Bocas Del Toro Panama

We drove down south of Costa Rica to cross the border and go into Bocas del Toro Panama. That was very interesting and quite the adventure!!! We had to park our car in a ladies lot that had a gate to lock it up and then we had to check out of Costa Rica and walk across this really OLD bridge with all of our luggage to get into the Panama border!!! Then we had to go and get our passports stamped to get into Panama and take a taxi to where the boats pick you up to take you to the island of Bocas.

Here is the restaurant that we ate at the first night there! It was right on the water!! Every meal that we ate we made sure we ate on the water for the pretty views!!!
We took a boat out to the island of Crawl Cave Island to do some snorkeling. It was really pretty and the water was soooo pretty!!! It was crystal clear and you could see all the way to the bottom!! It was raining that day and it felt so nice because we were in the water the whole time!!

Behind Aaron was a thing of mangroves!!

Tortuguero

After Bocas Del Torro we headed to Tortuguero where we took a hour ride down a bumpy dirt road where we parked our car and took an hour and a half boat ride through some canals that took us to Tortueguro which was out in the middle of now where. In the morning you could here the jungle!!! The howler monkeys were so loud!!

The sunset from where we were eating our dinner by the water.

We had to take a picture of our complimentary breakfast that the hotel provided!! I was like is that a hotdog!!

Standing on the beach that was right out front of our Hotel.

On the way in on the boat we saw this Cayman that was hanging out on the shore.

Here is what happens to Aaron's hair when there is humidity and wind!!

Here is Aaron carrying our luggage through the village. As you can see there was not paved walkways so you had to carry your luggage unless you wanted to drag it through the mud!!

On the dirt road we saw the Del Monte plant and Chiquita bananas was down the way. There were tons and tons of banana trees and they put blue bags over the bananas to keep out the bugs. If you look closely you will see a cable where they hook up the banana bunches and move down the cable to the plant. When we drove by there was a guy that had hooked himself up and was catching a ride to the plant.

Arenal Volcano & Monte Verde

The drive to Arenal Volcano and Monte Verde in the mountains was so pretty. Tons of rolling green hills!! We really liked the country side.


The Arenal Volcano is behind us but we could not see it because it had a cloud cover over it the whole time.



In Monte Verde we did the canopy tours which are zip lines above the rainforest. It was pouring down rain and so windy but it was so much fun!!! Our guides were a lot of fun as well!! There were times when I got scared because you are way up in the trees on these tree stands and when the wind would start whipping the trees would sway!!!

Manuel Antonio

Manuel Antonio turned out to be a very beautiful park that a lot of wild life in it. We hiked around for a little bit and found some neat beaches.





Here is an iguana. I almost stepped on this when I was too focused on looking for sea shells and I almost stepped on the rocks that he was hanging out on luckily I looked up and saw him. He hissed and I took off running!!!
Some white faced monkeys that were swinging around the trees while we were hiking.

There was lots of Sloths hanging around!!

Here is a monitor that ran by us while we were sitting on the beach.

Aaron finding things in the tide pools.

A little creek that ran into the ocean.