Taboga, nicknamed "The Island of Flowers" is a gorgeous island 12 miles of the coast of Panama City. It's an hour-long ferry ride from the city, in which you get a very impressive view of ships lining up, waiting to load into the canal. We took the ferry over the morning of July 3, and spent a wonderful day exploring the island and swimming at the beach. You can't go in the water on BCI due to crocodiles- it was fantastic to finally be able to go swimming! Taboga is a perfect little tropical island- flowers everywhere, beautiful beaches and palm trees, brightly colored houses, lots of great little seafood restaurants. The beach was beautiful, and there were pelicans everywhere! (One attacked us on our second day. Two people had to lure it away from our bags, while someone else went in and grabbed them).
We stayed at a wonderful bed and breakfast called Cerrito Tropical. We had a big enough group of interns that we rented the entire place- lovely rooms, my first time sleeping in air conditioning since May, and a back porch with a fantastic view of the water!
The morning of July 4, we hiked to the top of the highest mountain on the island (1200 feet, which feels like quite a bit when you're doing it in an hour in tropical heat). The view was absolutely incredible- we had a fantastic view of the entire island, ships waiting to enter the canal, the surrounding islands, and Panama City in the distance. We hiked up through the jungle, but took a winding dirt road down. At one point, we turned a corner to find a herd of cows wandering down the road. Definitely a fantastic trip!
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