Aerial tram

One last tour. The resort offered this aerial tram tour thru the canopy of the jungle. It looked bright and sunny when we left the room for the tour. Nope, it started raining soon after. Thankfully, they had a tram-car-thing which could accommodate a wheelchair and had a rain roof. Yay. It’s a bit like a ski lift, but enclosed so you cant fall out. It takes you up the side of the hill thru the jungle. You can look down 100 ft and see the red clay below and all the different trees. Our guide taught us about the palm trees, and the balsa trees, and the paper trees. We saw several iguanas sitting on a tree branch, sunning themselves as if there were any sun.

And then there was the short hike up to the look out tower. Our guide said it was only 3 meters high, then again, he spoke Spanish. I think he meant 30 meters. The view from the top was awesome. Faintly thru the rain we could see the canal, the resort, and the town nearby. And multiple hills of jungle. On the hike back I asked the guide what this cool spiky plant was. I almost grabbed it to show him which but decided that caution is better. That? oh, that’s the shdfkljd plant, all those spikes have poison in them which hurts and then you get welts all over and enough can kill you. …caution saves again. He also said that panama has 1000 dif palm trees and 127 dif kinds of snakes, 27 of which are poisonous. Hence, im ok with not having memorized all the dif snakes. See snake, kill snake. Very simple.