Islas Secas is not a private island, it is a privately owned group of 16 little islands 12 miles off Panama’s Pacific Coast. Whether or not you want to feel like a outcast on your honeymoon, with all the comforts then Islas Secas could well be the place for your private island honeymoon.
Islas Secas is a unique kind of resort built very unquestionably with the expression eco friendly in mind, and is the ideal honeymoon destination for couples who just do not want the 5 star crowded all singing dancing resorts that are found throughout the world today.
There are two ways to arrive at Islas Secas, either by boat to the drifting dock on Cavada the greatest of the islands, where you will be met by the whole staff. The dock is drifting due to the incredible rise and fall of the tide in the Pacific, such a lot so that the 16 foot tide empties the bay every low tide.
Whether or not you fly in you will arrive on the resort’s private plane after a one hour flight from Panama City, and once again be met by the staff line up.
You’ll be shown to your own totally secluded ocean view guest bungalow known as a ‘Casita’, and there are only six all told in the whole resort. They are round and very elaborate semi permanent tents on a concrete base. There are windows all the way round to see to it you will be cooled by the sea breezes because there is no airconditioning.
Each Casita has solar electricity, which gives sufficient power for low voltage lights hot water, and little fans. All designed to have as little impact as possible on the environs.
The casitas all have fantastic opinions , and covered areas alongside known as a Ranchito which has hammocks and seating. Everything is totally private thanks to the way it is having been landscaped with tropical foliage, with convenient gaps to get enjoyment from the opinions of the beach and the sky which at night is spectacular.
What you do on Islas Secas is very much up to you. This luxuriousness private island is a luxuriousness escape a luxuriousness total getaway from all the pressure of 21st Century life. So whether or not you actually want to get away, then this is the place to be.
There are a number of activenesses to be undertaken, with the scuba diving and big game fishing rather brilliant whether or not that is what you want to do. One of the fine-looking things regarding these waters off Panama where Islas Secas is located is the whole lack of persons. This means not one thing has been ruined or lessened by tourism because there is merely nobody here. Put another way, there are not anyone’s footprints on the beaches.
You could make an executive decision after taking counsel from the very knowledgeable staff to become a outcast for the day. You could be taken in the morning on the resort’s boat to Pargo Island complete with picnic lunch, beach umbrellas towels, snorkelling. You may spend all day there, and you will feel very much like Robinson Crusoe. The island is everything you ever thought a little deserted tropical island would be. The powder sand, shells, driftwood, with a backdrop of palm trees and not one footprint apart from the your own – paradise! !
Your choices at the end of such a glorious day, and naturally you may well have gone fishing at Hannibal Banks or surfing at Morro Negro, you may then visit the Spa for any number of treatments to relax you and comfort any tired muscles in preparation for happy hour at 5pm at La Terraza a beach side terrace to drink cocktails and talk about the days actions with other guests in preparation for the feast that is dinner.
Then tomorrow, with possibly a lot of hiking, shell hunting, hobie cats, snorkeling, whatsoever, this is such a neat hideaway.
Islas Secas isn’t for the Gucci Loafer, Radisson Hotel type, but very much for the couple or family who want an escape, with no TV’s or cellphones, just peace, solitude on one of the best private islands anyplace with a lot of of the best hosts anyplace in addition.