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  • Mathilde SalmonPanama
    Day6

    En route pour Pedasi!

     March 15, 2017 in Panama ⋅ ☀️ 34 °C

    Ce matin, nous prenons la poudre d'escampette après avoir été pris en photo à Bodhi hostel.
    Nous attendons un minibus sur le bord de la route et grimpons dans le premier qui se dirige vers notre destination. A Penonome, nous sommes éjectés du véhicule. Nous prenons un second bus depuis une station service jusqu'à une ville dont je ne connais pas le nom.
    Nous arrivons à Las Tablas, au nord de Pedasi et arrivons enfin jusqu'à cette dernière ville vers 16h30. Notre ultime destination, Playa Pedao, se trouve à 1h30 de route mais les bus qui la desservent s'arrêtent vers 14h30. Les dames de notre bus nous proposent le taxi pour 15 dollars comme alternative, ce qui nous fait grincer des dents!
    Après avoir rendu visite à quelques hôtels hors de prix ou désertiques, nous nous mettons en tête de faire du stop.
    Quinze minutes plus tard, un canadien retraité, Ed. Kennedy, nous escorte jusqu'à l'entrée de sa maison en construction, qui se trouve à 8km de la plage.
    Nous remettons nos pouces en vedettes, et malgré le peu de passage, un gentil panaméenn s'arrête pour nous emmener jusqu'à notre destination.
    Cependant, le début de la plage est à 2km de l'hostel dans lequel nous souhaitons camper, appelé Eco Venao. Juste au moment où l'on prononce le nom de ce lieu, une fille de notre âge s'arrête avec son camion et nous demande si l'on se rend à Ecole Venao. Elle explique qu'elle repasse dans 5 min et qu'elle peut nous y emmener car c'est son lieu de travail.
    Nous l'attendons donc sagement le long de la route et arrivons comme des princesses dans ce lieu magique. Il s'agit de la jungle à deux pas de la plage. Le silence est de mise, les gens sont très accueillants, et le décors est sublimement authentique.
    Comme nous n'avons presque pas dépensé d'argent de toute la journée, nous nous autorisons le buffet du restaurant de l'hostel et partons nous coucher, repus.    Read more

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  • Mathilde SalmonPanama
    Day8

    Journée de rien

     March 17, 2017 in Panama ⋅ ⛅ 27 °C

    Ce matin et hier matin, notre réveil est rythmé par le cri des singes. Aujourd'hui, notre seule mission est de trouver de quoi se mettre sous la dent. Après avoir observé les singes à nouveau, nous partons vers 7h pour un petit footing matinal jusqu'au Mini Market qui coûte la peau des fesses.
    Une bonne vingtaine de minutes plus tard, nous revenons en nage avec un paquet de tortilla à 4dollars (ils ne vendaient pas de pain). J'aurais habituellement fait cette course de 20minutes les doigts dans le nez mais la région est relativement vallonnée ce qui donne du fil à retordre à nos petites fesses.
    Puis notre journée a consisté à ne rien faire.
    A côté de moi, dans le hamac voisin, Mia, la fille d'une colombienne en vacances, vient poser ses petites pommes nues apres avoir fait comprendre à maman, que la couche, c'est pas possible et que comme les singes, on est vachement mieux cul nu. Très Indépendante, mademoiselle boit son biberon à ma droite sans broncher et j'en profite pour capturer quelques images de ses petites mains et pieds caramels et potelés à souhait.
    Ce soir, nous sortons à Selena, un autre hostel au pied de la plage Venao qui organise des fêtes tout comme El Sitio (qui n'est pas un hostel mais juste un bar et restaurant branchouillé). Nous marchons sur le sable solide une bonne demi heure pour rejoindre le lieu prisé du soir après avoir fait un premier stop à La Barca, bar en forme de bateau qui appartient à notre hostel. Soirée sympa en compagnie des hollandaises, mais à force de me coucher avec les poules, je finis par faire un KO et je rentre me coucher dans notre tente préférée!...    Read more

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  • Cathleen BurghardtmEtIME
    Day97

    Playa Venao

     December 19, 2018 in Panama

    Off to the pacific coast to finally learn surfing!
    Playa Venao is THE spot and quickly i understand why :)
    The bay is really smooth and the waves perfect for beginners. I didn’t expect to stand on my first day!!!
    I had every day two lessons, one early in the morning, second one late afternoon.
    My highlight was the last session, I spend 3 hours in the water, first my lesson than hanging out with friends watching the sunset and the rising full moon at the same time. Unforgettable moment without a phone to take pictures, just laying on my surfboard, seeing the sky turning from blue to yellow to pink to...
    Who had thought that I would enjoy so many hours IN the water! (at last me 😜)    Read more

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  • About a girl who travelsLatinoamérica 2017
    Day144

    Playa Venao

     May 20, 2017 in Panama ⋅ ⛅ 15 °C

    To get from Santa Catalina to Playa Venao was even more complicated than getting to Santa Catalina. I had to take 5 different busses. The last one from Las Tablas to Playa Venao was only running once a day sometime around midday but no one could tell me when exactly. So I decided to take the first bus leaving Santa Catalina at 6 in the morning (which didn't show up before 6:30) to not miss my chance for that bus to Playa Venao. Wherever I had to change busses there was a direct bus going to Panama City. I really thought about just skipping Playa Venao and go straight to Panama City. Was Playa Venao really worth the hassle and the money I had to spend to get there? So far I still wasn't really impressed by Panama and thought maybe I should just get to Colombia where I knew I liked it.
    But I decided to give it one last chance and made my way to Eco Venao, a hostel Maren had recommended for me. Turned out it was the right decision!
    I had a really nice time there and met a lot of interesting people.
    Natascha is volunteering at Eco Venao. She had just finished her Bachelor in Interior Architecture at my University in Mainz and had so many nice ideas what to change at Eco Venao and we spend some time laying in the hammocks talking with some other girls about creative ideas for the hostel and other girly topics. I hope she's gonna stay motivated and will be able to implement some of her ideas.
    John is running the Venao coffee shop and roastery at the Entrance to Eco Venao. I spend quite some time listening to him talking about coffee and it felt great meeting someone being so passionate about what he is doing.
    Both of them helped me a little on figuring out what I wanna do when I get back. Even though I really enjoy my time traveling of course this is always in the back of my head and talking to the two of them made me realize I wanna keep on doing what I did. I've always been passionate about my job and I think I'm not ready to give that up for a boring job. Even if it would mean more money and less hours.
    One night I went with John to Panga, a really nice restaurant at the end of the beach. It was probably the best food I had on my trip. They were also selling Johns coffee so when he told them who he was we got a free dessert which was absolutely delicious.
    When we walked back along the beach there were tons of fireflies. It was so beautiful. The ocean, the stars and the flushing fireflies everywhere around. The only thing that was disturbing was that we didn't see where we were walking and you always had to be afraid to step on one of the many crabs crashing it.
    I also had my most expensive surfboard rental in Playa Venao. I took a board for a full day which was already $20. When I tried getting out I figured the waves were quite strong and I had to let my board go quite often. And when I thought I finally made it out another big wave came and when I let my board go again the leash ripped. Luckily I could grab my board before it was pushed all the way back to the beach. But I had to take the next wave to get out of the water to get a new leash and that was another $35.
    I went in and out of the water for the rest of the day to make the most of my money but as the waves were actually to big for me I mostly stayed to the front catching some smaller once and playing around in the white water.
    One morning Natascha did a yoga class on the yoga deck at the beach which was really nice. After that I had to figure out where to go next. As I had booked my sail boat to Colombia by now I knew I would be in Panama City till May 28th. So going straight to the City would mean 5 nights there which felt quite a lot. But I also didn't really feel like staying another day in Venao. When I told a few girls I thought about taking the bus early the next morning to Panama City Leila said we could take the bus together then as she was raking that one to get of earlier to go to El Valle. I remembered Simon in Santa Catalina had told me about El Valle and highly recommended it. So I decided to join her.    Read more

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  • Sandra und Franco unnerwägsZentralamerika
    Day4

    Pedasi

     March 17, 2018 in Panama ⋅ ⛅ 24 °C

    Där erscht halt absits va hochu hischini und vill vercheer isch pedasi im südu va panama gsi. Äs isch än bekannti fischer-, und feriuregion ver panamaer und eu üsländer. Dˋfahrt het imä liduschaftlich dekoriärtu bus mit landestypischer müsig agfangu (jodel mit handorgla) und imä nit klimatisiärtu minibussji zwischu baru senioru gˋändut. Vor ort heiwer erfahru, dass da waale, thunfischä, schildchrotä und, und, und het... im öigschtu. Wiär si de trotzdem ver än tag uf dˋ“isla iguana“. Da heiwär zu ischer uberaschig unzähligi leguanä gseh. Sit de wissäwär was „iguana“ biditut.Read more

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