WE HAVE TO GO BACK - VAN LIFE IN PANAMA
so last night we stayed here just nice little park a little free camp spot if you will as you probably know by now our other one failed but we're gonna head over to the waterfalls here in a little bit and re-examine just exactly what happened obviously we made some mistakes throughout the whole entire process we were extremely stressed you can probably see that from the video but we have looked at the video and kind of figured out what we should do better next time and but we're gonna go look at this and see yeah how bad it really was so she sees the chicken the chicken sees him he's not interested i think the chicken might be more interested in g than he is in the chicken oh the chicken's gonna get g here comes another one another chicken oh i frequently say it's better to be lucky than good but the city manager lives right there her name's beatrice and she said we can fill up the water over here at this municipal building it's patable and we can use as much as we like and so the people here have been very cool and very nice this little city is pretty charming after we had our near disaster but i'm going to fill up with water before we go check out this waterfall we're headed back down to the uh the waterfall the scene of the traumatic event yesterday afternoon or evening and uh now that we look at it it looks like this town definitely does its best to deal with all the water when those flash floods come there's drainage stitches on both sides but you can definitely see stuff up on the road and um we see some city officials driving around checking out probably making sure everything's okay but this is just the road to the waterfall let's get down there and see what the waterfall itself looks like this ditch right here as we were back and out of here this area was completely covered with water now the road only had about an inch of water on it but the ditch was full of water and so we couldn't see that box cover it looked like we were just backing up on the road and somewhere in there i dropped the left tire into that hole and we rocked and fortunately we rocked the two wheels fortunately we were able to get up out of there but that's where we dropped off into i don't see any marks on the asphalt where we kind of drop back into but it's pretty deep hole that tree right there we definitely hit with the van but it rained last night we got no leaks so we didn't do anything to the van and it doesn't look like we hurt the tree that bad but this is the road guys last night that was just a solid river when we were backing out of it it was incredibly scary now i'm going to turn around yes we're going to turn around so we can drive out i could have easily backed right in there and came straight up but we couldn't see it we just couldn't see it it was just a solid river yeah oh there's a jeep down here now it's back to normal guys a peaceful beautiful waterfall that we would have loved to have slept by last night and woke up too with the sunrise this morning but it wasn't in the cards glad we're able to get back down here and show it to you guys the cool thing is there's a road where we can drive down and show it to you from the bottom too so this is just the tippy top it's supposed to be a really magnificent waterfall so we're excited to show you the whole thing and look at this valley this place is breathtaking so we're headed down to the bottom of the waterfall we've seen it pretty good from the top of course yesterday we saw it in the rain like crazy got a good look at it this morning nice and peaceful again now we're gonna go see what it looks like from the bottom it's a pretty road all right you all know snow's been working on her knee but a lot of times she can't quite get to the waterfalls but i'm pretty stoked this is actually a bit of a i don't know if i call it remote but yeah remote waterfall let's say we got pretty close is we found this from our instagram friends vibes of panama who are overlanders that went all the way to alaska but they're based out of and grew up and lived here they told us this is where to go water all right something must have happened that got into snow when we got stuck in that flash flood last night she's crawling around on these rocks like she's a little millennial but anyway i think she feels the magnetic pull of that waterfall and wants to get into some of that little waterfall mist look at her gear me i can be water um is me uh good morning guys good morning so our morning started with a police checkpoint but it was routine they just checked the paperwork for the van and look at our driver's license and send us on our way but we're doing something a little different today so before we went to bocos del torre poro logos del toro the islands we were up in coffee country in the highlands area of panama very beautiful pretty place and somehow we got our communication lines crisscross because we both thought the other one was in a hurry to get to the islands and now well we kind of feel like we need to backtrack kurt there's a lot of really cool stuff there it was a super cool area there was a lot of stuff basically we left on the table it kind of reminded me that wildlife and some of the other cool stuff in costa rica so we both kind of looked at each other and we're like let's go back we rarely do that well there's another reason to that kind of brought this to light that we had miscommunicated to our to each other you know how much we love the whales and we headed over to the coast where the whales are supposed to be and they're here for a few months out of the year and there's like a range of months and uh this would be the first month but they're not hearing yet they seem to be migrating a little slow this year so we need to buy a little time before we head back out and try to find the whales so kind of all just lined up like it needed to let's turn left guess who's back snow and kurt are back in cerro punta yeah ah what a day it was a long drive we didn't bring you guys along on the drive mainly because you've already seen most of the great stuff we've seen along this route so the next time you're gonna see us as when we are at our destination so as you guys know we are back in sarah punto and we're staying at los catos lodge again and we met the family who owns this place last night beautiful people really enjoyed our visit with them but today i get a special special treat i get to go birdwatching with a professional bird guide so i'm super excited about that and we're going to look for some really cool birds maybe nothing you've seen before but hopefully probably the last time i'll get to see the quetzals and so we're going to go looking for them it's a little overcast a little rainy don't know what the weather's going to bring i think snow's going to have a spa day so hopefully either way we'll keep you entertained but i gotta tell you i am super pumped about this experience today hello my name is talking a little bit about everything around here it's on schedule special switch schedule in panama city area or cerro punta chiriki area there's so many things specialties and beauty around here so it didn't take long we jumped in the four by four and we're headed up and i think we're almost to our first spot guys so i'm here with my trusty guy e2 and uh we're headed up so we're at our first stop and we are at the ketzel trees we don't see any quetzals but we're trying to call them in right now foreign i one of the hottest owl to fund on the topic daytime the most incredible daytime and then what was that woodpecker behind there so i don't know if you guys can see it but there's a pygmy owl right here right in front of us and there's a little hummingbird buzzing around now i think these owls feed on smaller birds and so they're trying to defend their territory this guy's pretty close to us and he's really cool big yellow eyes huge talons for his size but he's only about what would you say about maybe five six inches tall don't know if you guys can see you saw the um before all right guys we're four-wheeling again we didn't find a quetzal there at that last spot but we did find the cool owl and we saw some other cool birds some parakeets and some other stuff so really beautiful being out in the nature hearing the bird sounds and actually learning a lot about the birds and the capsules and some of the other stuff but we're headed to another spot right now now this is a road that we've been up to this is up towards the los quetzalis trail we did not see him when we were up here but i got my secret weapon with us so we're hoping to find him up here okay all right guys it's been a tough morning at quetzal spotting but we've definitely found two females they're off up in that tree kind of hidden away in the brush they're a little bit out of camera range we're able to see them through the binoculars and through the scope a little bit we got a little bit of footage of the one this one's kind of tough they're flying around and they're in cover oh there's one ghost there she goes snow's filming some birds we're here ito let us hang out in his backyard it's a beautiful place he's got hundreds of hummingbirds here and also several tannagers he says he's got 90 species of birds here and i absolutely believe it so we're just enjoying relaxing back here but this is a beautiful place i gotta tell you panama should be on your bucket list and this faro pinto valley this area up here should definitely be a place you want to come you can easily spend a week here enjoy the nature enjoy the food enjoy the beautiful vistas the forest there's so much here and the people here are absolutely amazing me too and his family and also you know we're staying over across the road at the los calas plus catalyst eco lodge and carlos and his family the owners there are also amazing and so i just can't recommend this place enough especially you know for van life but even if you're not in van life and you're looking for a nice cabin or a place to stay a bed and breakfast guys put this on your list it's amazing here you like to stay here all the time at your house okay yeah thank you so much though you need something don't call me a dummy thank you another little hidden secret gem of this ketzel lodge we're staying at i know kurt's been showing you lots and lots of stuff but at the top of these stairs is a spa yesterday while kurt was out on his bird tour i got a little massage here and there's something else up at this spot too let's go see what it is it's been raining a lot so the river's flowing pretty good through here but what we've got right over here is a nice hot soaking tub right in there so i'm about to get in so snow's made it up here and before me and it looks like she's determined this is a one-person hot tub actually i think she's really super relaxed i can't wait to get in there and relax myself we have the beautiful outside nature right here there's the the the roar of the river and i'll tell you yesterday we had a ton of rain i don't know if you could see those boulders right there in the middle of the river but the water level was over there i was talking to carlos the owner he was worried that he might lose some of this property back here but we got the farm back there and it's doing pretty good but that's it for you guys because i'm getting in the hot tub all right now we're completely relaxed from soaking in the tub might be time for a little nap hungry lunch definitely need to get something to eat so you may remember from the last time we were here this place has a nice little lodge lounge area upstairs me and carter headed up there to do a little lounging right Curt we're getting our relaxation on guys it's a nice little place to do that so let's head up to the lounge if you like this video be sure to subscribe to our channel and hit that notification bell so you guys know when we put out new videos and don't forget you can always follow us 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2021-09-06 06:07
