It is incredibly, and huge. They incorporate the environment a lot in their property by exhibiting snakes, reptiles, fish, and even butterflies. They also have a beautiful garden where they like to create their own orchids.
For some reason they are having a hard time filling the resort. Apparently they have been marketing to Panamanians, but it seems like Americans and Europeans would really love it here with the luscious pools and interesting tours. We also got to take a monkey tour. It lasted about an hour where we drove through the canal and out a ways to get to "monkey island." We saw several monkeys, including one carrying a baby, as well as a sloth. The boat ride was peaceful, but also really cool to see the canal from a different perspective.
We ate lunch at their restaurant which overlooked their small lake-like part of the canal. It was absolutely wonderful.
The waiter came over and said "cocorillos" to one of our spanish-fluent students with excitement and then walked off. She finally requested him again to understand "cocorillos." It took a couple minutes to realize he was dropping an "r" in the word for crocodile!
We ran over to other end of the seating deck to see two crocodiles. The staff began throwing bread down for them to eat.
To watch something like that, in real life, use its huge jaws was incredible. There were tons of turtles as well that were trying to get bread, too. The alligator acted as if they weren't even there when they crawled over his back to get to the bread. When he decided he wanted bread he would just barge in on all of them and steal it, ha! We also noticed a couple turtles seeming to yoga on dry logs. They were standing with one leg outstretched, completely still. Ha!
From there we went back up the the main building and looked around while we waited on our bus to return us to the hotel.
As we waited we toured the "backyard" of the main building. Inside there was a huge atrium beginning with a large waterfall which led to several small ones. As you descended varying flights of stairs you came down the the bottom bridge (still indoors) in which the water flowed to the outside. When we circled around to go outside I saw it was a huge waterfall that again lead to other waterfalls and small pools, all feeding into the largest pool at the bottom of varying flights of stairs. The scene had a lot of plant life and alligator statues. The main pool had a swim-up bar with bar stools in the water as well as a basketball hoop and volleyball net. There was also a smaller kiddie pool that was fed by one of the waterfalls and elevated above the main portion, adding yet another waterfall.
It was an incredible site to look out to the rainforest covered mountains from such a scenic and lush pool.
For now I am going to go lay by our simple one here prepping for the last day of Carnavales!
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