When Troels headed back to San Jóse I continued my trip and went to Bocas del Toro in Panama. I did not want to take my chance crossing the border with my motorcycle or parking it somewhere near, so I parked it at Marloes' and got a shuttle from Puerto Viejo to Bocas del Toro. A mini van took us to the border where we had to walk across this bridge to enter Panama.
When we got over to Panama there was another mini van waiting to take us to the water taxi for Bocas del Toro. When we arrived on Isla Colon, which is the main island of Bocas del Toro, I must say I was a bit surprised. After all the rumors I had heard about the place I was expecting just beaches and loads of tourists. Instead I got there for the low season and on the main island the coast is filled with houses.
I started out trying to find a place to stay for the 3 nights I was planning to be in Bocas. There are loads of hotels and hostels around, and while walking down the street people would just shout at me and telling me where I should stay. I had brought my own hammock so I just needed a hostel where I could hang it up. Coconut Hostel was the spot, and here is the view from my "room" ;)
After hanging up my hammock and dropping off my luggage I went for a little adventure over to the closest island. I cought a water taxi for $1 and just started walking. It was actually a long walk to find a beach, but I did find it :) A nice and calm beach with a nice reef break where people were surfing the nice waves.
When I was walking back from the beach I meet some of the people I took the shuttle with, and I joined them. Back on the main island we searched for a tour for the next morning. We wanted to go on a boat and see different spots on the different islands. We quickly found Captain Willy who was a nice guy, and had a good tour for us. So the next morning we went with Captain Willy on his boat. The first stop was Dolphine Bay :D There's supposed to be about 400 dolphines in the bay, and some of them came up to greet us!
And show off some of their tricks ;)
We drove the boat in circles and the dolphines would play in the waves we made. It was such an amazing experience!! I just wish I could jump in and swim with the dolphines, maybe some other time!
Next stop was Crawl Cay where we had time to eat lunch and snorkle around :) The water was so clear, and there was so much life under water! I could have stayed snorkeling the whole day, but our next stop was the islands in the background, Isla Zapatillas, which I have heard are unbelievable pretty.
And just as I heard they were like paradise!! So calm, so pretty, so clear and warm water. I would just bring my hammock and live there!!!
And there's always time for some gymnastics ;)
Unfortunately I wasn't allowed to stay on the island, so we headed back to the main island for the evening. I had a little walk to look what they had around. This is their main street which by night gets crowded by people ready for a party.
I spent a lot of time with a couple from Germany, and we checked out what offers we could get for scuba diving the next day! As a perfect dinner for this day I tried my first lobster. It was a challeng trying to figure out how to eat it, but it was so delicious!
The next morning we decided to go to Playa Bluff on the main island before we would head out scuba diving.
Now I started to believe the rumors I had heard about all the perfect beaches they have here, and still there are so many I didn't even have time to see! I also had a funny experience in the taxi on the way to the beach. When I sat down in the taxi I could here the girls that were sitting there talking swedish. So I started talking to them, and believe it or not the one girl had a sister who went to Ollerup! As if that's not enough, she went there with Maja and Jorge who owns the club I'm teaching at in San Jóse!!
It's impossible to describe how much I am enjoying travelling around!!
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