Blogs from Archipielago de San Blas, Kuna Yala, Panama, Central America Caribbean - page 8

At 7pm on Tuesday 22nd November, after 10 hours spent waiting for our paperwork to be stamped by one official, signed by another who would be "back in 10 minutes", witnessed by someone who was currently away on vacation, signed by someone else, and finally copied, stamped and returned by the official head of the Officious Officials only in the minutes between 3:23pm and 3:27pm whilst both reciting 'the Officious Officials Official Statute' and smoking a ceremonial pipe, our high seas adventure began. Those present were yours truly, Jessie (see previous blog entry), Johannes (a German), Drew (an American), Andre (another American), Captain Hernando (aka El Capitan and 'that massive pain in the arse' by the end of the journey) and our trusty stead, 'Marie-Jo' (a 31 foot sailing boat). The skies that had been shedding ... read more

The following two days we went to other islands, going through some of the most beautiful landscapes I had seen. Islands with indian huts, the ocean so transparent that one could see the coral reefs at the bottom and green mountains on our right side. We had meals cooked by the locals, fresh lobster and fish. Phil was making the best of his British humor, Ross and Greg were reading most of the time, Paul was snorkling (he agreed to snorkle the way between two islands, but it turned out being a lot farther than he had thought), Eva was looking cute and Sjoerd was sleeping. Sjoerd was sick and slept most of the time during the 5 days. After three days in paradise we left for Cartagena, which was only 200 miles away. On the ... read more

Well, IM BACK! Weeee!! Such a nice relaxing weekend. I flew out early in the morning from Panama on Friday. Three others from the hostel I was staying at were going for the weekend as well, but it was a surprize for one of the girls birthday from her boyfriend. So even as we flew in the plane she still had no idea where in the heck we were going, but what a nice surprize! I ended up staying at a hotel called Hotel San Blas on an inhibited island. Everyday we would all get up and have tea and coffie for breakfast, maybe some eggs, and then get in the boat and take a 40 min ride to some little uninhibited islands. So dang beautiful. The first day we went to an island called Dog ... read more