HOW TO GET BOCAS
FROM DAVID:
By Airplane:
By Car: Interamerican Highway up to entrance to Gualaca (10 Km).
Turn to the left and go to the end of the road to Chiriqui Grande (98 Km) and then, at
Punta Peña, the road to Almirante (68 km), where you can live the car in a parking.
Roads are paved, in good condition. Beautiful views in the mountains.
By Bus: take the bus to Almirante in the city terminal.
By car or by bus: in Almirante take a marine taxi ($4 - 30 minutes) or a ferry boat (1 hour) to Bocas.
The ferry boat Almirante/Bocas del Toro only runs mondays to saturdays.
FROM PANAMA CITY:
By Airplane:
By Car: Interamerican Highway up to entrance to Gualaca (404 Km).
Turn to the right and go to the end of the road to Chiriqui Grande (98 Km) and then, at
Punta Peña, the road to Almirante (68 km), where you can live the car in a parking.
Roads are paved, in good condition. Beautiful views in the mountains.
By Bus: Take the bus
to Almirante in the Panama terminal.
By car or by bus:
in Almirante take a marine taxi to Bocas del Toro ($8 - 1 hour).
The ferry boat Almirante/Bocas del Toro only runs from mondays to saturdays.
FROM COSTA RICA:
By Car: Cross the border in Sixaola, then drive to Finca 63 (Changuinola) or Almirante (35 Km).
Road is paved, in good condition. At Finca 63 you can take a marine taxi (
Bocas Marine Tours) to
Bocas del Toro. At Almirante you can leave the car in a parking lot and take a
marine taxi (Expreso 25 and Bocas Marine Tours) to Bocas del Toro.
By Bus:
There are two buses, one from Limon (departs with intervals of 2 hours) that ends
at the border (Sixaola). The other, from San José, that cross the border and ends
at Changuinola. This bus (Transporte Bocatoreño, $ 10) departs from the hotel Cocori, in San Jose, at 9:00 am (local time) daily.
To reach Bocas islands there are also two ways, through Almirante or through Finca 63.
To go to Almirante from Sixaola you can take a taxi ($15) or a bus ($1), or taxi
($5) to the Changuinola bus terminal, and here a bus to Almirante ($1 - 45 minutes).
At Almirante take a marine taxi ($4 - 30 minutes) to Bocas.
To go to Finca 63 (10 minutes away from Changuinola) you can take a bus ($0.50) or a taxi ($1).
At Finca 63, take a marine taxi ( Bocas Marine Tours $ 6 - 60 minutes) to Bocas.
To return to San Jose by bus, Transporte Bocatoreño departs every day at 10:00 am
from the buses terminal in Changuinola.
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