1st day:                                                                      

Arrival, Cerro Azul Mountains

You will be welcome by us at Tocumen International Airport, by Panama City,  and transferred to a mountain lodge at the northeast of Panama City in the Cerro Azul Mountain and rest up.

Lodging El Hostal** –  dinner

2^th day:

The Chagres Challenge

An early start at 5 am when you will picked and taken in an all-terrain vehicle to the remote village of San Cristobal, which is past the mountains of Cerro Azul, northeast of Panama City.

After enjoying a typical Panamanian breakfast, you will hike for about 2 hours on a trail within Chagres National Park up to Rio Piedras, a Chagres River tributary, where you will get into rafts to float downstream (Class II-III rapids) into the untouched jungles of the Chagres River.

Then, you will continue rafting further downstream passing an impressive granite canyon with some white water rapid action, and ending just before encountering Madden Lake.

There you are expected by a “piragua” (native wooden canoe equipped with outboard motor) that will take you downstream along their Embera Indian Village at the riverbanks. If time allows it we will stop shortly in their village.

These natives migrated to Chagres River banks more than 20 years ago, where they found the same habitat they were so familiar with in the Darien Jungles.

Our “piragua” will take us to the nearest road where a river will be expecting to bring you back to civilization, and to your hotel in Panama City

Lodging Hotel Granada*** – breakfast, lunch  

3^rd day:

Departure

After your breakfast you will be transferred to Tocumen International Airport (depending on departure time)

If time allows it you can search for great buying deals at Los Pueblos Mall or visit ethnic cultural exhibition at Los Pueblitos, or visit Panama Canal Miraflores Locks (not included).

breakfast