Bocas Del Toro, Panama 0 View from Hotel Dona Mara 14-MAR-2008 05:54:57 0 Dophin Bay and around Bastimientos Island 14-MAR-2008 07:26:08 0 Macca Bite, Bocas Del Toro, Panama 14-MAR-2008 09:27:12 0 Zapatilla Island 14-MAR-2008 09:43:23 The most pristine island around! Also a national park. 0 Macca Bite, Bocas Del Toro, Panama 14-MAR-2008 12:42:52 0 Red Frog Beach 14-MAR-2008 13:14:07 And no, we didn't see any frogs, but the ones found here are the poison dart frogs, non-toxic to humans if they touch one. 0 Isla Colon (main island) 15-MAR-2008 09:01:24 Bike ride through the jungle. This was not walk in the park! 0 Bocas Del Drago 15-MAR-2008 09:49:58 Far side of the main island, where there is one restaurant and a private beach 0 Ground Creek, Panama 15-MAR-2008 13:24:50 0 Hospital Point 16-MAR-2008 09:41:35 Excellent snorkeling with a 60' underwater cliff. The private beach is very tropical looking and there is a point on the bluff that has 360 degree views of Careneros and Bastimientos all the way to the Caribbean. 0 Carenero Island 16-MAR-2008 15:17:40 Views across the water to Bocas Town on the main Island. The locals all live in shacks lifted on stilts, which you must walk past to get to the Cosmic Crab Restaurant. 0 Botanical Garden Tour 17-MAR-2008 09:58:45 Tour 20 acres owned by a woman from New Zealand who has turned the property into a Botanical Garden. 0 La Gruta-The Bat Cave 17-MAR-2008 12:19:34 A religious ceremonial area leads the path into a cave that goes 100 yards in and 100 yards out. Stalagmites and bats are present. 0 Ground Creek, Panama 17-MAR-2008 12:46:08 0 Bocas Del Drago again 17-MAR-2008 12:55:17 We rented a scooter the day after our bike ride and went to the same beach after seeing the bat cave. 0 Carenero Island 18-MAR-2008 06:15:05 This morning it was raining so hard it seemed like a freight train was passing by. 0 Surfing on the Caribbean side of Careneros 18-MAR-2008 09:39:15 Solid 6-8' barrels on the point. On the way back we spot a three-toed Sloth. This little guy was so cool and seemed very indecisive. 0 Carenero Island 18-MAR-2008 14:46:04 0 Boat ride from Bocas Del Toro to Alamirante 19-MAR-2008 07:37:15 We're headed to Costa Rica now 0 El Empalme, Panama 19-MAR-2008 08:19:22 The first sketchy one-lane bridge we had to cross. 0 Changuinola, Panama 19-MAR-2008 08:43:25 This is where Chiquita Banana has their huge fields and operations for bananas. 0 Border Crossing at Guabito 19-MAR-2008 08:50:52 The other sketchy bridge we has to walk across to get to Costa Rica. Huge 18 wheelers were crossing while people were walking over the bridge. 0 Border Crossing at Sixaola 19-MAR-2008 09:06:46 Waited in line for an hour to get our passports stamped while watching semi-trucks cross the bridge. 0 Drive from the border to Puerto Viejo 19-MAR-2008 10:41:12 Tons of Banana trees 0 Pipa sipping in Puerto Viejo 19-MAR-2008 11:14:12 Pipas are coconuts that have not ripened yet and have a translucent liquid that apparently mixes so well with alcohol you can't even taste it. Also supposed to be the best hangover cure! 0 Driving through Puerto Limon 19-MAR-2008 14:09:09 Ships sometimes port here and when container ships get held up in the Panama Canal, the containers are driven here from the Pacific side to be transfered onto ships on the Caribbean side. 0 Escazu, San Jose 19-MAR-2008 18:22:46 View of the San Jose valley from our hotel on the last night of our vacation. This is the city I worked in a few summers ago for an architecture firm. 0 San Jose Airport 20-MAR-2008 05:26:43 Flying to Panama City to get on our flight to Los Angeles 0 Miraflores Locks, Panama Canal 20-MAR-2008 09:02:33 This was not as exciting as I thought it would be, but its history was really cool. 0 Perico Island overlooking Panama City 20-MAR-2008 11:16:47 Our last few hours on vacation. The city is so smoggy with tons of high-rise condos, half of then being constructed. It reminds me of a dirty Miami. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0