After a 3 day cruise, Wren and I land in Panama. It's sweaty, wooey! We must travel from Colon to La Isla Grande, and we do so by catching a cheap cab (only $2!), to a retired and pimped up school bus, where we meet a couple who are traveling house-sitters!
We take a teeny boat the 8 minute ride across the water to La Isla Grande, where we will be for two nights.
We find a quaint place to stay, then move on to more important things... batidos (milkshakes)!
We explore a bit and find a cute restaurant with swings for chairs! I love it!
Though the island is called Grande, it is small enough for us to hike across. Though along the hike, we saw the Grande-est spider we've ever seen! Yowza!
Once safely on the other side, Wren puts his "deserted island" skills to use by opening us a coconut!
It was so delicious!
One of our surprisingly favorite things about the island (and as we noticed further into our trip) were the leaf-cutter ants. This is a poor photo, but the path you see there is actually made by them, going on for quite a while, many times we would follow the trail and not find the end.
Here's an online photo and some fun facts! These ants can carry up to 50 times their weight, they travel several hundred meters in search for the right leaves, the leaves they bring back to their nest is to fertilize a special fungus which is their food, their nests contain over 5 million ants and be the size of a small car! Neato!
Speaking of bugs, being that it was so hot, and our room's window screens were ripped, we were kinda devoured by mosquitos...
Regardless, the quaint, mellow island was a great start to our Panama experience, and we both agreed that we really like it here.
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