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1st day:

Northeast Costa Rica / Bocas del Toro, Panama

Very early in the morning you will be picked up by our driver at your hotel.  He will escort you across the border of Costa Rica and Panama reaching it about noon.  After settlement of boundary formalities that will last about half an hour our trip goes further, close to Changuinola Town.  There you will board a water taxi that will bring you within an hour to Bocas del Toro Village in a trip across waterways, among mangrove vegetation . The village, which has the same name as of entire region, lies on the largest island of the archipelago, Colon Island. In the afternoon, you will reach your hotel and have enough time to explore the village. To rent bicycles or sea kayaks is a good option to get acquainted with surrounding area.

Lodging hotel Bahia*** – lunch

°°° Northeast of Costa Rica being the following towns:  Puerto Viejo de Talamanca, Cahuita, Sixaola

2nd day:

Bocas del Toro

You will start at 9.30 a.m. an entire day tour in motorboat.  After a short trip along the banks of islands covered with mangroves, you will reach Dolphin Bay.  Once there,  you will not have to wait long  for dolphins to show up since they are usually attracted by motors sound and they will swim lively around you.  Later your trip continues to two very little islands, the Cayos Zapatillos, confessed as the two most untouched islands with the prettiest sand beaches of the entire island group.  You will have a picnic here, at the beach, and bathe while your imagination takes you away to past adventures of the famous pirate, Captain Henry Morgan, who buried his treasure on the southern part of the island.  Around 5 p.m. you will return to your hotel.

Lodging hotel Bahia*** –  breakfast, lunch

3rd day:

Bocas del Toro

Today you will explore the submarine world of the islands.  About 9 o'clock in the morning, you can receive, as an option, an introduction to snorkeling.  Then, you will take off around 9.30 a.m. to a new entire exciting day tour in motorboat. You will reach The Hospital Point where you can gather immediately your first experiences with sea inhabitants.  A yet more impressive place for snorkeling waits for you at CayoCrawl, characterized by untouched coral and innumerable fishes.  About noon, you will have a typical meal  in a restaurant built with wooden piles over the water.  Next,  the trip continues further into The Bastimentos Island where you will hike across it on a short path within 15 minutes from one side to the other.  You will spend the afternoon at the Red Frog Beach, and find out for yourself why it is called like that.  Around 5 p.m., you will return to your hotel.

Lodging hotel Bahia *** – breakfast, lunch

4th day:

Bocas del Toro, Panama City

You will take a morning fly from Bocas del Toro to Panama City where you will discover its history visiting  “Panama Viejo”(Colonial Panama), “El Casco Viejo”(Old Panama) and Modern Panama City.  You will also visit Panama Canal Locks. 

Lodging Hotel Granada**** – breakfast, lunch

5th day:

Chagres National Park,  Jungle Expedition

Your driver will pick you up at 5 o'clock in the morning at your hotel and take you in an all-terrain vehicle to the remote San Cristobal Village, which is further away from the mountain village Cerro Azul.  After a typical breakfast, you will hike on a narrow path deeper in the  jungle.  Within  1.5 hours you will reach the Piedras River, a tributary of the Chagres River,  where you will board rafts and head into the depths of the untouched jungle of Chagres National Park.  About noon, an outdoor lunch  will be served on the riverbanks.   Later in the afternoon, in a suitable place in the jungle, you will erect with our guides a tent camp for the night.  Afterwards, they will prepare a delicious meal for you.

Lodging tent camp – breakfast, lunch, supper

6th day:

Chagres National Park, Santa Clara

After  breakfast you will continue in rafts further downstream, until you reach Madden Lake.  There our Embera native guides in their long wooden boats with outboard motor expect you, to take you to their village.  There, our guides will explain you their culture perfectly adapted to rain forest environment.  You will also visit a place called Natural Bridge, where a river flows in a cave thorough a mountain.  Then, you will be taken to the nearest road where your driver will take you back to civilization and to Santa Clara Beach.  In a beautiful hotel, pampered by the sound of the Pacific Ocean, you will have  the remaining afternoon to relax.

Lodging Cabañas Veraneras – breakfast, lunch, supper

7th day:

Santa Clara - Volcan

You will spend the morning at the beach.  After lunch you will continue your journey toward the west and up to Volcan in the mountain region of Chiriqui Province, where a cooler climate

will surprise you.  Around dinnertime you will reach your hotel. The rest of the evening you can stroll around enjoying the fresh and cool air.

Lodging Bambito Camping Resort –breakfast, lunch, dinner

8th day:

Volcan, Paso Canoas

After breakfast you will head early in the morning towards Paso Canoas, by the border with Costa Rica. Nearby you depart for a breathtaking and wild Class IV rafting tour on the Chiriqui Viejo River.  The tearing river passes through  canyons and spectacular waterfalls characterize it.  Depending on the water level we will be in the river around three to four hours on a stretch of 14 km whereby we master a heights difference of 180 ms (approximately 13 ms per km).  After that you set off to Paso Canoas to cross the boundary back to Costa Rica.

breakfast, lunch

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