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Boquete Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Boquete, Panama
Cool cool mountain air
This is a top pick! ... bucks. According to things we read in Boquete, in the 90s when Kona coffee was all the rage, a number of people exported Boquete coffee to Hawaii and repackaged it as Kona, at a massive profit. They were eventually apprehended, and the locals now ...
Boquete - Misty
This is a top pick! ... , some farmers. The market was filled with families all scrubbed and in their best outfits - big day in the big town! Boquete was on my 'maybe' list of places to retire so I am happy to have come up and seen it. Just too cold for ...
Things I don't like on this trip, or even hate.
This is a top pick! ... (in the city of David) with Ben and Steve. We have more or less just finished the seven hours hike from Guadalupe to Boquete, known as Sendero de los Quetzales (the Quetzal trail.) It's a beautiful hike through cloud forest and Volcan Baru National Park. ...
Up in the Mountains
This is a top pick! ... long and BOOOOOORRRRRING. We are both sick of sitting after that and the long plane rides, so we are planning to stay in Boquete for a few days. This morning we went to a finca (plantation) that grows and roasts coffee. Supposedly some of the best in ...
Another Border Crossing!
This is a top pick! ... Viejo, minibus with 4 Danes and two Israilis to the border.....walk from Costa Rica across a very rickety bridge at Sixalo into Panama - no muss, no fuss.... It definitely was quicker and easier than our previous crossing at the much bigger ...
Thinking of Manuel
This is a top pick! ... officers, machine guns hanging from their shoulders, snickered and laughed at the official's earnest but sad attempt. The town of Boquete, Panama is in a narrow valley in the central highlands (1000 metres). If a perfect climate exists, it's in ...
Five Best Ways to Leave it All Behind
This is a top pick! If you blinked you probably missed it! Of course, it also helps if you live in Canada's Capital and read the Ottawa Citizen. Tucked away on page J04 of Saturday's Travel and Leisure Section "Best-of-the- Year Lists" it was probably very easy to overlook. ...
Mountains and Coffee
This is a top pick! ... dusk and we were not as far along as we had hoped, we crossed river after river and soon enough we walked into Boquete just as darkness had fallen. Exhausted we visited the big supermarket in the square and bought some soft drinks before heading back ...
Coquette Boquete
This is a top pick! Well, we´re on our way and slowly but surely we´re approaching that backpacking state of mind... Boquete is only adding to our sanity with cool weather and lots of choices. After Santa Fe and Santa Catalina with no internet, you will be happy to know ...
This is a top pick! 
Shopping, more horses, and rain.... lots of rain!
... ; WOW….this place was beautiful and weird all at the same time. It was kind of like the Heidleburg of Panama. They used junk items all throughout the gardens for pots and architecture….which was very cool…but here comes the ...
To Boquete and Beyond!
... . Our taxi eventually arrived and we fell into it, so grateful for the heater as the weather in Boquete is a lot cooler than anywhere else in Panama. To avoid injury to our wounded pride for not listening to Pancho's sound advice, we snuck in ...
Coffee snob
I am now officially a coffee snob. Took a tour around a beautiful coffee farm in the shady green hills of Boquete, i think one of the top retirement destinations. And you can see why. It wouldn´t be out of place in the alps of france or switzerland, ...
Aventuras con cuerdas
... felt pretty quick! Aside from the ziplining I also wanted to climb up Volcán Banú, which is a volcano situated very close to Boquete and it's summit allows (on a clear day) views of both the Caribbean Sea and the Pacific Ocean. I had heard that ...
Panama es muy bonito
... to write another tomorrow when I am well rested and fresh. The journey here was crazy and full of things I can laugh at now- but I feel very lucky to be in Panama and think it is such a beautiful country. I will write as much as I can about it ...
Climbing and Halloween in Boquete!
... . It's the small things when you are away from home that give you comfort. And they tasted soooooo gooooooood! So, Boquete is this really cute mountain town where a lot of tourists go to do all of the outdoorsy things like hiking, whitewater ...
Rio Sereno border crossing
... our passports, we gave him some Kleenex and a bottle of eye drops for his allergies, and then he offered to visit us in Boquete with his wife and cook us a true Panamanian meal. We were a little surprised by this but we exchanged phone numbers and ...
What a difference a flight makes!!!!
As previously mentioned we had changed our plans and were no longer going to drive back the 8 hours to Alto Boquete, our base. We had booked flights, It was a pleasure to arrive in under an hour no stress, we even had the chance to call at the ...
HORSE RIDE INTO THE HILLS
... of the top four places to live outside America". A “Panamanian Shangri-La”, “ the picturesque village of Boquete..” Now you cannot deny that the town is surrounded by steep slopes of lush vegetation, flowers of every ...
REFUGE, RAIN AND FOOTIE
... tour (we had come earlier to avoid the rain!) so it was a bit of a whistle wind tour. We then ambled to Boquete to watch the European Championship – InterMilan v Barcelona. Quite honestly if it was not pee’ing with rain and ...
New Years in Misty Boquete
... . After a relatively short bus ride, an hour and a half or so, we were dropped off in central park of the misty town of Boquete. We found it extremely refreshing to be back in the highlands. The air was very cool and there was a lot of moisture in the ...
San Jose, Manuel Antonio, San Isidro and Boquete
... and rewarded his entreprenuership). From there it was a quick jump to David and a very loud and crammed bus ride to Boquete (complete with loud music, flashing lights, and feathered boas). We were greeted by Pancho who just happened to be the owner ...
Lost & Found Eco-lodge
Hello avid readers! So we departed Boquete having made exciting sandwiches for our excursion to the Lost and Found hostel in the Fortuna Reserve. We had booked a tour with 2 American girls and it was to take us to some hot springs, petroglyphs and a ...
Boquete - Day 1
ANother lazy start to the day. Went for a run in the "neighborhood" first thing. Gorgeous morning. House is next door to multiple coffee plantations (fincas). Running from the house up the fist hill my chest was pounding, I forgot the elevation was at ...
Boquete tales
... if we hear a horn blow, we think, oh my gosh, what did I do wrong, or where´s the potential crash situation. In Panama, just driving down the street, most drivers are blowing or tooting car horns. It can mean: Watch out, I´m coming through, ...
un village suisse
Le passage de frontiere entre le Costa Rica et le Panama nous permet de rencontrer le proprietaire canadien de la Bolita, un petit centre de tourisme situe juste a cote du parc Corcovado. Ce monsieur nous conseille le Mamallena backpackers et c est la bas ...
Second Week in Boquete
... I plan to visit, the Embera in the Darien province (famous for their baskets that hold water), and the Gnobe Bugle around Boquete. The indigenous Gnobe are everywhere here. The women and girls wear very colorful dresses, but the men dress like other ...
By plane and bus to Boguete, Chiriqui Province,
Our trip from Panama City to Boquete involved a taxi, a one hour plane ride, another taxi, and a one hour bus ride. We started in the AM in Panama City. The national Airport is Albrook, the former US airbase in the Canal Zone. We had never flown on ...
travelling to panama
Hey panama was GREAT. We met my cousin at 5:15 but we where planing on arriving at 3:00. The border was TERIBEL so we arrived late. We went out to diner with her. The next day we went to the beach named Playa Barranquilla. Then when Thursday came ...