Wildlife Boat Tour: Monkeys, Sloths, and Tropical Birds

Embark on a thrilling 4-hour Lake Gatun Wildlife Tour from Panama City and encounter various monkey species including white-faced, howlers, and geoffrey’s tamarins up close.

Duration: 4 hours
Cancellation: 24 hours
Highlights
  • Lake Gatun - The tour begins with a hotel pick-up in Panama City, followed by a transfer to the Gamboa Marina. From there, you’ll embark on a 15-minute boat ride on Gatun Lake, where you’ll have the opportunity to observe three types of monkeys in their natural habitat.
    Accompanied by a guide, you’ll spend approximately 80 minutes watching the…
What's Included
  • Professional local guide
  • Hotel pickup and drop-off
  • Boat ride included
  • Transport by air-conditioned car or minivan
What's Not Included
  • Meals
Additional Information

This 4-hour tour is the easiest way for you to have close-up contact with monkeys such as white-face, howlers, and Geoffrey’s tamarins. Plus, you’ll see two-toed sloths, three-toed sloths, capybaras, anteaters, caimans, crocodiles, turtles, manatees, bats, and many tropical birds like the Rainbow-billed Toucan, Keel-billed Toucan, Fiery-billed Aracari,…

Location
Lake Gatun
Cancellation Policy

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

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J9069qfleep
Jan 13, 2025
Flora, fauna, and ambiance aplenty. - Will not disappoint. You will see a variety of interesting animals and plants, and the guides are well informed. Both educational and beautiful.
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Marisol_p
Jan 13, 2025
My 5th time - It was my 5th time. Every family member and friend viviting me, I always take them there. The tour is awsome. You always get to see several species. The tour guides and monkey whisperer are the best!. I highly recommend.
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Kaitlin927
Jan 12, 2025
Lotsa monkeys! - Really great experience! Saw lots of monkeys up close. Birds and iguanas and bats in the distance. Tour guide was awesome. Loved the hotel pick up and drop off.
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Therchline
Jan 11, 2025
Fun, enjoyable and informative tour - So enjoyable! It was a neat experience being on the Panamá Canal but the highlight was definitely seeing so many monkeys. Daniel was our guide and was fabulous! Juliet was our “monkey whisperer” and had the monkeys coming right to her on the boat. Also saw several large iguana, multiple different birds and learned about things you can eat in the jungle.
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765marylynnh
Jan 11, 2025
Amazing boat ride through Panama Canal with lots of wildlife to see! - Our group enjoyed the boat ride through the Panama Canal to the small islands where we saw several species of monkeys, iguanas, bats, and birds. Our tour director, Daniel did a fabulous job of describing the various sites that we were seeing. Juliette was our monkey whisperer who was able to help bring the monkeys into sight. Our bus driver Bryan got us safely to and from our hotel to the dock. Captain Jack sparrow navigated our boat so we could see the sites. It was a fantastic afternoon seeing nature and all of the staff involved were fantastic!
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Jef
Jan 11, 2025
A wonderful afternoon enjoying the monkeys! - Our English-speaking guide Daniel was excellent: helpful and extremely knowledgeable about the city, Canal operations and area, and the wildlife we were there to see. A “monkey whisperer,” Juliette, joined us for the boat trip to the islands and it was amazing and entertaining how she was able to call the monkeys out of the trees to the boat where we were able to see them inches away at times! Both the van driver maneuvering through heavy traffic and the boat driver guiding us on the lake and around the islands made us all feel safe with their skilled vehicle handling. Our little party of three, and I believe all the others in our group, were very happy overall with this experience. I would highly recommend this tour to others!
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Dimples1108
Jan 10, 2025
Had a great time! - Had a great time and learned a lot! Mario was very knowledgeable and a great guy. We learned about different monkey species, plants, and other things.
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Niteowl58
Jan 9, 2025
A Great Time With the Monkeys - We really enjoyed this little outing. Daniel is a very knowledgeable guide and shared a lot of information. His English is quite good and he’s very personable. Pickup at our hotel was prompt and easy. The boat ride brought us to several monkey islands and a few monkeys came right up in the boat which was a lot of fun. Juliet, the other guide/driver was great in calling to the monkeys. Panama has recently outlawed feeding the monkeys so no one needs to be concerned the animals or the ecosystem is being mistreated. Highly recommend this company for your monkey experience in Panama
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O9621plericr
Jan 7, 2025
very awesome experience with monkeys - went with my dad, everyone was very friendly and learned a lot of information about the area, we saw all kinds of flora and fauna, very grateful for the experience
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Beyonka_b
Jan 9, 2025
I never got picked up... - I never got picked up from my hotel at 6:40am. The operator didn't notice that I had a booked tour through viator. They refunded me after I told them that they received payment and I didn't understand how they didn't notice the viator tour. They stated I cancelled the trip advisor tour which was correct but I had scheduled on both sites so I cancelled trip advisor and kept viator tour. It's odd how they did not see any of my messages on both sites. I messaged before the tour multiple times and no response. I had to call. They offered a free tour but I was not available and not willing to wake up that early again.
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