We invite you to discover and live an experience like no other.

We will take you to meet 2 of the indigenous groups in Panama, where you will have the opportunity to meet and learn about their fascinating traditions, customs, culture and way of life

Our first approach will be with the Guna Yala region. A Panamanian paradise!! The San Blas archipelago (formerly known as the Mulatas archipelago) is a group of 365 small islands and islets belonging to Panama located off the north coast of the Isthmus, east of the Panama Canal, of which only about 80 are inhabited. It is the home of the Guna indigenous people, who are part of the Guna Yala comarca along the Caribbean coast of Panama.

After enjoying this little paradise we will continue with our adventure and we will go to the province of Darién, one of the regions with the greatest natural and cultural resources of the Republic of Panama, currently its great natural wealth is favored by the low density of its population. which is at the same time culturally rich, has 3 main cultural groups: the Indigenous community (Emberá-Wounaan), the Afro-descendant population (Afro-Colonial) and the peasant or interior population (immigrants from the Central and Northern part of Panama), in addition of other populations of lower density, which have learned to share and coexist harmoniously over the years.

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Includes:

  • Transfer Tocumen International Airport – City Hotel – Tocumen International Airport
  • 03 nights of lodging at the Hotel El Panama / Standard Room with breakfast (hotel taxes included)
  • Transfer Panama City – Puerto Cartí – San Blas Island
  • Entrance taxes to the Region and visit to the Islands.
  • 02 nights of lodging in the cabins of Isla Diablo / simple-rudimentary cabins with full board
  • Visit to the Sugdup Community
  • Visit to Dog Island, Natural Pool, Pelican Island and Isa Aroma or Iguana Island
  • Transfer Puerto Cartí – Llano Cartí – Metetí (lunch on the route)
  • 01 night lodging at Hostal Crown Darién / Single room – dinner and breakfast outside the hostel
  • Transfer Metetí – Puerto Quimba – Playa Muerto Community
  • 02 nights of Lodging in the Community House / (they sleep on mattresses on the floor with mosquito nets) / with full board without drinks
  • Transfer Playa Muerto Community – Puerto Quimba – Panama City (lunch en route)
  • Excursion City Tour with Visit to the Miraflores Visitors Center (Canal)

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Not Includes:

  • Air tickets
  • Food or drinks not described in the itinerary
  • Excursions not described in the itinerary
  • Personal expenses
  • Tips
  • PCR

Observations

  • Non-commissionable net rates / Prices per person according to group size and room layout
  • Program operates with a minimum of 4 pax
  • Rates subject to change without prior notice.
  • Prices and spaces subject to availability
  • Prices expressed in USD
  • The disclaimer must be delivered at the time of confirmation of services.

ITINERARY

Day 1 – Welcome to Panama City (-/-/-)

Reception at the airport by our representative and transfer to your hotel in the city. Check in and overnight.

Day 2 – Guna Yala Region (-/L/D)

The expedition starts very early, between 5:00 a.m. to 5:30 a.m. We will pick you up at the hotel and we will go to an indigenous reserve. We must carry our original passport to enter! Upon boarding our 4x4 vehicle, we start the trip heading northeast, traveling for about 3 hours along the Pan-American Highway and the El Llano-Cartí connection while enjoying an imposing landscape dominated by the mountains of the Cordillera Central and then contrasting with the turquoise blue of the Sea. Caribbean that awaits us. **During this journey we will have one or two supply and break stops. Once at the Cartí dock, we will board a boat with an outboard motor that will take us to our first stop; the native community Sugdup, where we will have a cultural immersion (Kuna Museum, Kuna Dance and Cultural Coexistence).

There we will have the opportunity to share with the gunas, you will learn about their customs and traditions. We will also have the opportunity to enjoy their traditional dances that are danced by men and women to the sound of flutes and maracas that recreate the movement of nature.

We will visit a small museum where we will learn why the Kuna Indians still keep their traditions and customs intact despite the changes that surround them.

Once we finish our tour in the community, we will continue to Isla Diablo where we will enjoy a delicious lunch.

We will have all afternoon to enjoy the best and paradisiacal islands of San Blas surrounded by coral reefs such as Isla Perro where the famous sunken ship and the natural pool are.

  After enjoying the paradisiacal islands of San Blas, we will return to Isla Diablo for dinner and rest.

Day 3 – Visit to different Islands of this charming Archipelago (B/L/D)

After breakfast, we will board the boat to go to Pelican Island. It is one of the few islands where there are not many people, bordered by beautiful coral formations where it is ideal to snorkel along with the different colored fish.

After visiting Pelican Island, we will move to another island between Aroma Island or Iguana Island. For lunch and enjoy the beaches or just sunbathe or read under a coconut palm.

Once our last visit is over, we will return to Isla Diablo. There we will continue enjoying the beaches.

Day 4 – Guna Yala Region – Metetí (B/L/D)

After breakfast we will go to the port of Carti to take the 4x4 car to the Carti plain, there we will meet our guides who will accompany us on our next adventure.

From El Llano in Cañitas, we will meet our guide at approximately 11:00 am. After crossing the team to our 4x4 double cabin car, we will leave in the direction of Darién along the Inter-American highway, after approximately 2 hours they will make a routine stop at the SENAFRONT Control point, which is normal and routine to enter now. to the province of Darién, they will continue to Metetí, which would be the place where we will have lunch in a local restaurant.

After lunch, we will go to our hostel. Rest of the afternoon free. Dinner / Overnight

Day 5 – Playa Muerto Community (B/L/D)

The adventure begins with a good breakfast at 6:00 am, then we will take our transportation to Puerto Quimba, where we will take our transportation. From here we will begin to notice part of one of the three most important ecosystems for the planet, the mangroves, fabulous mangroves of more than 40 meters of height, the same ones that will wrap us in a scenic beauty that opens us step by step to an estuary zone of more than 25 square km, where the main Rivers of Darién converge.

The tour by water, we do it by boat for about 3 hours crossing the Gulf of San Miguel to the Community of Playa Muerto. Hopefully; this crossing gives us the opportunity to see dolphins that are normally found within the gulf. Once the open sea, the opportunity to see whales in their feeding passage through Panama, complements the trip to Playa Muerto.

Upon arrival at Playa Muerto, the locals of the community will prepare a lunch; The group Noco with its people will welcome (it is a cultural part of this Embera community, to hug and kiss visitors).

After Lunch, you will take a walk to recognize the community sites and for the community to welcome you as well

We will go to the school where visitors, if they like, can donate school supplies and be able to appreciate a little how this group tries to maintain an ancestral culture, seeking in education the way not to be forgotten in time.

We will also take a walk to the viewpoint and the natural waterfall that is within the community.

At night, dinner and a visit by a group of men and women will go on to talk with the visitors and share a night to meet the visitors and make themselves known.

Note:

  • Food from this day forward will be in the hands of the best cooks in this community.
  • To rest we will have available mattresses with mosquito nets and camping hammocks, you only have to choose one of the two.
  • Customers can provide notebooks, pencils, colored pencils, crayons, etc. for the school

Day 6 – Cultural Day / The Daily Life of an Embera Family (B/L/D)

This day, one of the families will open the doors of their home to us to share the activities of daily living.

  • We will walk with them to their farming and hunting areas and where they have their barnyard animals.
  • We will support this day to be productive and a cultural experience for visitors so they can appreciate a unique culture that struggles to stay alive.

We will learn to pound rice, the use of mills and much more in one day with the Emberas

After lunch, we take an hour of rest to continue learning more about the Embera culture and especially about the Jagua painting that has been used for generations to paint on special occasions, for camouflage, for sunscreen, natural repellent and much more.

All families at sunset will share their crafts made by hands by both men and women, a technique that has been preserved from generation to generation.

After dinner, we will have a party night in the Embera style and its ancestral dances, a very traditional form of the Emberas, mark the lives of those who visit them

Note:

The rest of the afternoon they can paint themselves, dress if you wish as if they were one more member.

Day 7 – Return to Panama City (B/L/-)

This day after breakfast, we will take the morning to be able to leave these coasts, heading to the Gulf of San Miguel, Puerto Quimba.

This tour will take approximately 3 hours. Upon arrival at Puerto Quimba your transportation will be waiting to take you back to your hotel in Panama City.We will have lunch on the road.

Once completed we continue our journey to Panama City.Check in / Overnight

Day 8 – City & Canal Tour (B/-/-)

After breakfast, our experienced guide will pick you up at your hotel. On the way to the Miraflores Visitor Center at the Panama Canal, he will tell you about the history and operational performance of this wonder in motion.

From the observation decks, prepare your camera to capture 180° of the best view of the Pacific entrance of the waterway. According to the *ship transit schedule, observe live and in full color, the passage of ships through the Canal.

Continuing our tour, we will make a panoramic view of the Amador Causeway Islands, a landfill that connects four islands of the Bay of Panama and makes you feel inside the sea. The all-in-one view will allow you to see from a single point and at the same time, the modern city, the Old Town, the Bridge of the Americas, the island of Taboga and the ships entering and leaving the Panama Canal. Take some free time to enjoy the sea breeze, have a drink in one of its many restaurants and before leaving, take advantage of one of the daily offers of the famous "Duty Free", a duty-free store at your fingertips.

Finally, we will take a panoramic tour of the Old Town, a city of colonial origin that dates back to 1673 and that is still more alive and thriving than ever. Beautiful civil monuments and churches of colonial, baroque and neoclassical architecture merge with enthusiastic local passers-by and visitors who enjoy open-air restaurants, bars, hotels, craft shops and live music (in the evenings), all surrounded by the waters. from Pacific.

At the end of the tour, you will have the option that we can leave you at your hotel, or at a city shopping center and you return to the hotel on your own

Day 9 – Panama City / Return (B/-/-)

According to your travel schedule, transfer to the airport and farewell.

Thank you for your visit / End of Our Services

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