Sixaola Vacations, Sixaola Vacation Reviews, Tourism Guide

Sixaola.  A true border town - a place you have to go to but wouldn´t normally choose to visit. It´s dusty, watchful and transitory.  Costarricenes and Panamanians seem free to come and go as they please: Residents of Panama carry bags across the bridge for Westerners, whereas a seemingly constant procession of school children pass betweent he countries.  Border patrol-men with sub-machine guns don´t seem to phase the locals too much.  Indeed, they didn´t phase me too ...

Costa Rica - Panama 05-06

My plan had originally been to take the 6:30am bus but I was undecided as to whether I wanted to watch some more of Cliff's videos. In the end I thought it best to move on though and got a ticket on the 10:30am bus to the border.The border crossing was pretty easy. I didn't even have to pay any exit tax in Costa Rica nor get a tourist card in Panama due to my German passport (US and British citizens seem to need them though). I hope this doesn't come back to bite me later but I double checked...

A dirty hot reasonably uneventful boarder crossing, but with a very interesting, dilapidated bridge shared by the trucks and foot traffic to and from Costa Rica/Panama.