Monkey Island & Eco Tour from City Hotels

We will pick you up from your city hotel (travelling time to the embarking point could be an average of one hour long depending on the location of ... See more

We will pick you up from your city hotel (travelling time to the embarking point could be an average of one hour long depending on the location of your hotel or the number of pick up points for that day and traffic conditions).This is a lake adventure of the sounds and sights of the tropical rainforest. We will move to the public pier in the Gatun Lake after transiting in one of the picturesque internal roads used once to communicate the towns and military bases with the canal support buildings. We will board a small vessel to sail alongside the big ships transiting the Canal after going under a wooden bridge where the transithsmian railroad passes. This itself is a powerful experience of watching the canal from its guts. We will stop at Monkey Island to watch in close proximity the Topical rain forest that supports the functioning of the Panama Canal. We slow to a cruising speed as we motor along the forested banks of the lake, also a protected area, and we will look for wildlife such as Capuchin Monkeys, 3 toed sloths, Howler Monkeys, various kinds of Toucans and other bird life. When we approach the Monkey Island the excitement will bring your adrenaline levels up in anticipation to these cute animals come to the boat waiting to be feed, by the approved natural foods, that you will be handling out. Extremely educational and cool for the small kids that might be part of your group. After leaving the monkey area we will boat you to the pier to board the vehicle that will take you to Summit Botanical park and Zoo located in the Soberania National Park. The area was formerly a research facility responsibly for the introduction of the Teak tree in Panama and converted at a later date into a botanical park and finally to the zoo that now is home of the national bird of Panama, the Harpy eagle. Finally we will return back to your Panama city hotel. See less