San Blas, Mexico Travel Blogs

Pacific Coast Mexico
Oct 25, 2001 (2 photos)

... blasting "Californiacation" by the Red Hot Chilly Peppers, I enjoy the scenery of the Mexican Pacific Coast. First stop was San Blas, a fishing village, we stayed overnight. Then on to Sayulita, which is full of Gringos escaping northern winters. Mexico ...

Swimming with the fishes
Oct 10, 2008

... joined her in a dunking of about 3 minutes before exiting as could see shrimp like beasties gathering round my feet. San Blas nightlife, apparently quite rocking in high season, was as dead as the La Tovara style doorknockers. However we were entertained ...

Welcome to the Jungle Baby!
Jul 3, 2008 (9 photos)

... in progress...this was a fierce campaign for state superintendant.     The yellow flag was for a candidate from San Blas and representing the PAN party (same as Vicente Fox), the blue flag is for his rival from a neighboring town ...

L'archipel des San Blas et les Indiens Kuna FR/EN
Mar 6, 2006 (11 photos)

Nous arrivons à l'aube dans l'archipel des San Blas après une nuit de navigation. L'intention de départ était d'aller sur Porvenir pour faire notre Zarpe (permis de navigation) mais le cap a été meilleur que prévu et le progrès aussi donc notre première escale est ...

san blas islands
May 22, 2007

good times

Relax at Robinson Island
Feb 18, 2009 (3 photos)

Na ostrove jsme si byli zasnorchlovat na koralove utesy. Vecer to tady celkem zije. Mistni zde prodavaji pro kluky a holky pivo, neco zeleneho a kokosove orechy. Meli jsme vzdy jednoduchou snidani, obed a veceri. Obed a vecere se skladala z ryby / rybi ...

Panama - San Blas Islands
Apr 18, 2006 (5 photos)

The Kuna Indians that inhabit the 400 plus islands off the carribean coast of Panama are the 2nd smallest people in the world...at last I have found my people. The flight over to the island of El Porvenir afforded us amazing views of the archipeligo ...

I Do Sports at Robinson ;)
Feb 19, 2009 (5 photos)

Abych se trochu dostal do formy, rozhodl jsem se pojmout pobyt na ostrove take sportovne ;). Takze jsem klukum a holkam predcvicoval yogu za usvitu slunce, behal kolem ostrove, byl si zaplavat na dalsim ostrove nebo jen tak pozorval vodni morsky ...

Still in San Blas
Jun 2, 2006 (10 photos)

Still here... eating kilos of shrimp (1 kilo=2.2lbs= 100 pesos) fresh mangoes and avocados. Tacos are 10cents. We are in heaven! Met a couple of kooks. Took one canadian kook aka Dave to a waterfall with us yesterday. 80+foot water fall, crystal clear ...

San Blas
Mar 24, 2008 (20 photos)

 

It's Kuna Time
May 1, 2009

Hello everyone. Mark and I have just got back from the San Blas islands, off the north side of Panama. They are comprised of about 400 little islands sprinkled in the sea, and are home to the Kuna Yala tribe, descended from Incas, and a separate ...

Playa Amor and San Blas
Mar 27, 2008

... , told us about a place in San Blas where they had previously bought some great pork chops, so we made a pleasant trip into nearby San Blas. We bought some fruit and tomatoes from a street vendor for real cheap, then met up with Martin and Judy at a small ...

I am Popeye the Sailor Man!
May 10, 2009

... 20 minutes on that boat.  :)  The journey was rough but the destination was quite spectacular.  The San Blas Archipelago are gorgeous beyond words.  A combination of 365 islands with only a small handful inhabited... make for a ...

Robinson Island in Archipelago de San Blas
Feb 17, 2009 (3 photos)

Nebylo to v mem planu, nicmene jsem hodne rad, ze jsem svuj plan mohl zmenit. Ostatne od toho plany jsou. ;) Ostrovy San Blas jsou unikatnim mistem na teto planete. Jedna se o ostrovy, kde ziji mistni domorodi obyvatele a pronajimaji sve jednoduche chyse ...

A few more days relaxing in the sun...
May 19, 2008

We arrived about 3PM, got off the air condidtioned bus and stepped into a pretty intense heat. This place is a bit off the beaten track and has a nice "small town" feel about it. The prices are noticably cheaper than in Puerto Rico and the beach is ...

Sandflies, scorpion bites and flying crucifixes.
Feb 1, 2008

San Blas is a quiet little fishing village...usually. When it's a bank holiday weekend, and the town fiestas are on, San Blas is a crazy place. We camped near the beach, in the carpark of a beachfront restaurant and I christened my hammock/mosquito net. ...

Durango-San Blas
May 31, 2006 (15 photos)

... definitely taking midday siestas between 11 and 3pm- it is too hot and there is little shade on the beach to do anything else. San Blas is a town of around 9000 people. There are some friendly ones and a lot of not so friendly ones. Surprisingly, the ...

paradise
Dec 24, 2004 (19 photos)

i have just spent the past 1o days in the for real paradise. off the beaten track is no where close to where i have been here are some photos and ill update you later. im freaking out with blissful happiness. i have found what it means to live. i am meant ...

Archipiélago de San Blas
May 27, 2007 (26 photos)

... I said, most of them are little pieces of paradise.  If you close your eyes and imagine a Caribbean delight....that is San Blas.  After dropping off a few passengers who had to quickly catch flights, the captain set sail for one of the secluded ...

San Blas Islands
Apr 28, 2007

Sailing to Colombia

San Blas
May 19, 2008

... more relaxed now, partly as we are by the sea, partly as we know the journey is nearly over and partly because we just love Mexico and we feel a lot safer here. There is not much to do in this little seaside town, but the people are really friendly and ...

San Blas Islands
Apr 28, 2007

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Welcome to Kuna Yala
Jan 14, 2008

Kuna Yala (San Blas) stetches from the Gulf of Kuna Yala (find THAT on your map) eastward to the Columbian border. There are 360 islands but only about 40 are inhabited. Formerly of Columbia, the Kuna Indians have lived here for hundreds of years. The men ...

San Blas
Jul 6, 2005 (18 photos)

... , Ik ben vanmorgen teruggekomen van 1 van mijn laatste uitjes in Panama. Zondag vertrok ik samen met William (Verenigde Staten) naar San Blas en vandaag zijn we weer terug gekomen naar de stad. San Blas is een provincie aan de Caribische Zee in het ...

Good food, Good surf, VERY healthy jejenes
Apr 22, 2008

jejene: noun. meaning: little bastard: aka:No-see-ums aka:Biting Midges.                         theres lots of them here   ...

Visited Diablo island part of the San Blas
Jan 24, 2009 (3 photos)

Today we were taken by boat to Diablo island, the sea was quite choppy today and we were soaking wet but the time we arrived at the island, it was no problem because the sun is shining and its really hot! During the boat journey we passed many other ...

Pelican island
Jan 25, 2009 (9 photos)

We went to another island today called pelican island, this is the smallest island we have visited so far and equally as beautiful, this one would take about 2 mintues to walk around.  Another day of relaxing and snorkelling. We had decided to stay ...

Travelled to San Blas
Jan 23, 2009 (5 photos)

Today we were picked up at 5.00 am to travel to the San Blas islands, we travelled by jeep fro about 2hrs and some of the terrain was pretty bumpy and muddy, we were glad to be in a big jeep.  The scenery on route was beautiful, lovely views and ...

Time to go back to the city
Jan 26, 2009 (4 photos)

... take us back to the village (on the original island that we stayed on) and then onto Panama city.  We were sad to leave the San Blas but really needed a good shower and get rid of all the sand. On the journey back we saw a sloth in the tree near the ...

Boat trip
Aug 15, 2008 (43 photos)

... , but we saw so much more that way. The owners of the boat (a french man and venezuelian woman) accepted to take us to San Blas, an archipelago situated at the north of Panamá. We were five passengers, us 2 and two french brothers and sisters, and a an ...