San Blas
Travel Blogs from San Blas, Panama
Ave Maria - The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
... the Ave Maria. Thirty hours after leaving Cartagena, through darkness and daylight we did all safely arrive in the beautiful San Blas Islands of Panama. There are are 360 islands in the group and they're occupied and administered by the Kuna Indians. Some ...
The tropical odyssey comes to an end...
... my adventure in Nueva Espana. I just got back from Kuna Yala, an archipelagos of 365 tiny islands, stretching from el Golfo de San Blas all the way down to Colombia. The islands, either little villages of palm huts, crammed into the tiniest cay of sand, ...
Sailing around the worlds most beautiful beaches..
... mola or two. (A mola is a speciality in the San Blas, hand embroidered patterns on cloth which the women wear on their clothes). San Blas is Panama, but it is in the remote region of Kuna Yala. The first language here is Kuna, the women dress in colourful ...
Boat trip to Colombia
... 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. ...
Un endroit veritablement unique
... en voiture, accompagnes d'un chauffeur, Gidipi Remi Jillian DD et moi accedont au "pays" des Kuna, le gigantesque parc des San Blas Islands. C'est un magnifique exemple d'une communaute vivant selon ses propres regles et sa propre culture a laquelle le ...
Sailing from Panama to Colombia
... the captain had gotten the exit stamps for our passports we set sail up the coast of Porvenir and to an island on San Blas archipel - Chichime - , a rough 13 hours sail with big waves, half of our crew got seasick immediatly. Fishing lines were tossed ...
L'archipel des San Blas et les Indiens Kuna FR/EN
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 ...
Paradise in the Carribean
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 ...
Started out a little shaky, but the sun did shine
... road was too bad to drive. A way overpriced taxi got me and Marisol (the S. Korean girl who was also planning on sailing to Panama) to the hostel whose owners also owned the Iliki, our 42 year old, 45-ft wooden sail boat. Alright, so the flooding ...
Relax at Robinson Island
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
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 ...
Voyage to Colombia
... and Marc from Germany and Linsey and Steve from the US. The first couple of days were spent sailing around the amazing San Blas Islands. Picture perfect Carribean Islands, there are hardly any tourists there and just a few local inhabitants, the Kuna ...
El paraíso recobrado
... Darién Gap into Panam'', I decided to combine these two experiences by taking a five day boat trip from Cartagena to Panam'' via the glorious San Blas islands. I had spent a bit of time shopping around for which boat to take and had settled with ...
The San Blas Islands - Sailing Cartagena to Panama
... the ok from customs and were off! We had two full nights and a day of sailing ahead of us to get to the San Blas Islands (off the coast of Panama) so we all settled in and relaxed. The trip out of the harbour at Cartagena was amazing, seeing the old city ...
I Do Sports at Robinson ;)
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 ...
Paradise Ne'er Found
... 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 ...
It's Kuna Time
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 ...
Sunny San Blas
... and after a 2 hour transfer from Panama City to Cali, we were on a small motor boat winding our way through the San Blas Islands. The archipelago comprises of approximately 378 islands and cays, of which only 49 are inhabited. The Kuna Indians are ...
Life in Paradise
... with a general overview of the area since most people that I´ve met and subsequently told about my plans for travel to San Blas Archipelago - Kuna Yale territory, have just stared somewhat blankly back at me in return. I´ve deduced that nobody really ...
Archipelago of San Blas - Panama Caribbean
... the world on board African Queen. 4 days lapping up the untouched beaches and crystal blue water of the Archipelago San Blas Island - Panama Caribbean... These islands are out of this world and will hopefully remain untouched now that they have been ...
San Blas Islands, Panama
... after loading supplies and fuel, the ship left port at 4:00 AM for the San Blas Islands. 032210: Somewhere in the San Blas Islands, Panama: We arrived late morning at a very small island, one of the 49 inhabited out of a total of 378 ...
I am Popeye the Sailor Man!
... first 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 ...
San Blas Island, Panama
The San Blas island we visited after going through the Panama Canal was too awful to describe in print. Let’s just say it is an example of how western civilization can ruin a native culture. It was an over crowded terrible slum of a ...
Kuna Land
... boat moving through calm waters and went upstairs to find that we’d survived the crossing and arrived in the paradise of the San Blas islands. Frexie at this point got quite excited and as soon as we were anchored jumped in the water and swam ...

