Las Olas Beach Resort

... is taking a break from the blog, so I am doing today's entry.  The week at Las Olas was quite exciting.  Las Olas is on the beach of Playa Barqueta.  The beaches here on the Pacific side are mainly grey beaches, ie a mixture of black and ...

... que hay mucha menos gente. El rugir de las olas es increíble. Esto es el Mar Arábico y el océano Índico y las olas que se forman son enormes. No puedo imaginarme como serán cuando haya tormentas. Al parecer las corrientes marinas son muy ...

After spending the last month scooting between the dusty town of Puerto Malabrigo and the Trujillian beach resort of Huanchaco on bandito patrolled roads, the famous (well, sort of) Chicama Left provided my friends and I with some of the longest, leg ...

Well now we have to try and remember it all, as it is now the 18th of March.  We arrived back to the beach resort, after a 5 hour drive, as Gorgona is close to Panama City, and Las Olas is just below the frontier (border) with Costa Rica.  As I ...

... to take off for a couple of days. We went to Playa Barqueta which is about 45 minutes from David. We stayed for 3 nights at Las Olas Beach Resort. We had been away for almost a month and were finally gonna get a hot shower, ooh ahhh and ac. Needless to ...

... home here.  Many of you have asked what we do here so I will try to give an explanation.  Where we live Las Olas is a beautiful place.  Our home has needed a few things done and in Panama getting things done is like climbing Mount ...

... del grupo nos bañamos en pelotas de manera separada a la luz de la luna llena, cuando de repente en el jugueteo de las olas se ve un animal que parece como un delfín, y yo de la emoción llamo a Mayra y a Muf que estaban conmigo disfrutando ...

... Esto tiene sus ventajas y sus inconvenientes. Por una parte, puedes disfrutar de la brisa y el sonido del romper de las olas y observar como los crios pescan pececillos desde la orilla con un simple sedal y una botella de Coca-Cola que ...

... and before we dive back into work whole-heartedly. Chris- after the last couple of stops we needed to stay at a hot beach resort with a room so close to the ocean that it leaves us vulnerable to small tsunamis. after getting readjusted we went right to ...

... so caught a bus, having given up waiting for a taxi, to the central downtown area. We wandered into the fairly well know area of Las Olas Boulevard and the shops here made the mall look cheap! Oh well it's good to gawk sometimes but not much fun for Liz ...

... was an absolute joy. Disembarking at SE 9th Street stop, we decided to explore the shops and cafes on Las Olas Boulevard. What we found was very disappointing. There were dozens of ridiculously high priced restaurants peppered among boutiques ...

... was not forgiving to continuing on with the trip.  Man we were looking forward to getting to my friend Elain's condo on the beach!  Today the center stand comes off!  I think I will look for another shock thinking it might get me a little ...

... to run to the city and let Jene hold down the couch and me the pool side lounge.  This is a very nice place, beach and resort.  A great place to recover.  We will pick up the pannier on Wed, hopefully on our way out to Panama City.  ...