Bird  Panama

Feb 12 - 21, 2022
Bird the Canopy Tower and Bocas del Toro
Full
  • Pace:   Early mornings, long days but no great distances traveling
  • Days: 10 days /  9 nights   
  • Scheduled dates:  2022  Feb 12 - 21 - Full
  • Price:  2022:  from $4195 per person in double occupancy with 12 participants. 
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​We are excited to offer this opportunity to travel and bird Panamá and stay at two of the country’s finest eco-lodges.  A quick flight from the US and an hour later you are in the big middle of the rainforest, with its abundant birds and wildlife, birding at the Canopy Tower.  Then another quick flight to the archipelago of Bocas del Toro and Tranquilo Bay.
     At the Canopy Tower, overlooking Soberanía National Park as well as the Panamá Canal, one has eye-level-with-the-canopy views of stunning rainforest birds, as well as monkeys and sloth. Perhaps the most well-known birding spot in Panamá is Pipeline Road, just a short distance away. Pipeline has a strange history with an excellent conclusion: today, birds and wildlife abound here. A never-used petroleum pipeline and service road, it stretches for about 25 miles and many consider it to be the hottest birding spot in Central America.
     Then on to Bocas del Toro on the Caribbean Coast of Panamá. Tranquilo Bay is located on 200 pristine acres, adjacent to Bastimentos National Marine Park, among the convergence of three distinct ecosystems, creating an extremely diverse and unique wildlife observation opportunity. It is possible to identify over 100 species of birds without leaving the property, but you will – including an old banana boat canal and “Bird Island” the only known nesting site in the southwest Caribbean for Red-billed Tropicbird. Additionally, you have the chance to see white-faced capuchin monkeys, night monkeys, two and three toed sloths, iguanas, caiman, butterflies, a variety of frogs and lizards, and within the canopy a collage of rain forest hardwood and fruit trees, lianas, mangroves, ferns, orchids and cycads.

  • Accommodations:  Two wonderful eco-lodges, comfortable rooms, private hot water baths
  • Included:   9 nights lodging, all meals, all local transportation, entry fees, basic gratuities, local bi-lingual guides, escorted by JB Journeys' Eric Stager.
  • Not included:  International airfare, drinks, personal expenses, guides' gratuities, travel insurance
  • Bring:   Binoculars of course!  More upon registration.