La Comida Fantastica de Cerro Punta
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1. Licuado de Fresas (Muy Bueno!! Particulamente con los panqueques, many fresas died to make Karen happy!)
2. Batido de Guanaban o Zarzamora (Phil's choice - I obviously had no idea what I was ordering but it tasted damn good anyway)
3. Arroz con pollo y vegetales (that they kept leftovers of for us and had wrapped up for lunch during the walk the next day.)
4. Bistec Ajillada (which was fantastic also!)
By the way, we're still not sure what the Guanaban is - any thoughts, maybe custard apple?
From Cerro Punta we took a famous Panama walking trail through Parque Nacional Volcan Baru... the trail is known as Sendero Los Quetzales (the Quetzal being a locally famous bird). This was about 6-7 hours of walking through gorgeous forest, high country ridges and lower elevation cloud forests along river banks. We saw a complete lack of Quetzals however. About 3 seconds after stepping out of the forest, the heavens opened and we got pissed on from a great height. We were supposed to have only 3 km to the town of Boquete, this turned out to be 8km through drenching torrential monsoonal rains. And No, it wasnt because of the following sign (pictured below). By the way, we took neither of the suggested paths and found the right road!!
The two guys in the photo are Jose and Roberto (a Spaniard and a Panamanian travelling together) who we had good conversations with on two separate buses, on the way to Cerro Punta and on return from Boquete. Hola!
Sorry there aren't more photos of the region, we saw some great lookouts which were completely whited out... clouds as far as the eye could see, which was about 3 feet. Makes a forest kind of creepy too!
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