Butterflies!

After my surreal day in Bocas, I moved to beautiful hostel with my own room for only a dollar more than the dorms. After the move I decided to visit the butterfly garden. I was particularly excited to see the giant blue incandescent butterflies I had seen at the Panama Canal Museum.

I had to travel by boat, which means I had to go down and haggle with a boat taxi. I had just negotiated the rate to the right price and made sure that I was going to be taken to the correct place with no ¨detours¨ when I heard two girls asking another driver about butterflies. My driver was on it.

Turns out that both of the girls are traveling alone and just met up in Bocas. One girl is a French Canadian and the other Finish. Both were really friendly. We explored the gardens and the surrounding rain forest where we saw a deer, turkeys, and a ton of alligators. The gators were in a pond and could come and go as the pleased. They were only about two feet long.

Here are two of the many different types of butterflies. Most of the butterflies were flying around and didn´t land. I didn´t get a picture of the blue butterfly, but there were several and they were very pretty.





I told my new travel buddies about my wonderful hostel and they decided to move as well (they were in another dorm room at my previous hostel.) We all made plans to go on a scuba tour the following day.