We pick you up at your Panama City hotel and drive to Gamboa where we will join our naturalist guide for this lake adventure of sight and sound.

First, we travel at high speed on small boats northbound (Atlantic) on the canal for 25 minutes where we might come close to some of the big ships that transit the canal daily and then we slow to a cruising speed.

Slowly, we motor along the forested banks of Gatun Lake, also a protected area, and we look for wildlife such as Capuchin Monkeys, 3 toed sloths, Howler Monkeys, various kinds of Toucans and other bird life.

Next we dock along an old rehabilitated pier that served a top-secret US Naval radio communications center until the end of World War II. Here we walk up a series of steps and along a 300-yard trail that leads to the ruins of this hidden military installation. We then will return to the hotel.

Binoculars are highly recommended.

TOUR HIGHLIGHTS