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Volcan, Panama – Travel Guide

Charlie Marchant — Fri, 30 Jan 2015 16:16:36 +0000

Volcan is a very small but very pretty town in Panama. It’s not exactly a tourist hotspot – and really, that’s what’s so lovely about it. We never intended to visit Volcan. After we finished house sitting in Boquete we were going to whizz on down to Panama City, except Luke injured his leg and […]

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Boquete, Panama – Travel Guide

Charlie Marchant — Fri, 16 Jan 2015 15:59:46 +0000

Green mountain views, world renowned coffee plantations and cafes that just sell strawberries, it’s no wonder that we loved Boquete, Panama. When we realised we had a spare six weeks to explore Panama over Christmas, we set about looking for a house sit in Boquete so that we’d have a place to call home over the […]

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From Smuggling Rum Across the Panamanian Border to a Luxury Nature Retreat

Charlie Marchant — Tue, 13 Jan 2015 12:22:45 +0000

When we turned up for a nature photography tour, we had no idea that rather than taking shots of toucans and tree frogs, we’d actually be smuggling rum across the Panamanian border. The tour, which was organised by a nature retreat in Puerto Viejo, wasn’t what we expected to say the least. “Do you think they’re […]

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What I Learned From a Coffee Finca in Panama

Charlie Marchant — Fri, 09 Jan 2015 17:26:39 +0000

Ever since I first set foot in Central America, I’ve wanted to go to a coffee finca. In Costa Rica, we never found the right time and in Nicaragua, we were never in the right place. In Panama, we found ourselves in Boquete, a small town in the green mountain highlands famed for growing the finest […]

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2014 in Photos

Charlie Marchant — Tue, 30 Dec 2014 19:59:58 +0000

Back in January, who knew that our 2014 would look like this… When we came home from Taiwan at the end of 2013, Luke told me that 2014 was my year. By that, he meant it was up to me to choose what we would do. Moving to Taiwan was his idea and though I chose […]

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How Much Does It Cost to Travel Bocas del Toro, Panama on a Budget? [Infographic]

Charlie Marchant — Fri, 19 Dec 2014 10:08:31 +0000

The Panamanian island of Bocas del Toro isn’t the friendliest of places for a budget traveller, but keeping travel costs down is still do-able. When we were travelling in Puerto Viejo we decided to hop across to Bocas del Toro for a week. As expected our travels in Bocas del Toro stretched our budget way more than Nicaragua and a […]

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When I Met the Man Who Built His Own Paradise

Charlie Marchant — Tue, 09 Dec 2014 09:01:05 +0000

In a dockside bar in Bocas del Toro, a silver-haired Belgian man, once a lawyer on Wall Street, told us how he escaped, disconnected and built his own island paradise in Panama. Swirling his rum, Michel recalls being embroiled in the rat race – a concept that many are aware of, but precious few of […]

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How Not to Get Robbed in Central America

Luke Nicholson — Thu, 04 Dec 2014 02:59:16 +0000

Want to know our secret to not getting robbed while travelling in Central America and the rest of the world? Everyone told us that as tourists, we would be obvious targets in Central America. People who had never even been to that part of the world all had horror stories and travel advice to share. […]

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Why Those That Love Dolphins Shouldn’t Watch Them in Bocas del Toro

Luke Nicholson — Fri, 28 Nov 2014 16:20:44 +0000

Everyone loves dolphins, right? These social animals have been known to save beached whales, become lifelong friends with one another and play with human swimmers. But dolphin watching tours are harming the Bottlenose population in Bocas del Toro… Whilst we were in Bocas del Toro, Charlie and I went on a dolphin watching tour and […]

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