I had heard many times before of the famous waterfall called Salto Dorado, hidden deep in the jungle outside of Cerro Esperanza, inside of the Palo Seco national park in the Indian reservation called the Comarca Ngäbe-Buglé. But hardly anyone I knew had actually seen it. Only one friend of mine had been there, a former Peace Corps volunteer who served in Cerro Esperanza and has since gone back to the States. She called it the “Angel Falls of Bocas del Toro.” So when my friend Andrew from the Lost and Found Hostel asked me to join him on a mission to find this legendary waterfall, I jumped at the opportunity. Five of us piled into the car – Andrew, myself, and three of the guests at the Lost and Found, located inside the Fortuna Forest
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