Articles / Panama Tourist Guide
Tags: almirante, Bastimentos, boat_ride, Bocas del Toro, Bocas Town, bocas_del, city_slicker, dive_bars, fertile_soil, geographical_structure, heaven_on_earth, humble_folk, intents_and_purposes, Isla Colon, mainland, middle_class, natives, panama_city, pan_american_highway, personal_opinion, piece_of_heaven, Red Frog Beach, role_playing_videogame, unsuspecting_tourists
September 25, 2008
If there’s one thing a tourist will take back to their homeland once they leave Bocas del Toro, it definitely has to be they way how it manages to change the way you look at life, all for the better. For all intents and purposes, the best way I can describe the allure of Bocas is that the entire province falls under the distinct geographical structure of a role-playing videogame, or RPG for short. You have your mainland in Almirante, mostly a port town that used to be highly prosperous decades ago due to the fertile soil and banana processing companies. Due to worker unions and other ass-backwards decisions made by the very people who lived in the area, Almirante now is nothing more than a lower-middle class port town that tourists on a budget must pass through in order to get to one of the top destinations of the region, favorite to both you and old: Isla Colón, only a short boat ride away from the mainland.
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Articles / Panama Tourist Guide / Video
Tags: azuero, Azuero Peninsula, carnaval, carnivals, Chitré, city_slicker, enthusiastic_energy, foreigner, inexpensive_restaurants, las_tablas, luxuries, Panama Tourist Guide, Panama Travel, panama-tourism, panama_city, panama_tour, panama_travel, public_transportation, strip_malls, taxi_driver, tourism_package, tourist_destination, transportation_situation, youtube
August 29, 2008
One would think they have entered Prozac Nation upon arrival but that first impression is not something that can be held accountable to the residents of Chitré; on the contrary, the problem is that many of us that are so used to the hectic, smog-dominated city life that visiting such a tranquil place is nothing short of a system shock. You can literally feel the darkness of your soul slowly peel away the further you venture into the city. The air feels cleaner, everyone says “hello” to each other and, unlike Panama City and its traffic, modeled after the southwest ghetto district of the 7th ring of hell, drivers are actually courteous on the road. You can actually tell how many people from the capital are visiting Chitré by the way they’re driving… because they’re so damn rude.
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