Panama jan 13

 Yesterday I spent the whole day in bed sick with diarrhea.I think I ate some bad Chinese food.I was so weak and dehydrated from diarrhea I couldn't get out of bed.Every few hours I needed to rush to the toilet which was no small feat as I haven't one in my room and sometimes the shared ones are either occupied or closed as there is a water problem in Panama.Too much rain has contaminated the water supply and whole sections of the city are without water for a while.This morning I felt good enough to take a taxi to the Panama Metropolitan Parque and walk around...I spent around 4 hours wandering the trails.Great lookouts over the city...lots of worker ants carrying leaves through the forest.They are really a sight to behold aye.Saw some Jacouti,s and those racoon type animals but no monkeys.Lots of Morpfu butterflies.
There is a jazz festival in Panama this week.This morning I was talking to a German fellow about it and if I'm around on Saturday I check out some of the venues in Casca Viejo where I am staying.I'm still trying to work out my boat trip to Colombia. I wanted to go to Darien province but there has been a lot of flooding there and relief operations are taking place so I would just be a pest and add to the troubles of the authorities if I went.I may visit some aboriginal communities in a few days if the Colombia trip is delayed but there again once I have some firm date on the boat trip  I'll head over to Potobello.Lots of the travellers here are heading to Boga Toras...you know...that area just south of Manzanilla and Peuto Viejo on the Panama coast.It is probably similiar to where we were.Every day there is a rain storm...down ours for an hour and that is it.
 Oh ya..one final thing...You know how other Latin countries have lots of stray dogs wandering about.Well in Panama it is cats.They are all over the place.The other night as I was going back to the hostel. I saw two small kittens scamper across the road and creep through a fence into an abandoned building.
The day before yesterday I bought another camera...pretty well the same one that I lost or had stolen...$200.00.I must have gone to a dozen different stores comparing prices.
Anyway...I need to get something to eat to get my energy back.
Talk to you later...