We spent 3 days/2 nights in Bocas del Toro, an group of islands on the Caribbean at the border of Costa Rica. This is the most touristy place in all of Panama and I did not like it. We didn't see the sun even once the entire time, it was overcast and rainy for the three days we were there. And this wasn't bad luck, it's like that most of the year except a few days in September and October. But this I could live with. The town of Bocas is pretty run down, which is also not a problem as we are in Central America, but priced like a resort town. The absolute worst part was that it was full of college-dropout wannabe hippies. Teeming with them. All of them from the US. It was gringo loser central. I don't have a huge problem with hippies per se, except the ones that are clearly trying too hard to be hippies and are clearly still having mom and dad pay for everything. The kind that carry around surf boards to look cool, not because they are going surfing or even know how to surf. Anyways.
The only worthwhile thing we did while in Bocas was spend the entire second day on a boat cruising around the islands and jumping out to go snorkeling. This was probably the best deal in all of Bocas, $20 for the whole day of that. First we went and hung out with some dolphins for a while, they were swimming right up to the boat. That was pretty cool. Then we cruised about 20 minutes to a little bay and got out and went snorkeling for a while, then to a small island that had a ridiculously overpriced restaurant for lunch. Then to red frog beach, where we didn't see even one frog. But we did have to walk through a jungle to get to the beach. We passed a small lagoon that had crocodiles in it. After hanging out on the beach for an hour we got back in the boat and cruised to another snorkeling spot where we spent another hour. The rest of the time in Bocas was spend walking around the very small town and sitting and drinking beer at waterfront restaurants. Not a place I will ever go back
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