Panama City & Bocas del Toro

Meet your guide in the morning and head to the ruins of Old Panama, and trace back the colonial roots of Panama City. You will have the opportunity to visit the cathedral tower to take in the views of the city and visit the Old Panama City Museum to get a deeper understanding of this Central American nation’s history. Continue to the old city compound, the famous Casco Antiguo, and make your way down the picturesque narrow lanes. Visit landmarks such as the Flat Arch, The Cathedral, Las Bovedas and the French Plaza, and learn about the ill-fated attempt of the French to construct a canal through the isthmus. All the while, listen to your guide describe the events that led to the establishment of the capital in its current location.

Your tour concludes with a private transfer back to your accommodation.

• Start time: 9:00am or 1:30pm hotel pick up.
• Duration: 3-4 hours.
• What to wear/bring: Comfortable and fresh clothing, comfortable shoes, hat and sun protection.
• Includes: Private transportation/driver, expert guide, entrance fees, snacks and bottled water.

Early in the morning your guide will meet you in the hotel lobby to begin your journey to the Soberanía National Park. As you leave the Panama City limits, buildings will slowly be replaced by secondary and primary rainforest. You will pass the former Fort Clayton, Miraflores and Pedro Miguel Locks before entering the park.

Here you will board a boat and head off on an adventure across Gatun Lake in the Panama Canal passing by monumental cargo ships transiting the waterway. Along the way, you may spot green iguanas and three-toed sloth resting on tree branches, crocodiles and ospreys in the hunt for peacock bass, snail kite and keel-billed toucan among other wildlife can we observed.

The boat will circle rainforest covered islands, allowing us to observe and search for the mantled howler monkey, white-faced capuchin, and Geoffroy’s tamarin.

• Start time: 7:00am hotel pick up.
• Duration: 3-4 hours.
• What to wear/bring: Comfortable clothing and shoes, hat, sun protection and insect repellent.
• Private transportation/driver, expert guide, entrance fees, snacks, and bottled water.

A Panama Canal and City helicopter tour is a breathtaking way to explore Panama’s most iconic landmarks. The tour usually lasts around 45-55 minutes, providing ample time to see the city’s most famous sights and the Panama Canal.

The highlight of the tour is the awe-inspiring Panama Canal, one of the world’s most impressive engineering feats. As you fly over the canal, you’ll be able to see the locks, gates, and dams that allow ships to pass between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. Throughout the tour, you’ll have plenty of opportunities to take stunning photos and capture memories that will last a lifetime.

As you go back to the helipad, you’ll be able to enjoy stunning aerial views of Panama City’s modern skyline, including the Financial District and the Cinta Costera waterfront promenade. Your pilot will provide interesting facts about the city’s history and culture, adding depth to your experience.

• Start time: TBD.
• Duration: 1 hour.
• What to wear/bring: Comfortable clothing.
• Includes: Helicopter ride.

Early in the morning your guide will meet you in the hotel lobby to begin your journey to the Soberania National Park. As you leave the Panama City limits, buildings will slowly be replaced by secondary and primary rainforest. You will pass the former Fort Clayton, Miraflores and Pedro Miguel Locks before entering the park. This will be a 45-minute drive along the scenic Gamboa Road to one of the many trailheads waiting for you to explore. Your hiking tour will be tailored to your physical abilities and interests. The Soberania National Park is one of the most accessible national parks in Panama, known for both birdwatching and wildlife observation.

• Start time: 7:00 am hotel pick up.
• Duration: 5-6 hours.
• What to wear/bring: Comfortable clothing and shoes, hat, sun protection and insect repellent.
• Difficulty: Easy
• Distance: Minimum 3km.
• Includes: Private transportation/driver, expert guide, entrance fees, snacks, and bottled water.

Early in the morning you will be picked up your hotel and transferred to El Corotu; on the shores of Madden Lake. Here we will board a motorized piragua (dugout canoe) and travel through dense jungle up the Chagres River to one of the Embera indigenous villages for the day experience.

The boat journey takes you through the 320,000-acre Chagres National Park, which is the largest of the National Parks protecting the Panama Canal Watershed.  Along the Chagres River, you may be able to spot the little blue and green heron, great egret, anhinga, neotropical cormorant and green kingfishers, and ospreys flying above.

Upon our arrival at the Embera village, we will be welcomed with traditional dancing and music. You will learn about fascinating Embera traditions and their close relationship with nature. They are master artisans, famous for their woven baskets and masks, as well as their qualitative wooden carvings of cocobolo and intricate tagua.

There will be handcrafts available for sale and you will have the chance to be painted with the traditional jagua, a natural dye the Embera use to adorn their bodies. After a traditional Embera lunch we will head back to Panama City.

• Start time: 8:00am hotel pick up.
• Duration: 5-6 hours.
• What to wear/bring: Comfortable clothing and shoes, hat, insect repellant and sun protection.
• Includes: Private transportation/driver, expert guide, entrance fees, snacks, bottled water and lunch.

• Duration: 3 hours.
• Visit to Bastimento with/ without hike or sunset sailing.
• Includes soft drinks.
• Sailboat Don Juan.