A short walk, get out of an all-inclusive, and wild animals (part 2)

After making me ban the activities of a hotel complex and get on the go with Gabriel the Panamanian, I find myself on a Thursday afternoon sitting in her mother's kitchen.

She found it completely normal that a tourist that her son picked up on the go arrives at her home in her small village. Sitting at the kitchen table, Gabriel then asks me if I know why he stopped to take me. I figured it was because I was in a big sweat and still had 15 kilometers to walk. Rather my new friend informed me that two weeks ago he had hunted a ocelot to the exact place where I was ...!

Gabriel holding the skin of the beast.

In front of my doubtful expression, Gab goes to the living room and returns with what he believes to be irrefutable proof, the skin of the animal. Like Saint Thomas, I was a kid saying that there was nothing to prove that he had not had skin in the family for 10 years. Meanwhile, her mother, Marlene, rummages in her freezer and pulls out a plastic bag of groceries.

She takes out the kind of hairy balloon that is there, passes it underwater to remove the ice and shows me ... the animal's head! With the eyes!

I'll spare you the photo.

Marlene kept her head to bring her to her work. Beautiful wall decoration indeed.

The visit then continues outside where I meet a stuffed iguana that is put in my hands. Taking a very proud picture with the grandmother and my new friend the iguana, I realize that in the end he is not stuffed but has his legs attached. The abuela laughs.

Just before the abuela points out to me that the iguana is alive.

Marlene gives me a traditional doll.

Time passes, I dine at Marlene's with the whole family, I learn that bananas grow upside down, that traditional skirts are red and that the following Saturday will be Gabriel's uncle's 50th birthday party. . Obviously, I'll be there ...!

Marlene who said to me: "Did you know that bananas grow in the same way?".