Before we left for our travels I was very excited about seeing South America and returning to Central America; I thought we'd mainly be on beaches and in lovely warm weather-perfect. I obviously hadn't really thought it through and was a bit miffed when half way through the trip we'd only spent 1 month on beaches and in warm weather. We have basically been cold for about 4 months..so imagine our excitement about getting to an island off Panama for a few days..there was definitely going to be a beach there!! And it was HOT!
Bocas del Toro is an archipelago off the Panama Caribbean coast full of tiny picture perfect islands with white sanded beaches and pristine jungle behind. It is beautiful. We stayed on the main island, Isla Colon about a 40 minute boat trip away from the mainland. The town has a very slow paced atmosphere with little coffee shops, bakeries and lots of yummy seafood restaurants. We visited a lovely beach on this island called Bocas del Draco where we spotted literally hundreds of huge starfish! One day we got a 10minute water taxi over to a nearby island, Isla Bastimentos and spent the day on Red Frog Beach, a pretty much inhabited white sanded gorgeous beach with apparently a large number of poisonous red frogs, however we didn't see one. Our favourite beach was Wizard Beach, although the water was too rough to swim in, it was great watching the surfers attempt to stay upright! It was so good to be on a beach again, and such amazing beaches too!! They rivaled the Brazilian beaches we had spent a month on all that time ago!! We spent about 4 days on the islands and loved it so much, looking forward to months of beaches ahead of us!! No more cold!!
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