Red Frog Beach, Bocas del Toro, Panama

 

This is an impressive 11ha development offering the best and probably only jungle experience in both comfort and authenticity on Bocas del Toro.

Approaching it by boat, you will disembark on a pontoon leading to extensive mangrove and signs affirming its green credentials. Complimentary golf carts and jungle trucks take you wherever you want to go on the estate. The villas are vast, offering almost palatial space, private pools, huge decks surrounded by palm trees and thick luxuriant vegetation, and state of the art kitchens with top range facilities for longer stays.

There are several small beaches on Red Frog. Ours was right next to one of the restaurants – a beautiful cove backed by tropical forest. This is a bird watcher paradise and we could not even begin to identify all the different species we encountered.

The staff are multi-lingual, extremely friendly, and the resort eminently safe. Even the poisonous red frog which gave the resort its name is hardly ubiquitous (you can go on an island trip that would allow you to see the frogs from a safe distance).

Red Frog Beach is the best possible combination of rain forest and 5 star luxury creature comforts, and if you arrive from Europe in the middle of the winter, simply magical.

Highly recommended are the green coconuts, fresh off the trees, hacked with a machete and offered with a straw for a refreshing and nutrient packed drink.

We spent 2 blissful days there and were able to visit the nearby Bastimentos town on the other side of the island, reached by small boats you can hire at the reception.

 

 

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