hey hey guys so we've decided to take this side road up over to the caribbean across panama it's
a pretty new road and the road ends up in carlo vevora yeah we went over to santa fe so santa fe
is a cute little town in the mountains we spent the night over at a church just in the parking
lot of the church but we did walk around a little bit and we got some vegetables and had breakfast
there it was a really cute little town santa fe there's free internet where we were staying
which was really nice but the road up to santa fe was getting pretty wild going winding through the
mountains tons of potholes dodging but we've had beautiful views and we found a waterfall hike that
is free so it has three waterfalls but we only went to two we only found two and it's a really
nice swimming hole we got cooled off there so it's about a 10 minute walk to the first waterfall
and you can keep wandering the trails to find little pools and explore it's perfect place to get
pulled off we were also able to swim alone which is really nice because sometimes whenever you go
to a waterfall there's tons of people there but we're perfectly fine finding a spot by ourselves
waterfalls free great swimming hole so after we left the waterfalls we came up into the santa fe
national park here and the road has been getting very steep so you have to be careful using the
engine brake going downhill to keep your brakes from overheating and beyond that we also didn't
know there's no gas station in santa fe or the whole way to the caribbean ocean yes so
we're driving carefully because of steepness and also try not to use too much gas but apparently
it's only about 40 more minutes from here to the ocean we're gonna try and spend the night
here we'll see after elijah walla you know if somebody comes and tells us we're not allowed but
but i like this because there's not really that much on eye overlander here and this is a fairly
recent road the bridge that made it so you didn't have to have a four-wheel drive was just completed
i think a year or two ago and pretty much all the information you find about this road says
don't bring an rv because it's so steep you're going to ruin it
and it just feels good to be out here adventuring kind of on the edge of
of what is known for people like us and hopefully we can contribute a spot or two to ioverlander to
help the next folks and in the meantime we'll enjoy the nice cooler temperatures tonight
thanks for the new sticker alejandro anna
well we just wake up here and i think i'll let the dog out she runs right over here to something in
particular i thought what does she find there's a crab up here at the mirror door and this is
like a mega crab too this is a crab out of water this is look at this crap you live up
here buddy how did you get up here did somebody drop you off a second ago man no no no no no no
so we were just gonna wait until it stopped raining to leave but i looked at my overlander
and it says that this place is just super rainy so i'm not sure it's gonna stop raining so
we don't really have that much time left up here because i am getting a flight soon i think it's
time to go even though it's raining it might be a little stressful hopefully we're not stuck
yeah check this out here you can see over on the side that is not great but underneath us
that's why i parked well it's pretty rocky but i mean also the downhill it's gonna be a
crazy ride yeah we're pointed downhill we have to go back up but i went up to this pile of rocks
so at least we'll have like initial traction and below us is hopefully a little dry because we've
been parked here all day so let's see what happens pretty common situation for us yeah
that's the super muddy part right over there though okay so we're still at like half tank
wow yeah that was a pretty muddy spot
this part here had like a big dip remember yeah you can avoid it with our knowledge
okay ready for the scary steep road yeah and the pouring rain it's downshift
wow but on the road this steep you really got to feather the brakes
if you hold down the brake too long that's how your brakes start smoking
and the engine brake is essential as well i don't want to make like a van life
app game for you how to do that i don't know if it sounds boring you guys should make a vanlife app
comment let us know what future would give you double the points
wow i wonder if this is the s-curve that was mentioned on ioverlander he said a particular
1s curve will really test your brakes and your cooling system on the way back up so here comes
an official vehicle i still have no idea who those guys are like there's so many trucks that just say
use official on it like i just don't i don't understand wow yeah these corners are wild because
you don't want to have to slow down that much because of the braking
but then you have to because it's like a sharp corner this might be the second mirror door
it's already looking like so much clearer yeah i think we were just in a rainy pocket
and as for the gas trying to keep that from going out looks like we're still got a little under half
a tank and this has been mostly downhill so we're getting really good got good gas mileage going
this way here looks like i'll be able to add something to the map looks like a sweet trail
let's check out where this goes i think this trail might be the ranger told me he said at the
third bridge that there was a nice waterfall you can walk to that isn't as large as the
loma grande that's already on the map but he said it was a nice path to it and a really
beautiful waterfall so hopefully that's what we're going to check out right now but who
knows just might end up at somebody's house over here but i really wanted to try to add something
to this not very well explored new side road in panama ah so it does look like somebody's house
well it does look like just a village up here which is still pretty epic but i don't think i'll
intrude a nice kind of palapa style village well it was actually pretty dope guy comes out chatting
it up with me so everybody says hi in the fam on my way out he says are you afraid of the tiger
it's like what so yeah there's a huge tiger that roams around this area he's like are you afraid
yeah i guess and then everybody starts laughing i got my tiger spray so it's all good and as for the
other waterfall he did say it's that spot on that overlander that says swimming hole
so you can hike over there and find a waterfall there wasn't much parking anywhere by the road
so this one had a little spot to park and just thought i'd take a look emily's over there cooking
and then we'll keep going to calauera but what a cool place to live for these people
they were super nice i just kind of stood up at the edge of the hill without walking into
their house you know they walked over i said hey sorry i thought there was a waterfall over here
and he said oh no problem you don't have to say sorry we're just a a family that lives up here i'm
interesting see how it is up here so we're about to cross the bridge that connects the caribbean
to the main part of panama since february 2020 they've made it so this road is completely paved
and they put a bridge in over this crazy raging river that we've already caught a glimpse of
it's the only way to the caribbean from poland in panama so it's going to
be really cool little towns should be super isolated so thankful they built this bridge
with a van you're always reliant on the road builders to allow you to go anywhere
even national forest roads in the u.s wow crossing that with a four-wheel drive would be
there's no way anyone does it in the rainy season oh my gosh yeah the rio california
or something that's a big river and straight up afterwards well we can see the ocean now
yes almost there looks like a huge like lake or like a marshy area next to
the ocean yeah it's coming up i think this is it oh my gosh is this just the end of the road
does it turn
i think this is pretty much it though yeah what's what do we have an io
uh end of the road yeah let's see this place
all right well we found a campsite here pretty fast honestly we're just right next to the only
hostel at the end of the road the lady inside is super duper nice she came up with smiles and
you know we asked oh can we park here we don't need to run a bed we have a bed in
our car and she said so you just want to park and sleep in your car
and we say yes maybe we'll use the bathroom and she said okay well yeah you could use the bathroom
if you need a shower 50 cents for a shower and zero to stay zero to stay so now danny and i are
gonna go take a walk and we'll show you more of this little town so this is our first look here
at the beach of calavera it's definitely not built up at all this is the most undeveloped beach town
i've seen in central america there's a shipwreck what let's go check it out nobody's coming up to
us asking if we want to do a tour which is like pretty nice but at the same time we have no
clue what to do so this should be the exit of the caloveboras river there's so many chickens on this
beach there's chickens everywhere and there's that shipwreck that's actually across the river oh yeah
so basically everyone we've talked to people asking what should we do what should we do
a lot of them are saying go for a nice little walk
yeah it seems like some people just come down to the water here to camp and drink beers
show me
how this goes this is how you get the wi-fi here or just on your phone you can do it
this is a the internet boss here okay i got a dollar oh man this little kid he's running
the whole system here he's like should i give him my money but yeah he knows what he's doing
he's got the key and he can hook up the wi-fi this seems to be the town center here everybody
hanging out with drinking beers i'm the only person with a mask and i'm sweating
that is pretty much the best walk we could hope for
that is always the best case scenario where a family sees you and they want to chat
and then they invite you to your home and then they offer you food and drinks and i mean yeah
a traveler's dream i think every traveler would agree oh my gosh i didn't get it on film when uh
the birthday boy asked if you could have a little dance with emily um good thing you didn't get numb
no it was great
everybody was live-streaming it so i'm sure you can find it somewhere and of course you know on
our way out we well because we thought well let's just head out for a little bit maybe we'll head
back of course some guys at the street like hey here's another beer you know go and have a chat
and we said we're probably going to come back and bring a bottle of wine for the birthday boy so we
can chip in a little bit because the generosity here has just been amazing especially when we had
no clue what to do barely even finished a beer and they were handing you another one and then handing
you a plate of food and so nice wow and it was pretty funny because the husband it's his birthday
and the wife but the guys are saying hey danny now it's your turn to dance with the birthday girl
but they were drinking like aguardientes and a nice flavored clear liquor and they were
drinking it with milk and ice i've never seen that before in my life oh and the other girl
that was sitting by us we were chatting with she said i had a bad experience with that i'm good
but oh my gosh the food the time hanging out the music
good morning good morning we had a great time last night hanging out at the party
and you know we feel like we've had a great experience here the weather is not great enough
to do the boat trip that everybody recommends it's like an hour long boat ride to isla escondido but
yeah we're gonna just take a walk along the beach here explore a little more before maybe heading
out but the first step here is we gotta cross this little river oh yeah this part's pretty shallow
but there's so many little fish
well there was the end of the beach but we found this little path coming
up rather sombrita found it so let's see what's up here
all right well we just got all showered and feel nice and clean we're heading out of the
little town we're gonna miss it it's a really nice experience down there even though it doesn't seem
like a crazy amount to do it was definitely fun for us it was probably you know that's a memory
that we'll be telling people from for the rest of our lives so that's pretty cool and it looks like
we still have a third tank of gas so we should make it back up over the mountain safely all
right well we're gonna close down here we'll see you guys next time thanks so much for watching bye
you