Blogs from Isla Colon, Bocas Del Toro, Panama, Central America Caribbean - page 12

Please revisit the last entry as I've added more photos (-: Costa Rica - Panama Walked across a rickety old bridge into Panama….very unceremonial! Took a taxi van to the water taxi dock, passing many banana packing factories. About an hour to Bocas Del Toro on Isla Colon …. Lovely place. Hot and sticky but seem to be fewer mossies. Took a boat trip with an indigenous guy (called Martine) to neighbouring island hotspots: Dolphin lagoon, Coral Key, Zapatilla Island and Red Frog Beach. We saw a few dolphins (no swimming as there are jellyfish and, they want to protect the 30-40 dolphins they have resident there.) Coral Key has a large jetty with a restaurant on it, just sticky out from the jungle….. The snorkelling was fantastic…. Colourful coral and many, many varieties of fish. ... read more

Bocas Del Toro is absolutley amazing. Its a popular spot compiled of many islands on the carribean sea. We are running into lots of people from our old hostel in Peurto Viejo, and its been really nice to see everyone again that youve already said bye too. We ran into Adam today, walking down the street in isla colon, and we all took a taxi to this beatiful beach north of the island. Its scattered with coconut trees, and has the typical image of a carribean beach. We saw dead tuna fish when we were walking along the beach, and they were massive. Some snorkelers from France found a hermit crab in a shell about the size of my forearm in length, and it secreted a very nasty concotion of fecal matter onto my hand...defense mechanism ... read more

We are in Bocas Del Toro, Panama. Finally broke down to pay for some internet here. It is $2 an hour. So expensive. We made it here yesterday around 4pm. Time changed when we came to Panama and now we are in the same time zone. We met a girl from Sacramento and her name is Elyse and she is traveling alone. We all got a room together yesterday and it was a dump. So bad!!!! We spent last evening checking around other places for so we could move elsewhere today. We found a place and moved there. I guess it is really hard to find something right now because the Costa Rica students are on two week break so everyone came here for vacation. The place we are in now is $22 each but very ... read more

We quickly made our way from Costa Rica to Panama. Sorry for the lack of writting, internet access has been few and far between (and expensive). After leaving Nicaragua, we traveled to Tortuguero, Costa Rica which is an island where you are supposed to be able to see turtles and was supposed to be the best jungle in Central America. Well, I guess we just hit it the wronge time of the year because we did not have the same luck as that described by the Lonely Planet. The tours were expensive and the only real way to explore this river based rainforest. After we were told that perhaps we would not see turtle during our night turtle tour we decide to do a rainforest tour via canoa. Well, to say the least we saw more ... read more

Nothing much new to report really, Im still in Bocas Del Toro. Such a nice place, everybody is so friendly and lost count the amount of new people I know. Only thing that I dont like about being here is the Mosquitos. They really are a pain. My eg is still sunburnt badly, got to the point its cut open and bleeding badly, Ive managed to get some antibiotics for it and its started to look much healthier and on the mend the last 2 days. Still walking with a slight limp too but I guess I just have to be patient and rest it up. Thanks for all the messages sent through, its nice to read. Yesterday we switched islands to have a rest from the party place although it was very quiet with just ... read more