It's cold in Boquete, and very very beautiful. the sun shines during rainfall over the volcano, the wind blows hot and the weather changes by the minute. Bizarro weather - very difficult to dress for the day. Just a few miles down the road it is very hot and very dry - up here in the mountains, green and lush and cold. Today is Saturday and many of the idigenous people come in from the countryside where they still live very simple lives - some of them ...

Taxi to Puerto Viejo, minibus with 4 Danes and two Israilis to the border.....walk from Costa Rica across a very rickety bridge at Sixalo into Panama - no muss, no fuss....    It definitely was quicker and easier than our previous crossing at the much bigger crossing. We decided to splurge and do they minibus route - $30 bucks for the journey rather than bus it to the border and then bus it to Almirante. the rest of the gang were doing a few days trip to Boc...