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We crossed over the border on a very rustic (read lots of holes) wooden bridge into Panama. A guy quickly came up to us and asked us if we were gonna go to Bocas del Toro. 20 dollar. We decided to take the chicken bus and 2 dollars later we arrived in Bocas.

Since Christoffer have been forced to rest these last days because of the foot I had to enjoy Bocas on my own so I decided to do my advanced diving course. Christoffer hated rehab so after two days he decided to dive as well and did the last 3 dives together with me (one of them being a night dive which was really cool). We saw lots of bioluminescence and also a shark! I thought he would scare us but unfortunately he thought we were scarier. We also saw lots of different parrot fish, green moray, squids, octopuses, lobsters and more.

It’s expensive to eat here so to save money we’ve been cooking our own food which means we’ve been living on noodles and vegetables. On the other hand, alcohol is cheap! Almost every night is ladies night here which means free drinks. The place to be on a Saturday night is Aqua Lounge Bar so we took a water taxi there. We were chatting with two happy and gay Italian guys and some Rastafarian before noticing the action on the dance floor. Ladies night sure makes the ladies go wild. The dance floor looked like a mating zone. A girl and a guy were doing the doggy style on the dance floor. Clothes on luckily...

After been busy diving every day we decided to go to the beach to relax. When we arrived there was nobody at the beach. We had it all to ourselves… or at least we thought so. But when we came back out of the water our bag was gone. Stolen, gone, vanished. We thought we had kept an eye on those few (3 persons) passing by. My first thought… My sunglasses!!! My first real sunglasses that I decided to pay some extra for because I knew I would wear them every day for 212 days on this trip. I started running around with my Polish anger bursting through my veins thinking that the guy couldn’t be far away. The island was pocket size! Suddenly I see our stuff scattered over the ground behind some bushes. My sunglasses were there and so were our clothes and hotel key but the wallet was of course empty and Christoffer’s cellphone was gone as well. Luckily, it was only 8 dollars which was the money we needed for the transport and the cellphone was quite old.

Our last day, we decided to go on a tour around the archipelago. For the first time in my life, I saw wild dolphins. I truly wanted to be Jacques Mayol (Le Grande Bleu) in that moment and just jump into the water and play with them.

Next stop San Blas islands.

Steffi

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Steffi & Chris on October 25, 2009 from Bocas del Toro, Panama

from the travel blog: 212 days

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Schönt att brillorna var kvar:) allt annat är värdsliga saker som Karlsson på taket skulle ha sagt:)! Hoppas de e bättre med C:s fot och att ni fortsätter att göra Enzo och Jacque avundsjuka genom att dyka ner i allt blå som ögonen ser:)!

written by Andreas on October 31, 2009

Första rånet,tur att det inte var så allvarligt.
Så du har också gjort advanced nu Steffi? Härligt!
Här i Indien blir det inte mycket dyka.
Skönt att du är uppe och springer igen Christoffer.
Smogen i Indien proppar igen hjärnan så jag vet inte vad jag ska skriva mer nu, men vi hörs sen!

Ha det guld!

Sara Jonte

written by Jonte on November 8, 2009

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