Buenas! This weekend was awesome! We spent Saturday and Sunday in El Valle, a volcanic crater (3 by 5 km). Saturday, we flew through the canopy of the rain-forest on zip-lines, which was nothing short of amazing. We also stopped by a hot spring where we played in mud and bathed in the pool; later we rode on horseback through the mountains. Once back at our hotel in El Valle, we relaxed and talked outside on the top floor in hammocks. Yesterday morning, some of us left early for a several hour hike to an altitude of 1,300 meters atop "The Sleeping Indian" (a mountain that resembles an Indian woman laying on her back). We traveled with our local guide and Dora the Explorer - his perrito - up and down the mountains, stopping only for pictures and a brief swim in a waterfall. Later, some visited the marketplace and later the zoo which houses some of the last surviving yellow tree frogs in Panama (among other animals including sloths and penguins).Today, we resumed classes and returned to The City of Knowledge (CDS), where we learned about a specific component of the City - El Tecno Parque. Home to a business incubator and accelerator, Isabel Donato explained to us that the Tecno Parque currently assists fourteen innovative companies with forming connections with other CDS-affiliated organizations through a supportive relationship from CDS. Formerly US Ft. Clayton, CDS serves Panama by offering housing, infrastructure, tax breaks, and venture capital for young companies.
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