Isla Bastimentos, Panama Travel Blogs

Jungle Island Fun!
Jul 15, 2007

... white sand, driftwood, crabs and coconuts! Was awesome! Left there yesterday and took a boat over to the island Bastimentos nearby where all the houses are rickety clampboard structures, most over the water on stilts. Proper Caribbean town, everyone is ...

New Years with a Caribbean Flavour
Dec 30, 2008 (9 photos)

... maybe better on every level. However you have to balance that against peace of mind knowing that we have a place peak season in Panama´s tourist hot spot...Bocas Del Toro. The boat out to Isla Colon, the main hub of the Bocas Islands, was great fun. ...

Happy One Week anniversary to US!!!!
Jul 4, 2009 (4 photos)

... day before heading to Bocas Town to hook up with Gregorio at the house we're renting near Salt Creek on the other side of Bastimentos. In between trying to escape the rain and the army ants, we decided to go to the local Ngobe restaurant and school to get ...

A little Goose
Jul 3, 2009 (6 photos)

Our stay at La Loma on Isla Bastimentos couldn't have been better. It was absolutely mind blowing.  We got to the area via a small puddle jumper plane with about a 45 minute ride from Panama City.  The airport is located in a small hippy/boaters ...

Bests & Worsts & other random info
Aug 21, 2009 (3 photos)

... . It was good and not unfamiliar as I'd eaten it as a kid. Worst part of trip: Bus trip(s) from Nicaragua through Costa Rica into Panama. Hardest part of traveling through CA: For me, it's arriving in a new city or country when you get off a bus or plane ...

No power, but a starfish
Jul 5, 2009 (5 photos)

We left La Loma with the rest of our group as they were all heading to town or back to Panama City. We were running late and were about an hour and a half behind when we met up with Gregorio, the caretaker of the house we rented.  He wasn't ...

Yummy Thai
Jul 6, 2009 (3 photos)

... Gregorio took us to "Bastimentos" which is called Old Bank to us non locals.  This is kind of the “city” on Isla Bastimentos.  It’s got music thumping all the live long day and night, a lot of poverty and a lot of trash.  ...

"No won wan leave Bastimentos"
Jul 9, 2009 (7 photos)

Isla Bastimentos is the second Island in the Bocas Del Toro Archipelago.  A 15 minute boat ride for Isla Colon took us to the Islands only town Old Bank.  With no transport on the Island there really is no need to extend from the sand path that ...

Happy 29th to me...
Jul 11, 2009 (2 photos)

... that the rum should be pouring alongside a ice cold mixer of Canada Dry. At 4.30 I was treated to a "happy birthday" Bastimentos style.  The Jaguar, our landlord on the keys, his brother on vocals, Maya the boatman on Bongo drum and Francis with his ...

huts on stilts!
Nov 30, 2009 (11 photos)

... that we saw in pictures. . . so we smartly hopped on a boat (aka water taxi) and bumped for 10 minutes to a nearby island. Isla Bastimentos has no roads, no cars, no banks, no pharmacy. . . what does it have?  1 long cement sidewalk that is a total ...

Panama
Aug 11, 2008 (11 photos)

Panama Bocas Del Toro -Isla Bastimentos (8-11.8.) Saavuimme viidakkoon Costa Rican kautta, nukkuen yhden yon Caribian meren rannalla Puerto Viejossa sateen aina vaan yltyessa, kuultuamme sen jatkuneen jo 8 -paivaa teimme paatoksen liikkua etelaan, ...

What do you do on a rainy day in Bocas?
Aug 24, 2009 (10 photos)

Get on a boat and take a diving/snorkeling tour of the islands, of course!! And so we did.  We met the boat at 9am this morning just up the street from our hotel at Bocas Water Sports.  There we got our gear and chatted with the local ...