Muntezuma

Hola mi amigos,

I'm in Muntezuma now, a great place for parties, relaxing and lying on the beach while doing nothing.

We (Alex, Yaron, Ofir, Casy) will be here till the new year since there is a big giant party on the beach right next to us, hope it will be great over there.

today we hiked to see 2 nice waterfalls in the nearest park.

till next time, I wish a Happy new year, and that all your wishes come true in this year.

Eran

P.S: no pics until Alex go back to the states which will be on the 07/01/2008.

Playa Manuel Antonio

Merry Christmas,

 

Me, Yaron and Alex came to Playa Manuel Antonio which suppose to be the second beautiful beach in the world as some american girl told us.

 

It's really nice place tough very expensive and boring at night since there are lots of American families coming to travel here.

 

Most of the time we are lying on the beach and getting tan, I even got my self really burn from the boiling sun.

 

There are lots of monkeys here even on the main street which is really nice, but it's too quite for me so we gonna leave tomorrow to somewhere else with much more action.

 

BTW (Elad): The class 4 rafting I did was really dangerous since it was heavy rain most of the time.

 

I wish you all a merry christmas and a happy new year.

 

EK

woooo haaaaa...... what a rush !!!

oh man, oh man, oh man, what an excitement. Me, Yaron and Alex (2 israelis I met) went today to do the Rafting (Class IV), on the best river in Costa Rica. The floating in this river, Toro is so fast like you can not imagine (not the bullshit stuff for family trip in Kfar Blum on Ramat Hagolan).

Me, Alex, Yaron

The raft is for 6 people + a guide, that suppose to give instructions on how to paddle. We had a young instructor that had several mistakes and made us fall over to the rough water twice, plus we lost some team members all the time since they fell off, after every bump into a big rock. It was a very cool, danger river and a very extreme experience.

The crew members

We were the only team that where upside down twice, while all the other teams were rafting regularly.

Me after the first falling while one the guides yelled at me: ¨Swim mother fucker swim¨


Me, Yaron and Alex (israeli that lives in New York) got ourselves few bruises while getting hit by the big rocks, but I guess we will live.


I have lots of pics during the rafting that one of the crew members took all the time and I gonna share it as soon as he will send it to me.

BTW: The day before yesterday we went to see the lava of the Arenal Volcano during activity, and it was nice to see kind of fireworks from the mountain.


Merry Christmas from Costa Rica,


Eran

La Furtuna - Areanal

two days ago I went to see the wild life in the cloud forest, it was a bit frighting since there are lots of Tarantula and other species but we did managed to catch some living in the woods.
The day after I left to a town called La Furtuna that has a big volcano mountain.
I will go hike on this mountain this afternoon, and yesterday I spent my day in relaxing at the Bladi hot springs (something like Hamat Gader but much nicer).

Monteverde & Santa Elena

OK, so I left David as you wanted me to do, and I took a 5 and half hours bus to Senta Elena which was a nightmare after getting used to a comfortable air con 4X4 jeep.

I found myself the cheapest room ever, 5 bucks for single room + hot water.

Santa Elena is a small town that located 6 km from the biggest rain forest of Costa Rica.
I woke up really early today and took a trip to that rain forest which called Monteverde.
At that trip I took the Canopy (Omega), which was so amazing plus there was a Tarzan Swing (kind of free fall from side to side) which was fucking awesome.

I got some digital pictures that a french guy took for me and he will send it to me in 10 days.After that I took the walking path which has 8 high bridges at the height of the trees so you could see the forest from above.

The Nature of Costa Rica

Yesterday night was Festival De La Luz, a walking parade with people from all around Costa Rica that came to wave to the crowd.

 

I taught it will be like a mini carnaval but it was very much boring.

 

Anyhow, this morning me and David went out to see a Volcano but we didn't get it so we just walked to one of the waterfalls we found in the way. We walked all the way down to the river and then realized I left my swimming suit back in the car.

but... it did not stop from me to get inside to the cold refreshing water since I put off all my clothes and getting my self all naked.

We waited for some 'Kosiot' to come over and warm us, but the nature was cruel to us and we were all alone with pure nature and lots of bugs.

 

BTW: Costa Rica is so far behind in technology (they still sell the huge monitors for computers) so all the digital cameras here are so old models and fucking expansive.

So I bought myself the good old fashion camera (for 15$ including 2 films of 36 pictures), totally manual and it even works with no batteries.

Pura Vida - Life Is Good

Pura Vida is the saying everybody says here in Costa Rica which means "Life is Good".
I'm in San Jose now - the capital of Costa Rica, just got here like 2 hours ago.

The last 4 days I was in Bocas Del Toro a great island in Panama, but it was sucks since I lost my camera on the first day over there plus it was raining everyday, all day. :-(

I had like 3 or 4 beers for breakfast, so I kind of lost my mind and put my camera on the bench in the fire department (yes, it's also a bar) of Bocas Del Toro, I left the place and like 5 minutes after I remembered it was there but... the bastards already took it.
I asked them and they all deny it had been left over there.

Anyhow, the fireman that drank with me beer said it's there but he can't give it to me since he has pressure on him from above (probably his boss) and told me go to the police. So I did it, and it took me like 3 hours to give a statement and all the bullshit around.

BTW: the fireman got arrested also to give a statement and he was locked up for a day since he was stoned from marijuana.

So, I was going the fire department and the police like everyday to ask about my lovely tiny camera but with no luck.
It looks like the police took my case as primary issue since they brought the Panamanian FBI to the island and they had a few lead of investigation.

Even Ronald's (fireman) mom got involved and she invited me to her house and said she will investigate her son and see how she can help me to solve the problem. I do want to believe it will come up someday and I will get an email, "We found your camera", but I guess I should be realistic and buy myself a digital camera with all the new gadgets inside since it will never come up.

beside that pity incident, the rest was quite fine (except for the lousy weather), there were tons of Israelis and we celebrate Hanuka, and had few parties. after Bocas Del Toro, me and David drove to the border of Costa Rica and met the bureaucracy way of Panama, it took us a day to fix the car paperwork, but eventually we managed to cross the border.

Till now, the people of Costa Rica looks really nice and the girls here are much more hot than in Panama. Me and David swam today on nice beach in Costa Rica, but since there was no sun and the wind was so rough, the waves was really really high and David almost got drown.

more stories will come soon, till then Buenus Nuches from San Jose, Costa Rica.

EK

Happy Hanukkah

Happy Hanukkah from Panama City,

 

Yesterday was the first candle but I we couldn't find any candles to lit up.

Today we called to Beit Habad and asked them when are they lightning the Hanuckaia but... we didn't get invited.

 

I met yesterday some Israelis that went to the Beit Knesset, they asked for their passport to prove the are really Jewish and after all this procedure they didn't got invited inside for the pray.

 

It's a fucking closed society and they are not want any strangers even though we are Jew, so all I can say is fuck holidays and fuck the religion.

 

But at least today I found a Dunkin Donates store and I bought myself 2 donates (Sofgania) and I celebrate Hanukkah in my own way :-)

Kassco Veiech - The Old Panama City

OK...so well shell I start, yesterday evening I went with David to the old city and over there I asked from old Panamanian man to take us photo, than he started to ask from where am I and we heard I´m Israeli he and his friends was thrilled and we had a small chit chat.

He offered to take us around and showed us all the historic places and told us the story that was behind each exhibit, building and street.
It´s was great and so much fun to travel with him until he offered us to go up to hotel he knows the manager, and he will allow us to go up the top floor and see the view of Panama City.

We were thrilled and took the offer, and all 5 of us (me, David, Old man, his friend and his wife) went together to the elevator plus the guard of the hotel.

we pressed the top floor which happened to be only 4, and in the middle between 3 to 4 we got stuck.
the woman that was with us happened to had klastropopia so she got stress a bit and prayed to god. her husband has High Sick (Pachad Gvaeem) and when we open the moving door and looked down he got panic. The old nice man suffers from high level pressure and he started also to panic and sweat and he took his short off. The guard was quite was you could see he his in stress, and David got panic because of the old man that almost died on us.
And I was so chilled out and looked at everybody losing there minds, and loughed to myself.
David tried to break the door, and the old man tried to bread from this door to get some fresh air.

While they are trying to use their cellulars and called for help, Candy a nice English girl came for us and brought us some water with plastic bags.
After more than half an hour the police, the fire department and the technicians of the elevator came for the rescue mission.

All of us survived and their stress gone over, we drunk Coca-Cola together and lough at what just happened. As you can all guessed probably we didn´t go the top floor and I never got to see the city from above.

BTW: send me some updates about what´s going on Israel, stock market, sports, when is Hanukkah, family, friends, Tambour and all the shit.

Adios Amigos,
Senior Eran

Trip to Taboga and to the Casino

Yesterday morning I wake up really early to catch the boat to Taboga an island that is near by Panama City.

but... as usually me and David missed it by 3 minutes, so we had to wait another 2 and a half hours. This island is really really nice and with clean blue water. It reminded me Koh Phi Phi in Thailand.

We rest and getting tan there most of the day, then we went to David's friend an old American guy that lives on this island with his dying wife. We drunk beer together, swim in his pool and had a few loughs about the bad system in America and how it's so expansive to live in the states.

In the evening I went to the casino (because on Sunday some how all the clubs are closed) for first time in my life a real casino, It was great experience, I started at the Black Jack table with 15 dollars and I won few rounds but lost it all in half hour. Then I took my quoter's and started to play on the slots machines, and on my second try I won 50 coins :-) i was so happy but after I calculated how much it is I realized it's only 12.5 dollars and I'm still behind with what I came with. So I continued to play on a poker machine and the horse race and all the casino but with no real luck and then out of nowhere I become broke again :-(

In the end I lost totally 20 bucks, but at least I got 2 free drinks so yeepee to me.

Some other Israelis that I met there lost 65 dollars each, so I guess I had luck I didn't went out with all my money on me that day.

December First

Hooo boy what a day, a bad one.

Me and David planned to go to an island with his car and by boat.

But...as usual we got lost and got ourselves to a bad neighborhood, luckily we managed to get out but then we got lost the way again and the started to fell apart.

we decided to go back to the city and go to a mechanic to fix it, but.... we took the wrong direction of the road an a police officer stopped us.

we asked for his mercy, that we are new in town and all the bullshit stuff but it didn't work till he checked my passport and saw I'm Israeli and i have a birthday today.

he started to like us, and he helped us to find a mechanic. before he left he came to us and said "Come to drink coffee with me" in other word he meant give me some bribe.

anyhow, as a good Israelis we just thanked him and shacked hands.

than most of the day spent in the garage in traveling all around the city to look for the part that got broken.

The day is not over yet, but worse than this morning i guess it can't be.

Everyday i find myself here on the computer fixing and updating and I even helped them yesterday to install the wireless network.

wow... right now David came with his car fixed.

we will see how the day is gonna change now.

see ya,

EK

BTW: Elran, yes the slippers were great on the flight, and even after the long walk in new york and panama city it felt so great.

As you can see my day did change for good cause I met her

Second day on Panama

Ok, so yesterday morning I started by meeting the 3 religish israelis guys that reminded me how to "PUT THFILEEN" and pray to god.

 

I did it in order to start my trip on "REGEL YAMIN". 

 

After that I went out and saw the ugly side of the so fucking polluted city, In the evening I met David Israeli business man that do dental stuff and we ate a "GRAN DE" (big) fish (with bones and the head and all the stuff that I never used to touch) in a good restaurant.

 

Today I have been in a nice clean area of 3 islands that are connected by a road that the Americans built.

 

I also been in the "New Panama" the richest side of Panama City with lots of shopping malls, big skyline building that made by the Jewish mind people.

 

The people hre in the guesthouse are changing here everyday, till now there were 6 Israelis, 4 french guys, 1 italiano, 1 Venezuela, and 1 from England.

 

Tomorrow is my birthday, and i don't know how will i celebrate it.

 

Adios till next time.

 

EK