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- Panama
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- balboa (PAB)
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Colon Slideshow
Colon
Travel Blogs from Colon, Panama
Stuck in the Colon
... strange country. Despite earning billions in revenue through the canal the poverty in parts of the country, especially panama city and COlon was shocking, probably the worst we had seen all trip. Wherever the money goes it does ...
Let get party started- Bocas del Toro uncensored
... forests covering the islands. Bocas by itself is a small town on the coast of the biggest Bocas del Toro island called Colon. Eventhough it is a-must-to-go destination for almost every backpacker visiting Panama ( I have not spoken to one who would ...
Ridiculous Happy Hour All Night
... by Costa Rica to the west, the Carribean sea to the north, Chiriqui Province to the south and Veragus Province to the east. Isla Colon where we are staying has a slow-paced community made up of mostly English and patois-speaking people of West Indian ...
Relaxing all day
Very little to say about today...it was just relaxing in the terrace of the hostel next to the sea all day long. You could say we were working "carribbean ...
Bocas del Toro - Expat Interviews
... ;•••••••••• www.youtube.com/user/travelswithlobo ********************************************************** Panama: Eight Destinations in Which to Spend the Winter Months First Time Reader? Why ...
Bocas del Toro - The "Carnival"
... . That is followed by a speedy, bumpy, wet, wind blown ride as the launch skims along for about 20 minutes towards the island of Colon and Bocas Town. I was glad to be sitting on an inside seat as I had images of my glasses flying off due to a sudden gust ...
Colon
... because the area was dangerous, but eventually found we were going along a private road to avoid major road works. Finally we arrived at Colon, having missed the road to the Fort, and then drove to the Free Zone. This is touted as the second largest duty ...
Bocas del Toro (EN/FR)
... further, I realised that whole sea bed was full of it, as if the sky had been turned upside down. Returning from Panama, I was pleasantly surprised to find a 90-day visa stamp on my passport. Maybe it was a mistake, maybe not. For now, ...
Bocas
... boat ride and we arrived at the Carribean islands of Bocas del Toro. Bocas del Toro is made up of three islands, Isla Colon, Isla Bastimentos and Isla Carenero. We docked on the largest island, Isla Colon and decided to set up home there. We found ...
Snorkelling Tour
Its 5 months today since we started our adventure. It feels longer, but at the same time not a day of boredom. So today we decided to "try something new"...snorkelling. Suprisingly we had never tried this activity, and given the amount of fish, coral ...
Bocas, no más!
... pots de vin ont fait l'affaire - j'ai continué mon aventure sur l'archipel de Bocas Del Toro, au Nord Est du Panama. J'attendais beaucoup de cet endroit, car j'avais vu des photos magnifiques de plages perdues dans les Caraibes. Alors oui, ...
Fantasy Island
... , home of the Chiquita Banana Company. We parked Rover at the bombero (fire station) for safe keeping and took a water-taxi over to Isla Colon. We stayed in the small city of Bocas del Toro for a night, it has the feel of a town on the verge of major ...
Panama 'abundance of fish'
... $7 later !!!! best yet!!! We drive across the OLD bridge that used to be used for railcars an enter the hot humid country of Panama singing Van Halen tunes! No one harrassing us and friendly helpful locals. We even give a kid a ride to the nearby 100 ...
Camping in the Jungle
... having a lot of difficulties at the moment with internet connections. So from Puerto Viejo we made our way south to the Panama boarder. The crossing was fairly easy although it did involve crossing a large swollen river via a fairly rickety bridge. Cat ...
Bocas Del Toro
Minus six degrees in November? That's snow joke. Sorry haven't written for a while. All's fine and dandy here, our plans seem to change daily but at the moment we're settled on an island in a place called Bocas del Toro (google image it, it’s v ...
Colon
... yesterday and after sitting and waiting for 40 mins we were told they do not do carry out this exam now for vehicles leaving from Colon, The result of this was we set of straight away to get to Colon, On arrival Mike went into the office to find out ...
Flying to Bocas del Toro for Island Adventure
Talk about a Bird´s Eye View. The views from the airplane were spectacular. Initially, I could see the Panama Canal and how it empties into the lake, before you get to the Carribean. The landscape then looked like a patchwork quilt of greens in many ...
Canal, Canal, Canal! Oh yeah, arrived in Panama
... We arrived in Panama on the 9th of May (Pete did you get my birthday email?) and after waiting in Colon for 10 days transited the Canal into the Pacific, which was an amazing experience, in fact I did it 3 times, helping other yachts through who ...
Relaxing
Had a great week doing very little. This island has a very nice feel good factor, so deciede to lower my pace to its level! I am studying spanish a bit, 6 hours a week, so does not really count, and been exploring the island via a bike (bum ...
Every night is ladies night
... heard that you needed to pay $30 to leave Costa Rica and was pleasantly surprised when it was free (it was free to enter Panama as well which was a bonus). A collectivo was waiting at the border to ferry backpackers to where the boat would take you down ...
Scuba and islands
... to describe how big the area is and an endless view of plantations. Anyway the boat took an hour or so to get to Isla Colon in Bocas meandering its way through mangroves, river and ocean. Once i landed in Bocas myself and a few others found a decent ...
Panama Canal- Gatun Locks
... I was happy that this is where us bus stopped for a break because it honestly was the only nice area in the entire city. Colon is very dangerous and not to alarm our families back home, but a lot of drug and sex trafficking comes though here. Thankfully, ...
Took a right turn when we were heading forward!
... birds and I saw a very large neon blue butterfly. Really cool stuff. Back to the catamarran, where we read books and drank Panama beer all afternoon. Each afternoon, Josef and Maria bring their workers a beer at the end of the work day. They picked ...
A man, a plan, a canal, panama....
... crossing, into Panama. We headed to Bocas del Toro to check out latin america - carbbean style! we took a lancha to Colon Island (also known as Bocas Town) and immediately you could see the carribbean influence, the Panamanians were darker skinned and ...
Springbreak Grandslam
As soon as we arrived in Bocas del Toro island we began a frantic search for somewhere that would be showing the Six Nations rugby grandslam decider. We soon learned that it was American spring break as accomodations were quite full and ...
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 ...
Cartagena - Panama - Colon
... Police that the cafe proprietor immediately gave Dave his money back, apologised and treated us as his best friends! Monday 14th June. Panama City - Colon This morning we were up at the beastly hour of 5am and on the train to Colon at 7am. An hour long ...
Bak to Panama
... , and her tired crew, have returned to Shelter Bay, a marina complex in an abandoned American military base, 5 miles from the Panama Canal entrance, and surrounded by impenetrable jungle. I'll go into more detail about this joint in my next email. But for ...
Bocas del Toro - Caribbean Dreaming
... up my mind as to my next destination. I was originally planning to go to Bocas del Toro located on Colon Island located on the Caribbean side of Panama near Costa Rica but this is carnival weekend and there is a carnival in Bocas del Toro that would ...