Lake Bayano Caving Adventure

Julia, Tammi, Laura, Morgan

We drove 2 hours into the Darien Gap (with a car accident on the way there, but that's a story for another time).  The Darien is the untouched land b/t Panama and Colombia.  It's all rainforests and caves and wildlife.

After a 30 minute boat ride on Lake Bayano, we passed the indigenous K-12 school house (only accessible by boat), and started hiking into the caves.

There were underground rivers with hundreds of bats squeaking and flying above, there were snakes and dart frogs and huge spiders, there were lovely open spaces full of sunshine, and spots so dark you couldn't see six inches in front of your face.

It was an awesome Panama adventure.   We even got to swim in a natural swimmin' hole at the end of the hike.

tiny little dart frog- black body with lime green dots.  About the size of my thumbnail. 

like a booby trap just waiting for Indiana Jones