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From Sea to Sea
After consulting our Lonely Planet book, we took a bus to David, the second largest and probably the hottest city in Panama. Getting off the bus, we were immediately ushered into another bus which was heading south, towards our new destination of Boca Brava in the Gulf of Chiriqui. This 3000 hectare island is within a national marine park and once …
Holy mother of sunburns! But soo worth it.
We snagged a bus from Boquete to David, then on to Almirante (I think that's the name) to catch the water taxi. First a little about the bus ride, they actually had two dogs, each in a bag with their heads sticking out, strapped to the roof of the bus with all the luggage! The ride was so pretty, super curvy and hilly and sometimes a little scary. …
Who needs a car?
... the lost to the boat.
Anyway we crowded onto a motor boat, wondering why there was a mad rush and no one wanted the back row, which is where we sat, the boat set off at a very leisurely pace, Glenn looked around and said, 'I don't know why they have got such big engines on this boat, if they opened them up, this boat would fly.' They opened them up and Glenn was right. Pinned back in our seats we experienced the fastest motor boat ride of ...
Beach Paradise!
... and roasting. We thought we were going to have some relief when we got to the window but then we were told that our proof of exiting the country (our shuttle ticket out of Panama) wasn't good enough proof and we needed to buy one of their bus tickets. This was an obvious scam on some part, but we paid the $14 so we could enter the country. After crossing the border we got in another shuttle for about 45 mins that took us to a dock were we got in a boat taxi that took us to the ...
C'mon Pineapple...we've got some beachtime going
... awful alcohol in plastic cups is not really with what we like to party! But we made the best out of it and it was still fun.
The next day we rent some bikes and cruised to some beaches including the starfish beach... always with a pineapple in our backpack.... fruits are very cheap here...yes!!!
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