We walked along the the Royal Road of Crosses (Camino Real de Cruces, in Spanish), one of the historical routes of the isthmus of Panama that connected the Caribbean Sea with the Pacific Ocean during the colonial era.
We walked in the morning, very early in the morning (the difference in kilos of sun and heat), leaving from Papaya and heading towards an impossible entrance, muddy and locked. Bikes don’t pass through there, but neither do people sometimes. But in the end we passed. We headed down a path, a little path surrounded by vegetation. The Road of Crosses.
We found animals for the first time. We jumped over streams without falling (just barely). They told me that sometimes it was better to fall than to lean on the trees, for what there might be. Panels explaining the origin of that path. Path of the first explorers between Colon (Caribbean) and Panama (Pacific)