Blogs from Bocas Del Toro, Panama, Central America Caribbean - page 31

If you ever needed something to spark you from normality this has to be it....This picture is the view from out the corridor of our room and two steps out onto the balcony....all for $20 per night between 4 of us. Gold. A few beers out here on the balcony and it makes you wonder why people enjoy going on planned trips and organised tours...silly stuff. Anyway... So we are in this place called Isla Colon which is in part of an area of Panama called Bocas del Toro which means mouth of the bull. Its a chilled out town with 3 streets full of carribean flavour...and smell. You can see the bottom of the ocean with ease and the resturant owners catch their own lobster for the nights trade. More on that later.... Lately has ... read more

We went to visit San Cristobal where my friend Julie worked and lived. A boat driver, Sabedro (sorry if it´s spelled wrong) nickname America Central, took us to visit and stay at his house. He has a room set aside for tourists that has 2 beds and a door that locks. I forgot to mention to Elaine that there are few latrines in San Cristobal. She was a bit shocked but more on that later. We arrived at 5pm after a day in Bocas and at Red fRog Beach. When we arrived we sat and visited with the family and learned that many people had stayed at his house. His daughter brought out the family parrot, Pedro, and we chatted some more. I translated for Elaine. He had all kinds of stories to tell. About 9 ... read more

This will probably be the last entry from Panama. We leave on Thrusday 31st to head back for Costa Rica. We have had some lovely days - trips out with Claudio, the owner of Hotel Angela where we are staying. We were supposed to do a trip on the Catamaran and had it booked for Monday. But when we arrived they told us the boat was booked out by a group of Outreach kids. So we were OK with than and re-arranged the trip for today (Tuesday). But this morning it was raining very heavily and when we got to the Catamaran office the girl told us the trip was cancelled. Well, needless to say we were a bit annoyed. We were asking for our deposit back and the girl got annoyed with us for being ... read more

Took one of the day trips with Transparente Tours to Dolphin Bay, Crawl Cay, RedFrog Beach and Hospital Point. First stop is Dolphin Bay where you are almost guaranteed to see Dolphins. They were in playful mood so we saw loads of them. They love to surf the waves behind the boats and two of them obliged us with a spectacular jump out of the water. On to Crawl Cay for snorkeling. We had to get over the side of the boat and there was a strong current so it was hard work to stay near enough to the boat. But the water wasn't too deep and we saw some lovely Coral and colourful fish. Then we had lunch in a restaurant built over the water. There were hammocks on the deck to relax in before ... read more

Im just doing this for myself, oh and you too I guess, so I have all my trips on here. So bear with me and the next 3 blogs I do from 2004/2005. I spent a little over a month in Bocas del Toro taking spanish lessons and scuba diving. I hit up a few other places also including the San Blas Islands on the Caribbean coast which still to this day was the most sureal place I have been. Also Boquette which is in the mountains and also pretty special. My camera was stolen on Isla Basimentos and I lost a lot of pics so some of these pics were not taken by me. ... read more