It has been a long day on the busses from Boquete but I am here and found a hotel. I have some stuff to do in the morning and some sight seeing then I will update this. The bus station at Albrook is massive. It is the biggest bus station I have ever been in. The traffic is chaotic cos there is also a shopping Ctr at the bus station and a huge one across the road. On the way in I saw the Panama Canal. It wasn what I was expecting, but I will show you in a couple o...

It has been a pretty big day today. When I went to Bocas they charged me $6 for the boat and said it was return. When I went back to leave this morning they wanted another $4 so I told them to shove it and went to Taxi 25 and came back to the mainland with them. I have been trying to google a map of Almirinti to see the bus station but couldn't find one. So when we arrived at the dock the touts were all over us. One said he would take me to the bus station for $1...

I am back in Bocas town. I went swimming at 6am this morning and the water was cloudier than yesterday. The last 24 hours has been a very expensive waste of time. Today we had thunder and lightening all morning with scattered light showers. I am back in Bocas town and the rain has followed me. It is raining and looks like it has set in. I am just hanging around cos I don't want to go to Panama City too early but the rain is not much fun either. If it is still rai...

In the old days captains used to tilt their ships on there side on the beach to do maintenance to the hull. It is called careening, and apparently Columbus did it here in 1503 so the place is now called Carenero Island. It is part of the Bocas del Toro group. Columbus also named the islands after a waterfall that he thought looked like a bulls mouth, so Bocas del Toro. To get here I last at 7.30 this morning and got here about 1pm. I had bus to the border at Six...

Officially Puerto Viejo de Talamanca, but everyone just calls it Puerto Viejo. It was only 1/2hr on the bus to get down here this morning so I have been here for 5hr now. That means I have found a hotel and walked EVERY street in town and a couple out of town. It is another small town with no apparent reason for being here. It was a surf town but now it is more of a party town. Today has been overcast all day and the weather is not great but no one is in the wate...