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Panama is a country so small, yet filled with lush rainforests, wildlife, and a rich cultural heritage. On your discovery you'll to view the Panama Canal, ride the first transcontinental train, and snorkel in the Caribbean Sea. You'll travel by motorized canoe and visit an Embera Village, where villagers live in traditional thatched huts. In the Highlands you'll zip through the cloud forest canopy on a zip line and experience coffee from bean to cup.
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Explore the Panamá Canal as you voyage across Lake Gatun, and also actually sail through the canal! You'll visit two thriving indigenous cultures, the Kuna of San Blas (stunning Caribbean islands pictured here) and the Embera of the Chagres River basin. The highlands will immerse you in an entirely different environment, surrounded by cloud forest environments filled with life, where you can hike and visit a coffee plantation. You'll also tour cosmopolitan Panama City. This is the best of Panamá!
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This is an in-depth exploration of avian diversity across the isthmus. Bird watching in Panama can be very easy and rewarding. Its geographical position allows contact with two great mother lodes of avian diversity. This comprehensive tour covers all major birding sites, and is guided by some of the best bird guides in the country. In total the country of Panama boasts an impressive list of over 960 species.
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Experience a family vacation at the best places in Panama, from the Pacific coast and the Panama Canal to the western highlands to the Caribbean coast. You'll visit two Indian villages, Embera and Nobe Bugle, have the opportunity to zip line, take a boat and canoe ride, visit the Smithsonian Marine Exhibition and swim in the Caribbean! This is a perfect vacation for young and old!
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An exploration to find the Harpy Eagle, the world’s most powerful bird of prey and Panama’s national bird. This unforgettable adventure takes place along the historic Gulf of San Miguel, accessable by boat. Explore the Punta Patiño Reserve on foot, stay overnight in a thatched roof cabana with the indigeneous peoples of the Embera Mogue community and hike through primary rainforest to the nest of the Harpy Eagle!
As of January 2010, the eagle is nesting!
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Centuries before construction began on the Panama Railroad and Canal, the 'path between the seas' was just that: a Spanish-built cobblestone thoroughfare winding 50 miles across the Central American isthmus. You can now follow in their footsteps, hiking the Camino Real through the rainforest of Chagres Park. This is true adventure! You'll tent camp for three nights, and spend one night in an Embera Indian village, culminating at the Caribbean sea.
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On August 15, 1914 the SS Ancon made the first official ocean-to-ocean transit through the Panama Canal. This event changed the world forever, was possible thanks to the labor of more than 75,000 men and women who worked for 10 years facing unprecedented challenges. Your comfortable passenger ferry take you from the Pacific to the Atlantic. Now it is your time to travel the 8th Wonder of the World. Every visitor to Panama must take a transit through the Panama Canal!
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The Panamonte Culinary School by Charlie Collins is Panama’s elite, premium cooking school in the highland town of Boquete. Under the direction of Charlie Collins, the school offers guests an authentic culinary experience that combines local foods and culture with sophisticated tastings.
Read about our Tasting Dinner, honoring Jean & Barbara of JB Journeys
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The pristine valley of Cana in the eastern slope of Pirre mountain range is Darien National Park’s most productive birdwatching destination. Nowhere else in Panama does nature expresses itself so abundantly than in this region of remote wilderness. Bird two different habitats:Cana Field Station and Pierre Cloud Forest. On foot, tent camping and in the Field Station - no cars here!
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The Three Sisters Global Gourmet Cooking School have added a new item to their menu of tours!
Fresh Buns, Organics, Orchids, Frogs and a Tipico Panamanian Meal Served in a Tipico Panamanian Home with not-so Tipico El Valleians!
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The Three Sisters Global Gourmet Cooking School, located in the charming village of El Valle de Anton, is offering half day culinary classes in Panamanian Cuisine. Chef Glenn Gamboa’s classes are unlike any other offered in Panama; the course core focuses on the anthropological, cultural and historical components of the local foodways in addition to the actual construction. Choose between Typico and Vegetarian Cuisines.
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Crewed yacht charters in Panama’s Caribbean San Blas Archipelago
One of the most beautiful parts of Panama is located along the Caribbean coast: the 365 islands of the San Blas Archipelago are each a real postcard scenery with white sand beaches, coconuts trees and turquoise waters. Today's Kuna Indians inhabit the islands in the same way their ancestors did. Circumnavigators even consider the San Blas archipelago as one of their top 3 destinations in the world!
