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My Story: Student #40
El día que salí de Ecuador pase por Colombia, y desde ahí pase por diferentes países. Antes de pasar a Panamá, tuve una experiencia; lo cual me tocó acampar a la deriva en la selva. Primero, tuve que pasar un camino hasta llegar a coger un bote donde pasaría por un río lleno de lagartos, pero al parecer eran bebés. En cuestión de menor estatura así que eran algo inofensivos. Luego de pasar dicho río pasé por un camino lleno de barro por donde era muy complicado caminar. Algunas personas que tenían dinero iban en caballo, pero yo tuve que caminar 3 kilómetros de barro aunque íbamos lento. Al final, llegamos a la carretera y así podíamos tener opción para salir de Panamá.
Luego de salir de Panamá, pase por Costa Rica, en donde tuve aproximadamente seis días hasta salir de ahí. La comida era buena, y el día que salimos de Costa Rica a Nicaragua nos tocó pasar por un largo naranjal. Nos demoramos dos horas caminando hasta salir del naranjal hacia Nicaragua. Al salir, volvimos a pasar en bote hasta llegar a
Nicaragua. El lago que pasamos también estaba rodeado de cocodrilos. En Nicaragua estuvimos cuatro días donde comimos poco porque no habían restaurantes. Para salir de Nicaragua tomamos un bus que nos dejó cerca de la frontera, la cual pasamos caminando a Honduras donde nos hicimos presentes para recibir el salvoconducto. Desde Honduras empezamos a tomar carros hasta llegar a la frontera de Guatemala, donde nos hospedamos en un hotel durante medio día, ya que el mismo día tomamos un transporte hacia México.
En México pasamos por Oaxaca hasta Veracruz. En Veracruz comimos un poco y nos fuimos a Puebla. En Puebla estuvimos dos días luego cogimos transporte hacia ciudad de México, y de ciudad de México fuimos a piedras negras pasamos el río y nos entregamos a migración.
The day I left Ecuador I went through Colombia, and from there I went through different countries. Before going to Panama, I had a crazy experience; I had to camp in the jungle. First, I had to go through a path until I was able to catch a boat where I would go through a river full of alligators, but apparently they were babies. In fact, they had a smaller stature so they were somewhat harmless. After crossing said river, I went through a path full of mud where it was very difficult to walk. Some people who had money rode horses, but I had to walk three kilometers through mud even though we were going slowly. In the end, we reached the highway and thus we were able to leave Panama.
After leaving Panama, I went through Costa Rica, where I had approximately six days to get out of there. The food was good, and the day we left Costa Rica for Nicaragua we had to pass through a long orange grove. We spent two hours walking until we left the orange grove towards Nicaragua. When we left, we went back by boat until we reached Nicaragua. The lake we passed was also surrounded by crocodiles. We spent four days in Nicaragua where we ate only a little because there were no restaurants. To leave Nicaragua we took a bus that dropped us off near the border, where we walked to Honduras where to present to receive the safe-conduct guide. From Honduras we began to take cars until we
reached the Guatemalan border, where we stayed in a hotel for half a day, since that same day we took transportation to Mexico.
In Mexico we went through Oaxaca to Veracruz. In Veracruz we ate a little and went to Puebla. We stayed in Puebla for two days, then we took transportation to Mexico City, and from Mexico City we went to Piedras Negras, crossed the river, and turned ourselves into migration.