Boquete: Panama's peaceful mountain retreat
January 25th 2015 After our time in Bocas (see that blog post), we traveled by chartered van to the hillside community of Boquete, at 3800 ft. elevation in the northern mountains of Panama. Just outside the town is Panama's highest point, the volcano Baro. More importantly, though, the City lies in a valley noted for its rich coffee plantations, its tropical cloud forest with their abundance of birds and animals, g
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