PANAMA!

This past weekend, a group of us went to Panama for 3 days!! We left San Jose at 7am and took a 6 hour bus ride to the border. The border between Costa Rica and Panama is a wooden bridge and a lot of the planks were missing so you had to be careful where you were walking otherwise you could fall into the river below. Once we got through customs which was pretty relaxed (they didn't even check our bags), we got on another bus for 2 hours that brought us to the northern coast of Panama. From there we took a 1 hour water taxi ride to our hostel on an island off the coast of Panama called Bocas del Toro. This place was so remote, but the view was amazing! There were white sand beaches, palm trees, tiki huts jutting out into the water-pretty much what you see on a postcard. Absolutely gorgeous! I could have spent another week there! We went kayking, snorkeling which was really fun. You couldn't drink the water there so we had to go to the mainland and buy a lot to last us for 3 days. Thankfully, no one in our group got really sick. There was a ton of seafood to eat and ladies night was almost every other night on the island, which meant girls could drink for free...whooo! :) Overall, really fun trip, glad I got the chance to go!