And no, Celine, not to Taco Bell. But the first thing I and my fellow English school friends did once we crossed the boarder was hit up the McDonalds in "City Mall"! They use real grease here and the Coke has real sugar. Mmmmmm...
You may have heard me talk of the boarder between Costa Rica and Panama before, but it's this crazy ass place! You check out of Costa Rica and physically walk .25 of a mile in filth and taxis and semi trucks in direction of Panama. There is no signage, no sidewalks, nothing to indicate what you are supposed to do! Thankfully collectively we have done this enough that we are experts. We know where to go, what to say, what fake documents to carry and who to talk to. It's still a bit of a frogger game walking through all the traffic and garbage in the heat.
We were headed for Santa Catalina in Panama, then on the bus to the boarder we decided to stay our first night in Boquete, Panama. Once there we decided to stay our 4 day there as none of us wanted to get back on the bus. So here we were in a colder mountain town with our beach clothes! Thankfully we all know how cold the Panama buses are so we had one little sweater each.
We ate, drank, danced like crazy people and generally had a great time. We also got cheap pedicures, rode some horses and hit up the hot springs.
Yesterday we ended up at a nice pool in Golfito after crossing back over the boarder. Photos to follow!!
ps. The reason for the boarder one is two fold, one we had a 4 day weekend off from school and we all needed to update our visas! The Costa Rican tourist visa is for 3 months, but you simply leave the country for 72 hours and viola! you get another 3 month tourist visa!
Love to all!
xo!!
and here i thought you were making a run for a cute new roommate boArder instead of the line between countries border. i miss your typos!
ReplyDeletehahaha! well, i guess i won't correct myself now! it's funny that i was thinking there were only 2 boarders, borders. i knew it wasn't the I'm bored kind! Damn English.
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