Local knowledge from guides who grew up here — what to expect, what to bring, and how to make the most of Panama. New guides added every month.
Which falls you can reach on your own, which need a guide, when the water is clearest — and the hidden one worth the hike.
Dugout canoes up the Chagres, the Emberá Drúa community, crafts, a waterfall swim and river-fish lunch.
The boat ride, how wet you’ll get, minimum age, the footwear that matters — and the jungle lagoon at the end.
How many days you really need, the Best of Panama route, and the packing mistake almost everyone makes.
San Blas is the tourist name for Guna Yala, an autonomous Guna territory of small palm islands on Panama’s Caribbean coast.
A highland town in Chiriquí where the temperature sits around seventy to seventy-five degrees Fahrenheit all year — coffee country, and the base for Volcán Barú.
Nearly everything worth doing in Panama City sits within two hours of your hotel — the order we’d put it in, and what is worth a guide.
A Panama Canal eco tour is the Canal seen as the rainforest system that feeds it — wildlife, the locks, and the watershed.
What the 7:00 am boat safari on Gatún Lake looks like — Gamboa, wild howler, capuchin and tamarin monkeys, our strict no-feeding policy, and the walk in Soberanía National Park.
Why Bocas del Toro pairs naturally with Boquete on a 9-day or tailor-made itinerary — and what to book instead if you only have one day for the Caribbean coast.
Crossing coast to coast to the Agua Clara Expansion Locks, stopping for monkeys in the San Lorenzo rainforest, and walking the UNESCO cliffside fort above the Chagres River.
Leaving Panama City at 5:45 am for Soberanía National Park: eye-level canopy birding from the Discovery Tower and searching for ~380 species along Pipeline Road.
