Our sojourn in Santa Fe is coming to an end.

Sadly!

What a little paradise it is here: the village of Santa Fe is lost in the mountains among plantations of oranges, bananas and coffee haciendas. Our hostel is a bamboo construction with a panoramic view of the mountains.

And the perfumes: around 8pm, the smell of jasmine starts to invade the air and during the daytime, it is the smell of roasting coffee beans that moves through the valley ...

Yesterday we went for a swimm in a river, Rio Santa Maria, and had a wonderful view of the mountains. Today, we hiked to Alto Pedra...until the rain got too much and we decided to tun around. Nevertheless, we saw some toucans, lots of different butteflies, as well as cattles and horsemen; this is a cowboy paradise here! After such hikes, we like to stop at our little restaurant (!) in the village to feast on a huge meal of puerco (pork) or pollo (chicken) with rice and beans, for $2.00! So, we will enjoy the rest of the day here before starting the trip back to Panama city and then Colon tomorrow morning. We should meet our friends Pam and Bill there in the afternoon. We will start early: but we don´t need alarm clocks here. There are hundreds of cockerels "singing" every morning..beetween 3 and 7am..to be sure that EVERYBODY heard them! Our friend Karen would love this!!!! So, hasta luego amigos. We will post pictures when we are back in Kingston.