Panama City & San Blas: Indigenous & Coastal Wonders

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Overview

  • Arrive in vibrant Panama City and savor local flavors during a traditional folkloric dinner and show.
  • Discover Casco Antiguo’s charm on a guided gastronomic tour featuring ceviche, coffee, chocolate, and craft beer.
  • Witness engineering marvels at the Panama Canal and the mighty Miraflores Locks.
  • Glide across Gatun Lake in search of sloths, monkeys, and toucans amid lush rainforests.
  • Unwind on Santa Clara’s golden shores, where the Pacific meets perfect tropical tranquility.

 

Trip Includes

  • Meet & assist upon arrival & departure at Airports
  • Porters services at Airport and Hotels
  • Transportation in a private A/C Tourist Deluxe Buses
  • Services of Private professional English speaking guide throughout the tour.
  • Entrance fees to all the sites mentioned in the program
  • Mineral water on the vehicle for all tour days
  • 7 Nights hotel stay included
  • 8 Breakfasts, 4 Lunches and 4 dinners (excluding drinks)

 

Trip Excludes

  • All airfares, departure taxes & fuel surcharges, seat selection
  • Flight ticket Bogota - Cartagena one wa
  • Personal items
  • Optional Tours
  • Meals unless listed in itinerary
  • Tips & Gratuities
  • Increase in local tax rates
  • Early check-in & late check out of rooms (standard check-in time is 2pm and check out 10am)
  • Travel Insurance
  • Visa/passport handling fees

 

Summary

Terms and Conditions

Prices are from per person based on twin/double share accommodation, subject to availability and current exchange rates, based on a minimum of 20 passengers, Seasonal surcharges and black-out dates may apply. Please enquire about airfare, single supplements, extensions/changes to itinerary or upgrades.

 

Welcome to Panama, You will be welcomed by our English speaking assistant and be transferred to your hotel for check-in. Standard check-in @3pm. The rest of your day is free at your own leisure. Panama Folkloric Dinner & Show: At night you will be met in the lobby of your hotel and transferred to a Panamanian restaurant. Here you will have the opportunity to taste Panamanian food, made of corn, plantains, yucca, fish, tamale, sancocho (Panamanian chicken soup), pork, seafood, beef and more. After dinner you will enjoy a folkloric show where you will be able to watch the diverse national dancers with their elegant garments. Some of the dances you will witness are the Punta, Travesado and Diablos Sucios, and they are performed with live music using the Panamanian instruments.

Meal

Dinner

 

Arrive Panama

 

Your Accommodation

Le Meridien Panama

On the edge of the Bay of Panama overlooking the old and new quarters of the city, Le Meridien Panama is bounded by charming restaurants and vibrant nightlife. The hotel is located within a few minutes of the financial center and corporate offices. The 111 guest rooms and suites are equipped with modern amenities including marble bathrooms.

Le Meridien Panama

Enjoy Breakfast at your hotel. This fascinating experience will give you an introduction to Panama’s history while tasting some of its gastronomy, which reflects the country’s diversity. As we learn about Panama’s interesting history and how it all came to be as we see it today, you will be able to get a taste of some local traditional food; we’ll have ceviche, chocolate, coffee, beer and lunch, mostly taking place in Casco Antiguo, the colonial section of Panama City. Depending on the time we start the tour, we will be switching the order of places we will visit. However, during this tour, we’ll visit the Seafood Market, where you will have the chance to try a variety of freshly made ceviche. We’ll stop at one of our favorite coffee shops in the area for some local coffee. We’ll have lunch and get a taste of Panamanian flavors and cuisine. How about a chocolate tasting for dessert? We’ll try artisan grown cacao from Bocas del Toro. And lastly, ending our interesting flavorful experience, we will try a variety of beer from a local microbrewery.

Meal

Breakfast, Lunch

 

Gastronomic Tour

 

Your Accommodation

Le Meridien Panama

On the edge of the Bay of Panama overlooking the old and new quarters of the city, Le Meridien Panama is bounded by charming restaurants and vibrant nightlife. The hotel is located within a few minutes of the financial center and corporate offices. The 111 guest rooms and suites are equipped with modern amenities including marble bathrooms.

Le Meridien Panama

Enjoy Breakfast at your hotel. Get an opportunity to marvel at one of the most outstanding wonders of human engineering on Earth on a privately guided visit to the Panama Canal. Today’s experience allows you to visit a number of attractions related to the Canal and its history. See the Panama Canal Administration Building and the Goethals Monument commemorating the chief engineer of the Panama Canal. Visit the Stevens Circle Monument and the former Albrook Military Air Force Station; and head to the Clayton Military Base. Most importantly, visit the renowned Miraflores Locks to see large ships Making their way through the Canal and learn about its operations at the Visitor Center. Your tour concludes as you are transported back to your accommodation.

Meal

Breakfast

 

Panama Canal Tour

 

Your Accommodation

Le Meridien Panama

On the edge of the Bay of Panama overlooking the old and new quarters of the city, Le Meridien Panama is bounded by charming restaurants and vibrant nightlife. The hotel is located within a few minutes of the financial center and corporate offices. The 111 guest rooms and suites are equipped with modern amenities including marble bathrooms.

Le Meridien Panama

Enjoy Breakfast at your hotel. Early in the morning your guide will meet you in the hotel lobby to begin your journey 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, Mira Flores 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 Geoffrey’s tamarin.

Meal

Breakfast

 

Gatun Lake Jungle Boat Tour

 

Your Accommodation

Gamboa Rainforest Resort

Adventure into the jungle on an aerial tram, experience a boat ride on the Panama Canal, or relax by the luxurious pool surrounded by Panama's natural beauty. Whatever your pleasure, adventure and relaxation await you in this enchanting and sumptuous hideaway, just 30 minutes from Panama City. Colorful sights and natural wildlife make the Gamboa Rainforest Resort a truly one-of-a-kind vacation experience. Escape to this jungle paradise as a couple or with the entire family to encounter nature without leaving the comforts of a full-service exotic resort. We invite you to discover Gamboa.

Gamboa Rainforest Resort

Enjoy breakfast at the hotel This cruise offers a unique perspective of wildlife, a journey of 600 meters aboard a gondola that rises above the rainforest to appreciating viewpoints otherwise unachievable on the ground. At a height almost touching the treetops you will have the possibility to see a wide variety of birds that nest there, sloths, and several species of monkeys .At the end of the Aerial Tram tour, you will find an impressive 30-meter high observation tower made. Begin the visit at the first Panama's Sloth Sanctuary where you will learn about the Conservation Program run by the Pan American Conservation Association for this species. If you are an enthusiast of the tropical rainforest flora and fauna, end the visit with various living laboratories where you can appreciate more than 15 species of butterflies, take a look at our curious Frog Pond and learn about native orchids.

Meal

Breakfast

 

Aerial Tram and Sloth Sanctuary

 

Your Accommodation

Gamboa Rainforest Resort

Adventure into the jungle on an aerial tram, experience a boat ride on the Panama Canal, or relax by the luxurious pool surrounded by Panama's natural beauty. Whatever your pleasure, adventure and relaxation await you in this enchanting and sumptuous hideaway, just 30 minutes from Panama City. Colorful sights and natural wildlife make the Gamboa Rainforest Resort a truly one-of-a-kind vacation experience. Escape to this jungle paradise as a couple or with the entire family to encounter nature without leaving the comforts of a full-service exotic resort. We invite you to discover Gamboa.

Gamboa Rainforest Resort

Enjoy breakfast at your hotel. Transfer from Gamboa to Santa Clara with the balance of the day at leisure.

Meal

Breakfast

 

Gamboa to Santa Clara

 

Your Accommodation

Gran Evenia Bijao - All Inclusive

The Bijao Beach Resort Hotel by Evenia is a tourist complex located in the Pacific Riviera of Panama, specifically in the area of Santa Clara. One of its great attractions is its direct access to the beach located in front of the resort. Its complete facilities and magnificent location, in one of the areas with the best weather in Panama, make it the ideal place for a holiday with family or friends. At Evenia Hotels we work to offer a high level of service with all the comforts to make your holiday unforgettable.

Gran Evenia Bijao - All Inclusive

After Breakfast, enjoy at day at leisure to enjoy the resort's facilities.

Meal

Breakfast

 

At leisure in Santa Clara

 

Your Accommodation

Gran Evenia Bijao - All Inclusive

The Bijao Beach Resort Hotel by Evenia is a tourist complex located in the Pacific Riviera of Panama, specifically in the area of Santa Clara. One of its great attractions is its direct access to the beach located in front of the resort. Its complete facilities and magnificent location, in one of the areas with the best weather in Panama, make it the ideal place for a holiday with family or friends. At Evenia Hotels we work to offer a high level of service with all the comforts to make your holiday unforgettable.

Gran Evenia Bijao - All Inclusive

 

Enjoy Breakfast at your hotel. Today we will pick you up at your hotel and transfer you to the airport on time to board your flight.

Meal

Breakfast

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