From David we took a very nice bus all the way to our final desintation in Central America - Panama City! After 3 months on the road, experiencing a variety of villages, towns and cities with various levels of comfort and aesthetic quality, Panama City was a welcome sight. A fairly large and very cosmopolitan place with lots of cool modern skyscrapers wrapping around a Pacific Ocean bay. Our first view was over the Panama Canal bridge whereby the big impressive...

Leaving Bocas early in the morning we headed across the continental divide. Within 3 hours of leaving the Caribbean coast we came over the top of the mountains and the Pacific Ocean was in view. The landmass being so narrow here that at the highest peak you can see both oceans. In 1513 a Spanish explorer called Vasco Nuñez de Balboa took advice from Panamian natives that a vast ocean existed over the mountains. So he took off on foot into the unknown, climbing ...

Still living on the Islands of Bocas Del Toro. Was originally planning to spend maybe 2 to 3 nights here but we have both felt so at home here that we ended up staying 5 nights, and would of loved to stay longer but out Panama City flight is looming! Our last day in this amazing place involved jumping on a catamaran and sailing off to visit all the islands that make up the Bocas. We also discovered by our captain (who has a striking similarity to Flavio Briatore...

Arriving at the Panama border crossing (after a typical 6 hour bus journey) we got our exit stamps from Costa Rica and then proceeded to enter Panama. To do this you have to cross over a dodgy old railway bridge, with large gaps between the planks requiring a level of coordination that is hard to maintain after a long early morning bus journey. The border guards demanded to see and onward or return ticket, this is the first time this has happened and luckly we b...

Costa Rica, short and sweet visit but probably one of the most indepth experiences of the local culture, and because we stayed with friends for a while we saw alot of things that as a normal tourist you probably would not, so observations...... 1) Costa Rica is wet !! It rained everyday, but not like the short sharp showers in the other countries but relentless heavy rain. In Monteverde it rained solid for the three days we were there, the buses could no longer ...