realized that it was the kind of place that people go to to disappear.

Nadia and I in the hammocka while the rest of 'The Beach' crew chowed down on vegan pasta and salad. Notice we are still smiling. I didn't later that night when I was getting attacked by bed bugs. Disgusting!

The next morning we woke up early to catch the bus for the last leg of our trip back to Bocas.

We took a water taxi from Almirante to Colon and settled in at Sis and Nate's place. Up next... Nads catches a big fish.