Natural Park Bocas del Toro Panama

Bocas del Toro Panama is a natural park in which the beauty of their landscapes is featured. There take place most of the realities of adventures of many countries. A place for the investment in real estate, surrounded of forest, sea and beach on the Panamanian Caribbean, close to Costa Rica.

Bocas del Toro was transforms, in few years, of being known as one of the first islands that Christopher Columbus stepped in America to be recognized as the natural scenario of most of the realities of adventures that are recorded around the world. In this Panamanian archipelago on the Caribbean Sea, located in the whole border with Costa Rica, they are filmed an average of four realities per year. In 2006 delegations of Chile, Croacia and Russia they were in their beaches and forests. The 2007 began it with a Colombian delegation, the reality “Desafío 2007” of Caracol Television.

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Bocas del Toro, is called this way by the image that it make their islands, is also the destination of adventurers from United States, Argentina, France, Spain and Italy who especially, they look for in this natural park a place that offers them the opportunity of extreme adventures in their forests and beaches (dreamt by the surfing practitioners). Equally, it is a place very frequented by mature tourists and family groups that want private and calm places, without the noise characteristic of the big tourist centers.

Also, Bocas del Toro at this moment have become a very wanted place and requested to buy real estate, for the beauty and the peacefulness that surround this place. Besides is located relatively close of the United States, in the beautiful region of the Caribbean.

How to arrive to the island?

columbus island panama Bocas del Toro are a group of islands, the biggest natural park in Panama, located on the Caribbean Sea, in the border with Costa Rica.

To arrive to Columbus Island, capital of the county (where are the hotels, restaurants and the airport) is necessary to take an airplane until Panama City and from there to go to the regional airport of Albrook, of where daily two flights come out toward Bocas del Toro.

The itinerary from Panama City to Columbus Island takes one hour. The trip could be also to make it from San Jose Costa Rica, first by car (8 hours) and then in boat (30 minutes).

Although Columbus Island is the axis of the life in Bocas del Toro, there are the trade and the hotels, they are the neighboring islands the favorite ones for the tourists that every morning takes a boat heading for a different destination and in the afternoon they return to the lodgings of Island Columbus.

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Attractive places of Bocas

The main attractiveness of the group of islands that integrate Bocas del Toro is its natural landscapes, in those that the forest is integrated with the beaches and the sea. The islands, in their majority uninhabited offer the possibility of ecological tourism, rich in flora and fauna. The color of the sea is another of the attractive points of the island. Their beaches are used, in this season, for the surfing practice, especially in the well-known sector as Bluff. The beaches of Bocas are characterized by their peacefulness, what also becomes a special attractiveness for the tourists.

Columbus Island: hotels and food

columbus island hotels Columbus Island is a small city, with more than 25 registered hotels and same number of restaurants, most of them specialized in international and sea's food. To mention that most of the hotels of Columbus City is on the sea.

Bocas is a very peaceful place in which the consumption of liquor is not allowed. reccomend to you that in the streets neither the traffic of people without shirt. The malls and other public establishments close their doors at ten in the night.

Advices for travelers

To visit Bocas del Toro Panama, consult the near travel agency to you, reserve the hotel and when you to arriving at the airport to acquires a map, for not losing the opportunity to know this beautiful place.

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Natural Park Bocas del Toro Panama

How to arrive to the island?

Attractive places of Bocas

Columbus Island: hotels and food

Advices for travelers