Cruise Shore Excursion Panama: Wildlife Gatun Lake and Canal Locks

This tour is exclusive for cruise passengers. Unforgettable trip through the Gatun lake, to ride the Canal to see big boats navegating the lake after pass the Canal locks plus enjoy nature, see wildlife and find 3 kinds of monkeys.

Duration: 3 hours, 30 minutes
Cancellation: 24 hours
Highlights
  • Gamboa - Transfer from the cruise dock to Gamboa public marina
  • Gatun Lake - We are going to sail Gatun Lake and explore its different islands to see three species of monkeys. Howlers, tamarins and capuchins in their habitat,
  • Amador Causeway (Calzada de Amador) - Transfer from Gamboa marina to the cruise dock.
What's Included
  • In-vehicle air conditioning
  • Boat ride
What's Not Included
  • Gratuities
  • Lunch
Location
Gelarti Helados Gourmet
Gelarti helados, Perico Island, Coastway Amador
Cancellation Policy

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

Customer Ratings
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526heikee
Jan 14, 2025
Incredibly beautiful and eventful!!! - It was incredibly beautiful! One of my best trips ever!! Daniel, the tour guide was Mega, as was the “Fast and the Furious” rider, Juliette, the Monkey Whisperer and the Captain. All in all perfect and highly recommended!!!!! 👍🏼👍🏼👌🏼
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Sarahls1390fu
Jan 10, 2025
Wonderful monkey island tour! - The tour guides are very nice and share lots of information with you. They also provided some gifts at the end. We were able to see all the monkeys and 2 species came in the boat with us so including a 3 month old baby. We were able to get great pictures and videos. We also saw some iguanas and a Capybara as well as several birds. Highly recommend this tour company!
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Mitchw402
Nov 11, 2024
Special experience, well organised, great guides. - Excellent tour! It was so well organised. The guide knew so many facts and presented it all in a fun and interesting way. There was time for questions and he was open to chat about any part, but didn't waste time either. Couldn't fault it at all. Best tour of our trip so far.
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Carmeno1548
Jun 17, 2024
Grest tour!! :) - The tour was amazing. Daniel, our guide, was great. He knew a lot of interessting facts about Panama City and nature. We saw a lot of monkeys. That was great. The tour is a bit expensive, but it was worth it. :)
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Lakingit
Mar 30, 2024
Best tour ever! - Oscar was so accommodating to us. He was very passionate about his job and went the extra mile to give us the best tour ever!
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Jeffreypmc
Feb 4, 2024
Great Excursion! Great Guide! - We booked this thru TripAdvisor instead of the ship since the ship's excursions were already full. We are so glad we did; we paid about the same or less and were the only four in our group. We saw others out on water and their boats were full. Out boat had about seats for about 15, but only us four passengers, the guide and the driver. The guide was knowledgeable and friendly. We could not have asked for anything else. We had about a 45-minute bus ride to the boat dock, then 2.5+ hours on the water in the Panama Canal and Gatun Lake looking for Monkeys on the islands. We were able to spot 2 of the 3 species that live there, the White-Faced Monkey was hiding that day.
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45612
Dec 27, 2023
Worth it! - A must! Highly recommend going! Beautiful mellow trip on the lake and lots of interaction with monkeys
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924esterg
Dec 6, 2023
Fun, an unmatched and unique experience - I loved the tour, the treatment of the guides Mr. Daniel and Mrs. Julieth, excellent people, a very pleasant and unique experience to see the animals and live with the monkeys, give them food and hear the different sounds that the monkeys made, it was definitely impressive
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Rachel_g
Mar 11, 2024
So many monkeys! - I absolutely adored this trip, we saw all 3 breeds of monkey and both the Titi Monkeys and White Faced Monkeys came onto the boat. Feeding a handful of peanuts and out of the palm of my hand and then having the monkey walk over it, is a memory that will live with me. Although once the excursion was underway it was brilliant, the lead up was very concerning. Given this is marketed as a cruise shore excursion, I was rather surprised that the meeting point was a random ice-cream shop, a 16 min walk or $10 cab ride from the Pacific Cruise Terminal where we were docked. Even more surprising was the email I had just over a day before hand, asking which hotel I wanted to be picked up from, and asking if I wanted a 6.30am or 1pm pick up, despite having booked one for 9am on a cruise ship excursion. I didn't receive confirmation of the pick up point, and a time change to 1pm until 8.30am just before I was about to leave assuming it was still booked for 9am as per my ticket. I was also rather surprised about having to then spend an hour going around various other hotels to pick up many other guests. The listing on Viator states there will be a maximum of 15 travellers.. I'd say there was definitely more on this excursion - so I'd suggest a lot of the description of this may not be accurate. However once it is underway and the stress of trying to make sure you don't miss it while there is a lack of communication, it really was an excellent trip and one of my favourite excursions of my whole cruise,
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Stephen_p
Feb 14, 2025
Poor transport and communication, great tour on the boat - Be sure that they are very clear with your pick up spot. We were where they told us to be at 9 am. After several texts back and forth we were finally picked up in a small SUV with a driver that couldn't speak any English. We were supposed to be in a air conditioned bus with a guide. Same on the way back. My husband and I ended up in the third row of the small SUV with zero leg space. An hour each way. The boat ride was very good and Daniel was a great guide for it.
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up to 15 guests
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Cancellation: Free cancellation up to 24 hours before the start of your experience (local time).