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- Panama
- Capital
- balboa (PAB)
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- 2,845,647
- Population
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Bocas Town Slideshow
Bocas Town
Travel Blogs from Bocas Town, Panama
A quick trip to Panama...Bastementos to be exact!!
... to update his passport, so a trip across the border was in need!! Hopped a bus to Sixola and crossed a wicked bridge to get to Panama!! You had to walk across and half way there the time changes one hour and you are in Panama!! First a taxi ride to ...
Bocas del Toro - Caribbean Dreaming
... . Then there is the archipelago of Bocas del Toro and finally the town of Bocas del Toro that is also referred to as Bocas Town located on Isla Colon (Columbus Island). It was Christopher Columbus who discovered the area in 1502. The province is made up ...
Beach time at Bocas
... (a little too full, but at least it was only an hour) which then took us to Almirante. From there it was a water taxi to Bocas Town and another water taxi to Red Frog Beach on Isla Bastimentos, where we were staying. We were contemplating where to stay as ...
Yay for Panama!!!
... to take a cab or boat to get to them and have to pay once you get there but other then that not one complaint. I hear that panama city has stuff for dirt cheap so i think i might buy a waterproof digital camera or a new ipod so if u can think of ...
Panama
On the bus to the Panama border we met two Canadian girls who informed us that we couldnt travel to Panama without seeing ´Bocas Del Toro´ its a region in Panama with loads of little islands and jungle. We were to hungover to come up with a better plan ...
Bocas del Toro
Ls, Vanaf de San Blas eilanden zijn we met de overgebleven passagiers, een aantal was al eerder vertrokken, naar Panama stad gegaan. Daar had iedereen bij het Luna's castle hostel afgesproken voor een reunie annex afscheidsfeest. In een club beland waar ...
Happy Thanksgiving!
... though it was still a gorgeous day, we all took two hour siestas because we had already walked around and seen most of Bocas Town. The park, restaurants/bars, hotels/hostels, and various other commercial entities. One bar we went to was on ...
Not impressed with Bocas
... where they came from. When we finally arrived at the dock, where we had to catch the boat to the Isla Coló® ·here the town of Bocas del Toro sits. However, there was full boat ready to leave, so we had to wait around for 2 hours for the next one. ...
Bocas Del Toro
We arrived to a slightly cloudy Bocas and wheeled our suitcases down the road to our guest house. The local foreign population seems laid back and I think perhaps some of them have been here some time. We checked into our room, and were given a key with a ...
Bottletop Confetti
... a great group. Mark from Switzerland with two Bengal tigers for pets. Janina from Germany who is jammy enough to be working in Bocas in a marine preservation team, Liza from Sweden who was big and beautiful and reminded me of me. Finally, our teacher Jock ...
Visited Wizards Beach
Today we took a boat across to another Island to visit Wizards Beach, we had heard that the path to the beach was muddy but didn´t realise that it was going to be so bad, we ended up walking bare foot through the mud and it really was grim. The ...
Escape to Panama
Buenas! Just got back to Costa Rica yesterday. Went to Bocas del Toro in Panama for 3 days. Another great place! Lots of islands with mangroves and beautiful beaches, all with a real carribean feel. We took the bus from Puerto Viejo to the border, ...
Surf and Fiesta in Bocas
... wheels in a developing country with a crazy little viking and scottish kid. Lots of food and lots of dancing somes up the rest of the fair. Bocas has been so much fun. I loved the crowd I with at the hostel and I loved the area. Its going to be hard to ...
Bocas del Toro - 1. Schultag in Panama
Die Grenzüberquerung von Costa Rica nach Panama war leider nur nach längerer Diskussion und letztlich mit einer für 13 US-Dollar p.P. relativ günstig "bezahlten" Anschlussbusfahrt zu unserem späteren Ziel realisierbar. Der Grenzbeamte war ...
Bocas del Toro - 2. Schulwoche espaniol
... Strand aus, um dort die Spanisch-Vokabeln vom vormittag zu vertiefen. Wir freuen uns auf die bevorstehende 3. und gleichzeitig letzte Woche hier im karibischen Bocas del Toro. Danach gehts nochmal 1 Woche zur Schule, dann aber in die Berge nach Boquete. ...
Island hopping in Panama
On march 1st we left our hammock hotel in Puerto Viejo and headed south for Panama. The trip took all day but was made easy because we were travelling with a really cool group of two other american guys (Shaun and Jesse), an english girl (Sity), and two ...
Panama Anxiety
... our French Friends and talk to Enrique the hostel owner about island life and its changing culture. We head off to the town of Bocas Town for scuba diving and hopefully curry at an indian restauarant! The (*******) restaurant`s closed for the ...
Panama
... by westernization due to unbridled tourism. My good buddy from Peace Corps (Tim Jones) & I spent 2 weeks visiting Panama City, Penonome, Boquete, Bocas del Toro & the San Blas Islands. The HI-LITE of Panama and one of the coolest things ...
Muchos Graçias Muchachos
... a town and a tourist resort located on the southern tip of Colón Island in the Bocas del Toro Archipelago in the Caribbean Sea. Bocas Town had 12,996 residents in 2008. We got an all inclusive transfer to cross the border from Costa Rica to Panama rather ...
Country Number 6 - Panama
Left Costa Rica and arrived in Panama, we feeled stitched up by the immigration because we had to buy a bus ticket back to Costa Rica because we didn´t have any confirmation of our onward journey. To cross the border we had to walk across a ...
Dentist appointment and visited Red Frog Beach
Yes we had to visit the Dentist today, one of Roody´s teeth crumbled and after trying to do our own repairs ( temporary filling equipment given to us by Rene´s dentist) we decided that a Dentist visit was required.....great dentist called Doctor Wong ...
Bocas birthday bash
... a day or so there, and where we met a couple of Panamanian movie makers who were busy making a tourist promotional film of Bocas town and all the surrounding islands. Simon's 30th was a bit overcast but we took a boat tour of the ...
So a Brit an Aussie & a German walk into a bar....
... latched on to us and the Austrian who had just bought a useless bus ticket. Christian was also heading to Bocas like me so we got a minibus to the town of Almirante (after much haggling and a few rows between different drivers) and then a speed boat to ...
Rahuls Birthday Binge
And onto the notorious party town of Bocas Del Torro for my birthday. FYI - This is the first one in 7 years where i haven't had an exam around the day so yes, i deserve to cry myself a river and make these 4 days about me. A 2hr bus to Sixaloa, ...
Panama, Bocas Del Toro Part 1
... tourist visa expires and we are required to leave the country for 72 hours. Some people go to Managua Nicaragua but most visit Panama as it it the easiest (or so it seemed at the time). Panama uses the American dollar as its currency, their roads ...
Birthday del Toro
It pays to be posh. I booked myself two nights over my birthday at this posh resort just outside Bocas del Toro town on the Panamanian Caribbean island of the same name. The first night was pre-birthday excitement (telling myself that I couldn't hum The ...
Bocas Del Toro - Panama
Hey everyone! Our next stop was Bocas Del Toro...islands in the northern part of Panama on the Carribean side! The island we stayed at really reminded us of somewhere that would be in "Pirates of the Carribean"...with bars and restaurants lining the ...
Boca del Toro!
... the ocean and a wicked hang over that later turned out to be something much different....we arrive in Boca! What a beautiful little town!! Its situated on a little island and is definately a tourist town, yet not a lot of tourists know about ...
Star Fish, Red Frogs, Dolphins & Jelly Fish
... in Gran Kahuna Hostel. That first evening we ended up going to a party at the Aqua Lounge, just across the water from Bocas Town. We took a taxi boat across and found the Aqua Lounge to be a really cool place. Its a Bar/Hostel with decking ...
Black and Blue in Bocas
... more of my camera´s safety than my own. Not good. I´m hoping that in CR I can find somewhere to stay that is actually on the beach. Panama´s been good, much better than expected till Bocas, which I think is very overrated unless you ...