San Blas Islands, Panama Travel Blogs

Sailing around the worlds most beautiful beaches..
Jul 16, 2007 (29 photos)

... , which on our second to last day decided to flood all over my feet with you know what in it - nice - not! The San Blas islands were beautiful, in fact there are no words to describe how stunning they actually are. White powdery sands, hoards of fish, ...

Boat trip to Colombia
Jul 26, 2007 (31 photos)

... sleeping like sardines in the port the first night one guyed bailed and another girl got so sick she had to fly to Panama from the San Blas Islands.  Even then 8 backpackers on a 40 ft boat was a tight fit but we eventually got use to it. & ...

Paradise in the Carribean
Dec 12, 2006

Upon arrival at the San Blas islands, I decided to sleep up on deck under the stars.  It was an awesome night, and the boat had finally stopped rocking.  When the near full moon came up at midnight, I could see I was gunna enjoy this, but nothing ...

San Blas Islands, Panama, 24 -28th Oct 2007
Oct 24, 2007 (22 photos)

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San Blas Islands
Nov 4, 2009 (9 photos)

De boot stopte op het eiland El Porvenir waar we de stempel moesten halen om toegang te krijgen tot de San Blas Islands. We werden ontvangen door dolfijnen in de baai, de zon scheen, het water was super helder en blauw...en het was er prachtig!! Umberto, ...

Voyage to Colombia
Nov 12, 2007 (30 photos)

... there´s no road, there´s two options, you can fly or for more or less the same price you can sail there via the San Blas Islands. Obviously I was going to go for the second option. The trip started at 5.30am with an early morning 4wd pick up. We were then ...

Sailing Adventure through 365 incredible Islands
Jul 4, 2009 (40 photos)

San Blas
Mar 6, 2009

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Fly to San Blas Islands
Jun 30, 2005

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Robinson Crusoe missed the point...
Jul 14, 2009 (18 photos)

...by going to the Pacific. The San Blas Islands were the ultimate slimy poster that was still missing from our bedroom wall (a bedroom is missing, too): the early morning sun roasted our bodies relaxing in the white sand, while ...

'Franks & Beans' on the Stahlratte
Sep 3, 2009 (28 photos)

... in Yantup, our bunk beds on the 40 meter Stahratte were pure luxury. We spent the next four days sailing through San Blas and enjoying a few more incredibly beautiful tropical islans, snorkeling, swimming and relaxing, and BBQing on the beach. Most of the ...

San Blas - Kuna Yala And My Pirate Dreams.
Apr 5, 2008 (31 photos)

... as those in Colombia. I could go on about this forever but then I wouldn't get to write about how extraordinarily picturesque the San Blas Islands were as we sailed up to them on our third day in the open sea. First off, our sailboat trip up to this ...

The Archipielago de San Blas, Rat Eats My Backpack
Dec 22, 2007 (63 photos)

... City after spending three dream days in the Archipelago de San Blas in the Caribbean Sea. Many of the nearly 400 islands of San Blas are real Fantasy Island- type settings meaning un-inhabited islands covered by coconut trees and ringed by white sand ...

Gulf of San Blas
Jun 7, 2008 (23 photos)

... are taking the sea route and paying $640 to Captain Mark to take the two of us from Cartagena to the San Blas Islands off the coast of Panama. His boat is christened the Melody; a 44 ft. steel hulled homemade sail boat. Mark bought the unfinished boat ...

San Blas Islands
Dec 15, 2008 (10 photos)

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The Kuna People
Nov 26, 2005 (19 photos)

Wow...what a place!! Absolutely loved it. We flew from Panama city (Pacific side)to the caribbean side to the San Blas Islands....took about 20 minutes in a very small plane. There are about 300 small islands many are inhabited, but many are not. The ...

Sailing from Panama to Colombia
Jun 1, 2008 (35 photos)

... up and set sail at 6.30 in the morning , cruising & sailing for most of the day to get to El Porvenir in the San Blas islands which is where all our passports were stamped out of Panama. San Blas is a group of 365 islands running for 200km along the ...

Taking it easy in the San Blas
May 29, 2009 (24 photos)

... City on the pacific to the the San Bl as islands on the Caribbean side and our port of exit. The San Blas are a group of 400 Caribbean islands owned and controlled by an indigenous race called the kunas. The Islands are totally undeveloped with no hotels, ...

It's a Kuna Life
Mar 24, 2007

The San Blas Archipelago is what you imagined Caribbean islands to be: deserted sand islands the size of country backyards, home to the lazily bowing trunks of tall palm trees swaying in the gentle breeze, white sand beaches scattered with ...

a slice of paradise
Nov 2, 2007 (5 photos)

this one is really for the photos when i get them together.   the islands are a little slice of paradise that jason and i thought was beyond our pocket books.  never in our dreams did we think that a small unihabited island with nothing ...

Central America
Nov 25, 2005

... it's own respectably. We set sail the next morning and sailed out to Coco Banderas, a small group of Islands in the Panamanian San Blas archipelago. They are unbelievably cute, postcard islands that consist entirely of a ring of white sand around a few ...

Paradise Ne'er Found
Aug 13, 2009 (61 photos)

... thought those islands only existed in movies like The Beach or Blue Lagoon, that is, until we got to the San Blas Islands on the caribbean coast of Panama. The archipelago is made up of about 370 islands, some only big enough to have one palm tree on its ...

Kuna Yala (San Blas Islands)
Aug 6, 2009 (13 photos)

Kuna Yala (San Blas Islands)

Previous Trips
Dec 2, 2007

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Land ahoy! Its Central America!
Jul 11, 2009 (14 photos)

... fella so we left him be and headed back to the boat. That evening we sailed to the immigration control office of the San Blas to get our Panama entry stamps, and we feasted on crayfish and giant crab bought from the local Kuna fishermen at US$12 for 11 ...

San Blas
Nov 26, 2008

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San Blas Islands, Panama
Jul 2, 2006

San Blas Islands, Panama

The ultimate Carribean...
Aug 7, 2006

... he found out the coordinates from other sailors... Also another safety point, one capitan, 3 days non stop sailing from San Blas to Cartagena. The man needs to sleep. He had computerised navigation equipment, but pity about that container ship we were ...

Arrival in San Blas Islands
Dec 31, 2006 (4 photos)

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