Bocas del Toro, Province of Panama
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.