Boquete
Travel Blogs from Boquete, Panama
Coffee coffee and more coffee!
... restaurant beside us. Tomorrow we are taking a shuttle to Bocas Del Toro, a beautiful area of islands and beaches! Our time in Boquete has been amazing and both Tim and I fully promote it as a place to come to visit for anyone thinking bout doing Panama! ...
San Jose to Bouqete, Panama
... didn´t. We arrived in David, Panama about 4:30pm and got on a chicken bus for the 1 hour ride to Boquete. Boquete is the Napa Valley of coffee plantations. Fresh fruits, vegetables and citrus also thrive ...
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Pana-Maintenance
... most famous coffee grower in Boquete (though not Matt's favorite- he has discovered that of all the coffee he's tasted, he likes Boquete's Kotowa Coffee. We bought a few pounds!). I have an amazing picture of their tasting menu- a cup of the ...
Coyote Ugly Meets Boquete...
... as the guest house for the main house. However, it's large enough for 2 people and has the most amazing views of Boquete, Volcan Baru, and on a clear day, the ocean! Wait til' you see the pictures of the sunset behind the clouds from their ...
Boquete - end of the trip
... we went to La Cabaña, another cheap place with probably the best burgers in the world. The following day there was a big party in Boquete. Unfortunately, for our hung over heads, the fiesta started at 7am ... on a Sunday! Pumping tunes and fun and games, ...
Boquete
... We then found a nice little bar next to the square (Baru') and had a couple of Balboas (Panamanian beer). After wandering around Boquete for a couple of hours we had dinner at a nice little Mexican place and went back to the hostel. Boquete ...
Mama Comes to Town!
... at times- manuvering around puddles, looking for cars before crossing the road..therefore we deemed ourselves the Professional Poncho Walkers, Boquete Chapter. We're thinking that it should be considered for a new Olympic Sport..the rules could be ...
Mi Casa es Su Casa
... Relaxed, read, took some walks into town, but nothing crazy. I guess we were still trying to recoup from our Panama City adventure. Yesterday, Rebecca, Carter, Malenca (another volunteer), Robb and I delivered the newly welded soccer goals to Casa Hogar ...
Back to school!
... the bus just drive through them all?!". Why, indeed. She obviously missed the goings on in Tianamen square. Anyway, whilst here in Boquete I enrolled in a Spanish schoolm Habla Ya for 10 hours of one-on-one intensive learning. I even had homework! My ...
boquete
... those 4 days we decided we should probably go and do something, so off we hopped on a hour and a half journey to Boquete. Boquete is a lovely mountain town that alot of retiree expats have also learnt about. Fortunately this hasn't changed the ...
Now we can do anything
So I know I have ended with a somewhat silly, everyday is an adventure and I kid you not that this day must be the epitome of adventure. We love adventure, we like to be up and about and do not rest well pool side easily for long. But ...
Boquete - Scene One, Take One
Boquete is a beautiful quite little mountain town where almost all of the good coffee in Panama is grown. Panama has the most amazing coffee I´ve ever drank! You´d never know it living in the U.S. because they like to keep all the good ...
Lost and Found
HIked up a trail into the cloud forest to find a hostel in the middle of nowhere overlooking the valley below. Dropped my bags before reception to see a fluro green snake hanging from a tree. Spent a day doing a treasure hunt which the owners have made ...
Washed Out
I thought leaving Bocas to do something completely different in the mountains would be a lot of fun. However the rain had other ideas. The first day I was admittedly a little slow to get organised and go out, and it was full on pissing it down by midday. ...
Ny vulkanbestigning + kaffetur i de dype daler
Jepsi pepsi, godtfolk og godtroevere. Da dette blogginnlegg ble skriblet ned for haand satt jeg paa Kotowa kaffebar i Boquete hovedsaklig for aa fore travelpod med enda en norsk beretning fra Mellom-Amerika, men ogsaa for aa unnslippe det oesende regnet ...
Tree Trek Tour
... where we bid our adios to the crew and get a taxi back home to Racho de Cadelera. I learned my second rule of travel in Panama on this taxi ride. It goes something like this, buenos dia, cuanto questa to Rancho de Cadellra? Diez. Mark, that means ten. ...
coffee
From fish to coffee. Boquete lies in the hills and has a lovely temperature during the day and according to my taste a bit of a too cool temperature at nighttime. Again my fleece jacket was helpful. I visited a coffee plantation, learning more about ...
Lost and Found Lodge
... was only going to be for ninety minutes before we landed at our destination...dun da dah, LOST AND FOUND LODGE is a ecohostel in Panama's cloud forest. we were poached from our last hostel to volunteer as their bartenders for a week. oh it's just a quick ...
Coffee country again! Yes!!
The bus ride from Bocas del Toro to Boquete had amazing views of Panama's mountains. First a boat from Bocas to Almirante, then a bus ride to David where we changed busses to finally get to Boquete for an overall travel time of just over 6 hours. There ...
On the Go
Time is going by so slow, yet I haven't stopped going since I left Arcata. The first four days have been great. I promise to write more when we get to Bocas. Scuba diving here we ...
Boquete
... " and everyone is really outdoorsy (it seems) and very enthusiastic! This is all pretty fitting for the hiking/rafting/outdoorsy reputation of Boquete. There are a few older people (50s or 60s) staying here as far as i can tell and they fit in just like ...
March 21 - March 24 - David/Boquete, Panama
... $10 a person or more so we were very excited to find that the place where we had made reservations for $11 a person (Hostal Boquete) found us a room for $8/person in the affiliated hotel next door called Sueños del Rio. The guy running the place is from ...
Cumbia concert and coffee tour in Panama mountains
The night that we arrived in this pleasant little mountain town, just so happened to be the night for a huge Cumbia concert by a group called Sam y Sandra. We had a great time listening to the music for a little while, but discovered that the only ...
hikes, hammocks and house-sitting
... here feel sorry for those who will never get to experience it, but at the same time don't want to share their discovery of Boquete for fear of exploitation. It's a town that could easily become over-populated by ex-pats, not only from America, but also ...

