I can't believe we're up before 5:00 a.m... to go to the San Blas Islands! Woot Woot WOot!
Alright in this video we're gonna see how the San Blas islands are and if they're worth
going. They're pretty expensive but I think they're gonna be fun
let's do this
Alright so in this video I'm give you the pros and cons of visiting the San Blas
Islands, Panama. A breakdown of cost, amenities, how we booked it, what to
expect and an overall guide of a few of the San Blas Islands you might want to
visit. We booked our visit to the San Blas Islands through a tour company
online. They pick you up from your hotel in Panama City early in the morning, take
you shopping. What is that oh it's one of those and we were off. I tried to life hack
and save money by booking everything myself and cutting out the middleman
but it's impossible. The cheapest and easiest way to do it is booking it
through a tour company. Oh and apparently Panama City is the only place in the
world where the Sun rises in the West. This was our sunrise looking out towards
the Pacific Ocean in Panama City. If anyone can tell me why or how that works
please tell me in the comment section below because it still seems kind of
strange why it looked like that. Anyways it only took us four hours to get from
Panama City to San Blas Islands. The last hour on the roads are pretty rough but
it's still drivable. If you do it yourself it'll probably take you an
additional hour so just take your time and enjoy
the views! Now let's get to the San Blas Islands!
welcome to Chichime Island. We walked around maybe halfway through this island and
it's so gorgeous I can't wait to explore the rest of it. Let's see what the San Blas Islands are all
about
I hope I'm saying this right but we were staying on Chichime Island. I highly
highly recommend staying on this island. It seemed to be so much larger than a
lot of the other islands you can stay on and although they're all super
photogenic I just loved how much space we seem to have to roam around if we
wanted to
Alright so we're waiting for lunch. You haven't ate all day so you're hungry? I am so hungry, lunch time! lunch time!
A traditional Guna people lunch! You're hoping for lobster? Lobster, Crab, Shrimp? I'm not sure but yeah
let's find out what we got! The food is actually decent, super fresh
but it's not very fulfilling. If you're on a diet you'll do good here. Alright
so it's just about one o'clock we're gonna see what these tours are all about
they do like one tour a day they just randomly pick where they want to go that
day and we're gonna see where we're gonna go let's do it. Alright so our
first stop is here at Weiss Island. We got 20 minutes here, it looks like where
people go camping if they want to camp San Blas Islands and yeah this is
Weis Island
so our first stop is Weis Island because they had a deal
the people of Weiss Island and the people of Chichime Island had a deal that
they're gonna tour there their people to our Island and in return we
toured here and that's it. Nothing special, same thing. Is that even true? I
don't know if that's true or not but it might be. So that was the island on our
first stop. Wasn't much but look at that view, absolutely stunning.
Next we voted out to the natural pool. If you don't know yet the San Blas Islands
are basically a huge sandbar so here's your opportunity to mingle with other
people from the other islands and feel like you're swimming out in the middle
of the ocean. It was honestly a lot of fun just watch out for jellyfish. We're
on shipwrecked island, it's very populated, tons of people here and
is not very interesting.. the final stop on our tour was shipwreck island. This is
the famous island with the sunken ship. The first thing I noticed was this place
was very crowded and the island was super small. Just like the previous
island we visited you can easily walk around the entire island in about 10
minutes. Which maybe you wouldn't consider disadvantage but there's
definitely a lot of day tours that run through here so I wouldn't recommend
staying on this island and I definitely wouldn't recommend using their rental
equipment either. They were so old and used but lucky enough someone let me use
their snorkeling equipment and GoPro. It was my first time using a GoPro so it
isn't the best footage but here's the famous sunken ship. So back on Chichime
island this is sort of what you should expect to get for dinner. Again
not very fulfilling but super fresh.
Alright let's go check out our private hunt, it's about two hundred dollars per
person, you get to the sandy floors.. the main bed, you can get three people in here if
you want to bring a friend or your mother or whoever you want and a little
table. No electricity but the best part of all this is right behind you..
We end up only staying for one night and paying around $200 per person
so it isn't cheap. There is a big discount if you stay longer but I think
I'm actually okay with only having stayed the one night. Two nights might
have been the perfect amount of time but with the lack of amenities and I could
easily imagine limited water and showers in the summer. So anything longer would
have been kind of rough especially for what you're paying. One last thing I should
share with you is we were visiting in November and it seemed like nobody was
here. It was the off season but I'm pretty sure we were the only ones
staying in a private cabin. Which was shocking but good to know if you want to
avoid the crowds. If others have visited the San Blas islands, Chichime island in
particular, I'd be curious to know when, where and how busy it is during the
Summer. What is it? Oh I see him. It's a crab.
Come on crabby. We should catch it!
You catch it from the top and then hold it from the back.
Oh where'd it go? It's gone..
So thanks for watching. Any comments, questions leave it in the comment section
below. Like the video and until later, I'll see you later!