The Canal Zone highlights and Chiriqui Highlands

 10 Day / 9 Night trip,

Feb. 25 - March 6, 2011 $ 2,725, plus airfare

The Republic of Panama has the most accessible rainforest in the world. With 900 species of birds, 1,500 species of trees, and 10,000 species of plants. Panama is a tropical paradise for nature lovers.

While in the Canal Zone we will stay at the Canopy Tower and Gamboa River Lodge in Soberania National Park, where on excursions into the rain forest, and from the Tower itself, we could see specialties like Black-chested Jay, Blue Cotinga, and Green Shrike-Vireo, as we feast our eyes on innumerable trogons, puffbirds, aracari, toucans, parrots, manakins, motmots, and tanagers. The tours will also visit the Caribbean side of the isthmus for its avian specialities.

This tour will also spend a few days in the highlands of Chiriqui, exploring the cloudforests of Volcan Baru National Park, and the trails above Boquete, looking for Resplendent Quetzal, Sulphur-winged Parakeet, Scintillant Hummingbird, Silvery-throated Jay, Flame-throated and Black-cheeked Warblers.

Our expert naturalist-birding guide on this tour will be Hernan Arauz.

An additional day trip to explore the Miroflores Locks region of the Panama Canal will be available for an additional $300.

Single supplement pricing is available

The detailed itinerary for this tour will be posted soon.