{"id":425621,"date":"2017-05-30T09:11:51","date_gmt":"2017-05-30T15:11:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/?p=425621"},"modified":"2017-05-30T15:33:55","modified_gmt":"2017-05-30T21:33:55","slug":"bastimentos-island-panama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/2017\/05\/bastimentos-island-panama\/","title":{"rendered":"Bastimentos Island, Panama"},"content":{"rendered":"

After a few days in fun, but touristy, Bocas Town<\/a>, we hopped a boat and headed over to Bastimentos Island, another island in the Bocas Del Toro archipelago. Bastimentos is far smaller, and the “Old Bank”, as the primary town is called, consists of one sidewalk connecting the handful of restaurants and small bed and breakfasts. After the hustle and bustle of Bocas Town, Old Bank was refreshingly quiet. Our accommodations were high up on a hillside, and almost felt like a treehouse, complete with a hammock.
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We had a humorous dinner in Old Bank. A couple of french women had clearly been waiting for their food for quite some time. When it finally arrived, one of the women was served calimari instead of camarones- easy enough to confuse, right? Here at home, it would take all of 30 seconds to bring the calimari back and start up some shrimp, but here in Panama that just led to the waiter arguing with the customer. But what was really funny was that another french family had just arrived and said “Calimari?- we’ll take it” within 5 seconds of sitting down. Then they started making jokes about fast food. Beer in Panama- standard stuff, nothing special. But the sauce on the table- if you like hot sauce and you see it in a specialty store, but it, it’s really tasty.\"panama<\/p>\n


\nAfter dinner we walked around and heard the craziest noise in a low area- who knows how many frogs made this noise (and it was loud!). Listen to the video:<\/p>\n