Having recovered from last nights antics, we were woken up today with seans maple syrup pancakes, ready to seize the day at the beach! Only the problem was that a giant raincloud seemed to be heading in our direction! Nonetheless, being the tourists that we are, we decided to head out in search of some food and then hit the beach. Possibly the biggest error we could have made to date. A foot out the door and the monsoon began. None of this crappy drizzle we get ...

The recommended hostel was Mondo Taitu, but in all honesty, when we got there it looked abit like what one would call...a skip? Literally it was like a pile of wood all nailed together into a form of a shack. So we decided to have a browse around town incase anything better popped up. Thankfully, we found a 6 bed dorm just down the road in hotel brisas. When checking in however, we were upgraded (once again!!!!) to the 6 person apartment with a balcony straight o...

The coach ride was long and bumpy, and general road traffic laws don't seem to abide here. We overtook 6 cars at once drove over cliff bridges at 85mph and all this with no road lights. It was quite comfortable though ( as long as u didn't look outside), and there were no chickens running up and down the isle as we were originally expecting! We arrived at Almirante port, where we waiting for the sun to rise and to catch a water taxi over to the bocas islands. Le...

So we decide to leave the Panama Canal and head back to the hostel, in 2 cabs this time, as a second run in with the police was not really on our agenda. So it was me, Sean and Layla in one cab, and Jess, Suraj and Nomes in the other. All the taxis here are rackety old things, and so it does take a while to start them up. Nonetheless we were off, competing to see which taxi would reach the hostel first. Our cab driver decided to take us down the 'scenic route', t...

First day in panama, and first day we venture out as the 'Sensational 6' ( yes, were still thinking of a name, back jn BA we were the 4OD- 4 original dentists, courtesy of Suraj patels brain). So we wake to hear nomes nightmare from the night before: the dream was apparently that Dobby woke up in the middle of the night and decided to touch us all creepily. All I cn say if it did actually happen, then it's character building, LOL. Then it was off to the bus stat...