Tranquilo Bay Eco Adventure Lodge

Tranquilo Bay stands on its own patch of Isla Bastimentos in the Bocas del Toro archipelago, where Caribbean reef, mangrove and lowland rainforest meet within a few hundred metres. Cabanas are built from local hardwoods and set among gardens, each with a walk in hot shower and a porch for the birds and howler monkeys that come through on their daily rounds. The main lodge has a wrap around balcony at canopy height, which is where most guests end up at dawn with a coffee.

The lodge is genuinely all inclusive: meals, drinks and guided excursions are part of the rate. You can snorkel coral gardens, kayak mangrove channels, hike Bastimentos National Marine Park, visit Ngobe villages, fish, surf or simply watch. Birders come for the endemics, and the family owners have been logging species here for two decades. Rainwater is harvested and bottled into reusable flasks, and power runs largely off solar.