7 Hours Nature Exploration of Monkey Island and Soberania National Park

Embark on a 7-hour nature exploration of Monkey Island and Soberania National Park. Spot wildlife, monkeys, birds, sloths, and crocodiles while navigating the Panama Canal and exploring the rainforest.

Duration: 7 hours
Cancellation: 24 hours
Highlights
  • Panama Canal - We start the day with and early pick up at your hotel by our naturalist tour guide, we will drive to the area of gamboa to aboard and expedition boat to navigate on the waters of the Panama canal, after pass the dredging division of the canal we will reach the gatun lake to visit different islands with monkeys and wildlife.
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What's Included
  • Boat included
  • Captain provided
  • English-speaking tour guide
  • Land transportation included
What's Not Included
  • Lunch
  • Gratuites
Additional Information

Start this fascinating journey with a pick up by your English speaking naturalist tour guide, we will drive for 45 minutes to the town of Gamboa once there we are going aboard our expedition boat to navigate into the waters of the Panama Canal.
On the waters of the canal you will see a giant ships  just next to our boat, reach the gatun lake to explore…

Location
Gamboa
Public marina of gamboa
Cancellation Policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

Customer Ratings
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Jill_r
Jan 10, 2025
Brilliant excursion! - Brilliant trip! Juan was an excellent guide and so knowledgeable about all the wildlife and birds in the park and lake
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Kay_s
Oct 23, 2024
Wild-life! - Our guide Juan was very knowledgeable and gave us an excellent tour. He was great at finding monkeys, sloths, and birds in the rain forest. Highly recommend this tour.
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Tomhc7906kl
Sep 28, 2024
Highly Recommend - Wow, we had a great time! And, there were only 2 of us on the tour! Juan, our guide, was very knowledgeable about the ecology and wildlife of the park as well as the history of the canal and U.S. involvement in Panama's politics. On top of that, he has lived an amazing (still young) life. If you go with his company, be sure to ask him about how he got to where he is today on the way back to your hotel. We saw, and fed from our hands, wild capuchin monkeys, saw a tamarin monkey and a howler (unfortunately he didn't howl.) The capuchins will come onto the boat and sit in your lap if you feed them grapes (provided by Juan!) While we were feeding the capuchins, one of the monkeys accidently knocked Juan's cell phone out of his hand and into the lake. Phone lost but Juan did not miss a beat during the tour. Be sure to use bug repellent for the hike part of the tour. Pickup and drop-off at your hotel. Thoroughly recommend his company.
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Dannybmmusique
Jun 30, 2024
Tourist in Panama - Amazing guy to be your tour guy adorable super friendly and always positive and def very aware all your needs in Panama Highly recommend him !!
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Christina_m
Jun 22, 2024
Lake Gatun, canal, and nature tour - Juan, our guide, was excellent. He answered all our questions enthusiastically. He went above and beyond, picking us up in an unexpected downpour. We saw 3 varieties of monkeys on the boat ride on Lake Gatun. The first hand view of the canal was great! We enjoyed our lunch at Gamboa Forest Preserve. Our walk through the butterfly garden was very beautiful and informative.
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Kimberley_b
Jun 9, 2024
Great monkey tour and nature walk - Juan was amazing. Knowledgeable, punctual and answered all 1000 of my brother's questions on every Panamanian topic known to man
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Adam_g
Jun 5, 2024
A great experience - Our monkey island trip was great. Juan, our guide, did an excellent job. He was an expert on all the biodiversity around the Panama Canal. We ended up using him for multiple other excursions and had a great time on each one. We saw three different types of monkey on our trip as well as an anteater, bats, and many different types of birds. We cruised on the Canal for a bit afterwards and saw some massive cargo ships. One in our group had just broken a leg so Juan adjusted our trip to accommodate. We ended up going to Panama City for a bit and explored the old town before returning to Gamboa and doing a short nature hike where we saw many different birds as well as agouti. We would definitely recommend Juan and would use him as our guide again on future trips to Panama.
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Michaelkz3368jh
Mar 11, 2024
Great day trip from Panama City - Hector was an amazing guide and very knowledgeable about the different species of flora and fauna. He took us to places that weren’t a part of the tour based on our interests which was amazing! My only issue was that nearly all the animals we were supposed to see weren’t out that day so we didn’t spot many monkeys on monkey island.
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Miriam_w
Dec 24, 2024
Lake Gatun is amazing - The boat ride on the canal and the visit to Monkey Island was fantastic. Lunch at the fish market was delicious. The nature hike was just ok.
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Daschwab5
Jan 13, 2025
Excellent Monkey Islands tour, but skip birdwatching - The Monkey Island portion of the day (2 hours) was a 5. We were able to closely observe both capuchin and tamarind monkeys. However, birdwatching at Soberania National Park was very disappointing. Our guide, Juan, did not even have a scope or binoculars which is imperative for finding birds.
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