Blogs from Bocas Del Toro, Panama, Central America Caribbean - page 24

Hallo allemaal!! hier dan eindelijk de blog!! Sorry dat het allemaal zo lang heeft geduurd maar was allemaal erg druk in de eerste paar daagjes! Anyway....een samenvatting van de afgelopen dagen.....komt ie!!! De vlucht enzo is allemaal prima verlopen! alles was optijd en ook alle baggage was compleet bij aankomst! YES!!! Super leuk..in het vliegtuig hadden we kleine schermpjes voor ons waar je echt vanalles met kon doen!! films, muziek maar ook spelletjes en tvseries echt super leuk!! gewoon niet genoeg tijd om alles te doen! hahaha!! maar goed dus aangekomen in Atlanta...daarna door naar panama....vlucht was ook prima (geen toffe schermpje helaas). Bij aankomst werden we(aafke en ik) opgehaald door Allen (de begeleider van Aafke) waarbij we ook gingen slapen die nacht! inmiddels super gaar stappen we de auto in en rijden naar Gamboa (buitenwijk ... read more

After leaving Tortuguero, we hopped a bus down to Puerto Viejo and spent a couple days here dodging drug dealers and other equally repulsive lowlifes such as bad smelling hippies hawking necklaces. We got out of there pretty quickly. We crossed the border into Panama across a rickity old train bridge (pictured) which was fun. It reminded me of the illegal bridge crossing that must be done after rafting the upper Animas, but Ten High was not involved. Panama has been great! Nice people, cheap food, the best beer so far (Panama cerveza its called), and incredible islands. We took a small boat out to the large island of Bocas Del Toro on the caribbean side of Panama. It is part of a large archipeligo of beautiful and remote islands. Liz and I set up shop ... read more

Hello eveyone, Here is a big hello from Panama, well a small island called Bocas Del Torro. It is very relaxed and hot here. Which means i am very chilled out buut slightly burnt!!! I did rememeber my hat but Dave forgot to remind me a bout my sun lotion. I am not sure how much i can blame on him these days... Well since my last installment, we (a group of us that keeps getting smaller from Raleigh) have been travelling together. After finishing up at field base we all travelled by bus to a beach town called Chauita, it is great and is Famous for producing a coconut rum. We spent two days there relaxing in the sun, pool and eating beautiful sea food before moving a little further down the coast to a ... read more

After Puerto Viejo, we headed down to the next country south called Panama. We waited in the immagration line in the boiling sun for over an hour we were piled onto a mini bus and taken to a river boat. Here we were told though that the boat was full and there were no more till late that afternoon. Somehow within a few minuites we were in another car which took us over a mountain full of banana plantations and finally made it on another boat to the islands off Bocas Del Torro. Bocas Del torro is a group of islands of the caribbean coast. A small boy Migel who was 11 years old saw us looking a little confused on the main island ended up organising in about 2 seconds for a boat to take ... read more

Hi! Dan is feeling better :) We spent the last 4 days in Bocas del Torro, which is a cluster of islands on the Carribean side of Panama. I really like this town. We stayed at a great little place called Cocomo on the Sea and they had kayaks for us to use whenever we wanted. One day we kayaked around the island and out to "the pointe" where Dan had fun in the huge waves. One day we ventured to a beach called Starfish Beach. We had to take a taxi to a certain part of the island and walk through some jungle and mangrove areas to the beach. There were many huge starfish! It was pretty cool. There were some really good restaurants in Bocas. Our favorite is called Buena Vista. They have ... read more