Blogs from Bocas Del Toro, Panama, Central America Caribbean - page 30

Hey... So a last minute desicion landed me in Panama and I am glad I went. Panama is one of the most beautiful countries ever; the people, the landscapes, the 50cent beers, and amazing beautiful waves. Total I spent about 11 days in Panama starting in Bocas Del Toro for about 5 days, crusing to the Panama canal, which for those who dont know is nothing but a very large canal, so basically if you have seen a small canal elsewhere, just imagine it bigger and thats how the Panama canal is; then to Santa Catalina for some more surfing, then a 12 hour bus ride back to San Jose CR to barely make it back in time to catch my flight home. But what a mini adventure, I will be back to spend more time ... read more

(Editor's note--that means me-- I am transcribing these notes several weeks later on a day when a family emergency had given me one entirely sleepless night and several nights of troubled sleep. My mindset is about what it was on this morning on Bocas when I got out of bed.) Prickly. That is the word that came to mind when I staggered into the shower from that hard pallet of torture. If the bed wasn't bad enough, then the malfunctioning A/C was. At midnight I turned that pounding,clanging monster off, climbed up on a chair, wrestled with a window that hadn't been cracked open for who knows how long, draped the curtains over the window and took a breath of fresh air. Dang. Woke up every dog in the neighborhood. Boys, I know just how you ... read more

I have not written in a few days because we packed up from the main island, Isla Colon, and then took a boat over to the roadless island of Bastimientos, which is so much better than what we have been dealing with. I have a room that sits over the ocean in a thatched roof hut, you can open up the wooden barndoor-like windows and gaze out across the bay to a variety of small, sparcely inhabited islands. The weather has been great, and most days we take a ridiculous jungle trek across the island to one of the beaches- usually about an hour's walk through knee-deep(not kidding) mud and water, with the trail disappearing and re appearing at random. There is an amazing beach with great body surfing that we usually go to, Wizard's beach, ... read more

Its´s been a while, but want to fill in the missing gap of my travels. After a great Christmas in Puerto Viejo in Costa Rica, I continued traveling south on the 27th of december. With some great people I met, I continued traveling to Bocas de Torro, some island on the caribian side of Panama. We had a great boatride through mangroves and the last part, the ocean where we arrived at Bocas... Some lovely islands where we enjoyed ourselves whith trying to surf (on too low waves), dolphin whatching, island hopping and for the rest hanging out in a relaxed hostel with a lot of other travelers. For new years we went to a bar (the sunken ship...) realy cool place an outdoor place build above the water with in the middle a sunken ship ... read more

GREETING ALL: ALL I HAVE TO SAY IS WOW!!! BOCAS DEL TORO IS A REALLY NICE CITY. THERE ARE SO MANY AMAZING THINGS TO BUY FROM THE VENDORS IN THE STREET. I HAVE JUST ABOUT WHEN CRAZY, BECAUSE YOU KNOW HOW I LIKE TO SHOP. BUT ANYWAYS THE CLUB HERE WAS OFF THE HOOK! PEOPLE REALLY DANCE IN THE CLUBS HERE. I DANCED WITH THIS ONE BROTHER AND LET ME TELL YOU HE COULD MOVE. THE CLUB WAS REALLY NICE WITH A SEA FRONT VIEW. THE BROTHER I DANCED WITH WAS A SCUBA DIVER INSTRUCTOR AND I TOLD HIM I DIDN'T KNOW HOW TO SWIM AND I WANTED LESSONS. WE ENDED UP GOING TO THE BEACH AND GETTING IN THE WATER IT WAS SO NICE AND WARM. SIMPLY AMAZING. I TOLD MYSELF I WOULD GET INTO ... read more