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Wednesday, July 23, 2008

Silent Walker

Yesterday we went looking for butterflies aggregations around the actual Gamboa town. We peeked into backyards and asked around if anyone had seen before the nocturnal aggregations. People was quite friendly but no one had seen the aggregations at dusk. We walked all the way till the end of a no-exit street and start searching near a shrub line. When searching we saw a small trail so I said, let's see if get lucky. The trail actually brought us into a big rain forest patch. It was almost magic, like a door to the forest. On our walk I saw a person ahead of us, it was an indian. He had no shoes and he made almost no sound when walking. We approached him to say hi, he said "hi my name is Smith". His spanish was very basic. I asked him what was his tribe and he said he was a "Chocoi". Then he grabbed his bag and said do you want to buy some handcrafts? I said sure show me what you have. He had a mask and a little base, both were pretty cool! and actually they were like 4-5 times cheaper than in any market I've been to here in Panama. Then I realized I just had 2 dollars in my wallet, hahaha -I would have never imagined me buying from an indian in the middle of the jungle-. So I told him lets met tomorrow at the beginning of the trail and I will buy you some handcrafts. After our coversation we continued walking and we saw the butterflies, yes! we found another aggregation!

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Hola hijo
Que experiencias tan únicas que estas teniendo. Todas las historias van dando para un libro. Te seguimos encomendando. Y la seguridad de tus equipos, bien? Un abrazo de tu Papá