Bocas Del Toro, Panama Cruise Port

• If you're looking for an offbeat excursion, visit La Gruta (The Cavern), whose entrance has a statue of the Virgin Mary keeping watch. Although it's not snorkeling, you'll still have to wade through water, while thousands of sleeping bats surround you. It's kind of like being in a real-life adventure movie.
   
• This is a bird watcher's best-kept secret: although the jungles here are teeming with birds, it's not a well-developed activity here yet. If you're looking for land or sea birds, you'll find plenty of both, including the Red-billed Tropic Bird, brown pelican, doves, hummingbirds, and many others.
   
• Although there are plenty of activities on Bocas del Toro, you won’t run into many museums or art galleries. Instead, the locals like to focus on the area’s culture. Many cruise lines offer shore excursions to indigenous villages that are scattered around the island so you can immerse yourself in their daily lives.
   
• Lovers of marine life will delight in the marine turtles (including the hawksbill, the loggerhead, the leatherback, and the green turtle) that nest on the coasts of Bocas Del Toro. Migration takes place in July and August, and a guided tour will provide not only information, but extra care so that turtles are not disturbed.