The terribly uncomfortable and freezing night bus got us into David at about 5am, worryingly everything was shut and we thought we might have a long wait for things to open. Luckily there was one collectivo minibus shouting for Bocas so we jumped on. We had to sit on the back row and there was barely an inch of room and I had a little girl end up sleeping leaning against me. This bus was also freezing with the air con on, but after about an hour and a half, the s...

We arrived in Portobello, Panama after 5 lovely nights at sea. We didn't even need to go to immigration, Paul and sindry went for us. We were planning on doing some diving in portobello but the dive prices were much more expensive than we thought they would be so we changed our plans at the last minute and headed straight to Colon. We caught our first chicken bus to Colon, these buses are all over Central America and they are old american school buses that are no...

We were the first to the boat at 8pm and we were shown to the boat but John the captain wanted us to wait near the front of the docks to show the others where to go. When they got there we all made our way to the boat and John told us which beds we were sleeping in. We got the best bed at the top of the boat which was big and had a cool breeze coming through. We had a welcome beer and was shown the boat which was a beautiful traditional wooden yacht. It was cool ...