Cabinas Sanchez Sixaola

Unfortunately, Connie, Leppy and I left Bocas a tad too late. Myself and the Mas Pan Man went to an internet cafe to stream Cork's disappointing loss to Galway in the hurling qualifiers, and then returned to our hotel to pack our bags and take on. Having decided to shun the decidedly expensive direct shuttle connection to Puerto Viejo in Costa Rica, we took various forms of local ...

Hi All,<br><br>Ben and I have finally been able to relax here in Bocas.. It was fairly intense getting here - 2 nights in LA, flight to Mexico City, there for the night, with 2 hours to look around in the morning before flying to scary Panama City (note to everyone - it´s a good idea to have a guide book here.. which we didn´t), stayed there the night, saw the Panama Canal in action an then had a quick flight to Bocas del Toro!!<br><br>We didn´t really ...

So, on Saturday morning we came to Sixaola, on the Costar Rican border. We walked till the emigration center and then crossed the very very old train bridge to Panama. Some people are complaining about maintaining that old bridge just because its antiquity, even when is not comfortable and it seems it could collapse at any moment. I found it anyhow beautiful. <br><br>Already in Panama, they tried again to lie us to make us catsch the touristical bus, which was ...

Alright, so continuing on... Right after I last wrote we all literally had to run and jump on to the bus as it was pulling away and we headed to David. Our plan was to take the overnight bus to Panama City, but we had a couple hours to kill first. Luckily, we discovered that they had a movie theatre so after a delicious dinner at a pirate ship themed casino bar, we watched "Wolverine". Super good, and so fun to watch a movie! Then it was back to the bus depot, onto ...

... the money we owed him for lunch. Unfortunately, he couldn't get his boat started again (good thing that didn't happen in the middle of the ocean), so he had to get towed home. The next day we finally got to do some snorkelling. It was good. Lots of pretty, colorful coral. Not a great variety of fish, and nothing too exotic, but the coral was very nice. And the best part, no boat breakdowns.

Christmas eve was definetly an adventure! Hoping to go to a beach today he hopped on a water taxi to island basimentos. Once on the island you must take a 20 minute hike up the hill to the other side of the island. If it were only that simple! It rained quite a bit earlier in the day. The hike turned into a 60 minute hike through a sloppy muddy trail. Shoes were not possible so they were quickly removed. Sometimes the mud puddles were as deep as ...

... to serve the higher purpose of hooking up, which failed miserably since I spent most of the night talking (and biting my tongue) to an attractive dreadlocked woman with a rocking body from Oregon. Why did I have to bite my tongue? Well, although she seemed genuinely nice in that love everyone hippie-dippy way, her work was a direct-marketing scam related to taking a blue-green extract to create and release bone-marrow stem-cells in ...

... del Toro or Colon Island. The area is full of islands to what is our first visit to the Carribbean sea. Our first impression was that the Northwest of Panama is completely different to the rest that we have seen up to now. It is very similar to Jamaica or other carribbean islands. Its all very chilled out - relaxed and with lots of afro culture around the place. As a matter of fact most of the locals in the Islands seem to ...

The hostel I stayed in had been decided what to name their cat. They let people suggest names and I noticed in the morning that they decided to name it "Maraculla," which mean passion fruit. I think they got the got the spelling right, I think it's actually "maracuya," but whatever works, it's still a cute name :) <br><br>I went with a few people from the hostel to a ...

PANAMA: Currency: USD Gasoline: 3.34 per galon cheap prices, unexplored corners, Panama Canal. From Puerto Viecho, i took the road to Sixaola, where you have to cross another "adventurous " bridge to get into panama. This border crossing is much less frequented and thus, its easier and faster to get through. I had no trouble. Fees: 5 $ for fumigation. thats all. panama roads are pretty good.