Blogs from Boquete, Chiriquí, Panama, Central America Caribbean - page 8

Greetings from Boquete! We stayed on a few extra days at Lost and Found pushing our departure to Sunday. Kendrick has been feeling feverish so we stayed an extra night to help him recover. We got a ride to David from Andrew and said our goodbyes to Duncan. A lot of goodbyes in the last week... Our time at Lost and Found was well spent. We didn't plan the ne treasure hunt, but we certainly helped out. We spent a lot of time around the hostel, basically running the place, it was a lot of fun. The location was stellar. Clouds literally swept through the place. We had some parties and some very mellow times. The cooking and creativity were off the charts. We ate a lot. I made bread for the first time, and it ... read more

Mark and I just left Boquete this morning after a delightful 5 nights there. It is well-named as the city of Eternal Spring--at 3500' elevation at the foot of Volcano Baru, it's climate is refreshing. And clearly it is well-adapted to living things...birds, flowers, citrus, avocados, papaya, banana, coffee, coconuts. We enjoyed the Independence Day parade, a couple garden visits, an animal rescue place, a coffee tour, a canopy tour with zipline high above the cloud forest floor, good food, and really enjoyed meeting friends of my brother Don, who have an Artisan Concrete business. I'm new at blogging, so bear with me; I'm hoping the third try is successful :o), Susie... read more

Boquete was one of those destinations which was not really planned on our itinerary, it more or less came into it the night before. Justin and I were having dinner with Arie and Stephan, and they invited us to join them to go to Boquete. Since we knew we could cut costs, and were planning on getting out of Boca Brava after one night anyway, we decided to join them. Besides, going to a coffee growing region was on our to do list. It boiled down to one of those joys of travel, the change in itinerary based on who you meet and where they are going. Another aspect that can change travel and which is not necessarily a joy is the weather. It started to rain while we were on the bus from David (as ... read more

Hallo meine Lieben Ja, wir haben noch einige wunderschöne Tage in Bocas del Toro verbracht. Wahren dann auch wirklich noch tauchen, was super viel Spass gebracht hat. Unser Hostal war schoen, sauber, mit eigenem Bad und TV. Leider hatten wir aber einige unangeneheme mitbewohner, welche wir vorallem in der Kueche immer wieder angetroffen haben. Ein mit Drogen so was von ueberladener Amerikaner, der mit seiner Machete und seiner Steinschleuder nicht unbedingt das Gefühl von Sicherheit vermittelt hat. Einiges haben wir erlebt mit ihm, seiner Frau und seinem Sohn, was doch arg beängstigend war, dass wir froh waren, nicht dabei sein zu muessen, als die ganze Situtation eskaliert ist und der Typ mit seiner Machete auf seine Frau los ist und ihr schlussendlich mit der Steinschleuder einen Stein ins Gesicht gepeffert hat aus ca 1m Entfernung, sodass ... read more

On 2/6 we had a delightful time. We went up to the mountain town of Boquete again and found a private home with an incredible garden that we could tour. It must have been an acre of the most manicured garden in Panama. There were six ponds with hundreds of Kio of every color. We wanted to go snorkeling, but the wind had been blowing so hard for the last three days the idea of being on the water didn’t sound like fun. After the garden, we found an animal rescue shelter that also had very nice gardens. But with monkeys, birds, parrots, an otter cat (not the technical name) that will grow up to be four feet long and two adorable Ocelot kittens. Rebecca spent an hour talking to a couple of Hiaasen McCaw’s and ... read more