Monkey Tour Adventure with Gamboa Rainforest Nature Walk
- 6 hours
- Free cancellation up to 24h before
- 2 languages
- Instant confirmation
Highlights
Start this fascinating journey with pickup by your English-speaking naturalist guide. This tour is friendly for seniors, kids, and families, with small groups designed for a more personal and comfortable experience. All our guides are naturalists with great knowledge of Gamboa and its wildlife. We will drive about 45 minutes to Gamboa, where we board a covered expedition boat for a comfortable morning ride through the Panama Canal. Along the way, you may see giant ships passing near our boat as we explore Gatun Lake and its islands looking for monkeys and wildlife. After the boat tour, we stop at a local cafeteria in Gamboa, where guests can use the restrooms and buy cold drinks or snacks. Then we enjoy a short, easy nature walk in the Gamboa area to experience the rainforest from the inside and look for more nature. After the walk, we drive to Ciudad del Saber for lunch at a local restaurant (not included). Return to your hotel around 1:30–2:00 p.m.
Inclusions
What's included
- Boat, captain, english speaking tour guide and land transportation.
What's not
- We stop for lunch on the way back to Panama city but is not included
- Gratuities
Itinerary
We start the day with and early pick up at your hotel by our naturalist tour guide, we will drive to the area of gamboa to aboard and expedition boat to navigate on the waters of the Panama canal, after pass the dredging division of the canal we will reach the gatun lake to visit different islands with monkeys and wildlife.
When we finish our navigation at the Panama canal, we continue to Gamboa for restrooms and our nature walk, during this part of the tour you will see the rainforest from the inside and will be a great opportunity to spot birds and more wildlife.
We stop at a plaza with different options for lunch (not included)
Cancellation
Free cancellation up to 24 hours before the experience starts, for a full refund.
Reviews
4.8
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Know before you go
- Meeting point
- Public marina of gamboa
- Pickup
- Pickup is offered, or you can meet at the starting point.
- Ticket type
- Mobile or paper ticket accepted
- Group size
- Up to 12 travellers
- Operated by
- Manakin Adventures Panama
- Wheelchair accessible
- Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
- Infants are required to sit on an adult’s lap
- Not recommended for pregnant travelers
- Travelers should have at least a moderate level of physical fitness
How it compares in Gamboa
- Its from-price is 18% above the median of the 20 experiences we list in Gamboa.
- Its length is typical for the group.
- By number of reviews it ranks 5 of 20.
- The operator lists free cancellation on it.
About Gamboa
Gamboa is a small rainforest town where the Chagres River meets the Panama Canal, with wildlife trails, Pipeline Road birdwatching and Gatún Lake nearby.
Gamboa sits on the Panama Canal at the point where the Chagres River joins it, about 25 kilometres north-west of Panama City, a quiet settlement of canal-era houses on the edge of Soberanía National Park. Big ships pass close to the shore in the Culebra Cut, and a research station of the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute studies the forest. The Rainforest Discovery Center, with an observation tower, stands near the start of Pipeline Road.
Top-ranked sights in Gamboa: Panama Rainforest Discovery Center.
