dias de los buses

1. First bus we took from El Valle down the mountain to the Panamerican highway. We caught it after waiting for only a minute and we got to sit next to each other and it was super easy and fast.
   
2. Second bus we took after waiting for over an hour next to the highway. This bus traveled an hour or so to Penonome, which is in the middle of the country. We met a nice American girl named Julie who ended up being our translator for most of our transport.
   
3. Third bus went from Penonome to Santiago. On this bus we met a Belgium family. This bus also left from an actual bus station and we got to eat and I got to pee for the first time.
   
4. Our fourth bus went to David, which is the major city on the left side of the country. This bus was real bus sized and had reclining seats that reclined as much as airplane seats. (Read: not much.) This bus was three hours long. At this point both of us had reached bus saturation.
5. Our fifth bus went from David to Guanaca. It was short and sweet.
6. Finally, we took a "taxi" (which was really a car owned by this guy Romero) up the mountain until the base of Lost and Found hostel. It is located in the La Fortuna rain forest. It is not on the map but it was about a third of the way between David and Almirante at the top of a mountain. The ride up the mountain took us into cloud forest territory and there were parts of the road that were so shrouded in fog that you couldn´t seen more than fifteen feet ahead.
   
7. After being dropped off, we hiked up the Lost and Found trail in the pitch black. Luckily we had a head lamp and a flashlight. At one point we took a wrong turn and found ourselves in front of a creepy abandoned barn. After turning back, the real hike took about fifteen minutes more in the pitch black and then we FINALLY REACHED LOST AND FOUND HOSTEL!!!!!!!!
   

If you look at my Panama map, you will be able to trace this route. Then you can see in person how far we traveled and how incredibly boring it must have been.