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Join this Multi day service-learning experience, filled with eco-lodge community projects, nature exploration, and adventure programming

Panama is a country whose modern and ancient culture blend with rural and urban life. On this adventure, students will be part of a Multi-day Eco Tourism, Community service, and environmental education experience at our National Park Eco Lodge. They will be part of rich Cultural exchanges and Community activities: Tour through the forest, Language exchange, Dance and culture experiences, Birdwatching, and much more!

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    Program Highlights

    • Discover Volcan National Park
    • Embark on a Mangrove Tour
    • Take part of The Lost Waterfall Trail Hike
    • Explore Boquete Cloud Forest
    • Visit a Cacao Plantation
    • Enjoy a Music Workshop
    • Participate in a Cooking Class
    • Kayaking and Snorkeling!
    • Explore the famous Panama Canal
    • Tour Casco Viejo in Panama City
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Sample Itinerary

Panama City, Boquete and Bocas del Toro

Day 1: Travel to Panama

Welcome to Panama City! In the evening, enjoy the first dinner as a group.

Day 2: Panama City > David > Cerro Punta

Fly from Panama City to David. After our arrival, we will transfer to Cerro Punta, check into our accommodations and have lunch. After Lunch we will visit an Eco-Reserve, where we will hike to beautiful waterfalls, in the Sendero de Las minas. After our hike we will visit the Humming Bird Garden and have an opportunity to learn about the Colibri Bird.

Day 3: Cerro Punta > Baru National Park

After our morning breakfast we will pack a day bag and head out for an adventure and hiking. Our day will begin in Los Senderos Quetzales, translated to the Quetzal Trail. We will explore this trail is in the Volcan Baru National Park, which will give us a great opportunity to spot the elusive Quetzal bird. The Quetzal is the national bird of Guatemala as it plays an important role in numerous types of Meso-American mythology. Additionally, the Quetzal is a very striking bird with impressive green feathers on its back while on its front it is covered in striking red feathers. The Quetzal also has a long tail.

Day 4: Cerro Punta > Punta Robalo > Isla Bastamientos

After breakfast we will board our private 4×4 vehicles and travel to Punta Robalo. once we arrive we will take a private boat in small groups to Isla Bastimentos where we will spend the next three nights. The northwest coast of the island is home to palm-fringed beaches that serve as nesting grounds for sea turtles, while most of the northern and southern coasts consist of mangrove islands and coral reefs that lie within the boundaries of the Parque Nacional Marino Isla Bastimentos. The eco lodge where we will spend the next three days is meaningfully involved in the local community and respectful of our neighbours. They document their journey and share what they learn with guests, scientists and locals, promoting regeneration to everyone they touch.

Day 5: Isla Bastimentos

Early morning bird watching excursion. After our birding workshop e will explore Mangroves and learn about their importance in our eco systems. We will learn first hand how deforestation/development, pollution, climate change, over fishing, pollution and tourism have impacted this delicate system. In the afternoon, Snorkeling excursion around Isla Bastimentos. In the later afternoon students will have an opportunity to climb a 100ft observation tower. The wildlife and views of the forest canopy from the tower are absolutely incredible, but the natural history lesson alone is worth the ascent. From Volcan Baru’s 11,400’ peak in the cloud forest of the Talamanca Mountain range, down the slope of Western Panama to the coral reefs beneath the Caribbean’s surface, every life zone known to the tropics can be seen from this single vantage point above the forest’s canopy.

Day 6: Isla Bastimentos

In the morning, Tower Birding workshop. We will visit and explore Isla Popa which is the second largest island in the Bocas del Toro Archipelago. We will have an opportunity to learn about more birds, frogs. In the late afternoon, enjoy some Kayaking.

Day 7: Bastimentos > Bocas del Toro > Panama City

In the morning, Bird Watching and tower look out. Then, travel by boat to Bocas del Toro, where we will have some time to explore this small quaint town. In the late afternoon we will board a local flight back to Panama City.

Day 8: Panama City

Today, discover the Panama Canal: we will make our way to the Miraflores Visitor Center, which offers a number of exhibits and movies introducing and explaining the incredible engineering marvel that is the Panama Canal. Most importantly, the Visitor Center offers observation decks, where we can watch mammoth ocean liners maneuver the narrow waterways of the canal as gates open, close, and fill up along the way. We will also have time here to eat lunch at the restaurant and/or snack bar while overlooking the canal. Then, we will ambark on a tour of the old city, Casco Antiguo, also known as Casco Viejo, or the ‘old quarter,” is Panama City’s historic district. Considered a UNESCO Cultural World Heritage Site, the district dates back to 1673, and features vibrant plazas and picturesque brick-paved streets surrounded by colorful buildings.

Day 9: Homeward Bound

Begin our travel home after an amazing trip to Panama together.
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    Join this Multi day service-learning experience, filled with eco-lodge community projects, nature exploration, and adventure programming

Learning Objectives

Observe and Interact

Students will observe the interconnectedness of land and sea including its significance in Panamanian history and culture. Talented and hardworking locals eager to share their passion for life will tell their stories of hardship and joy as students begin to connect the pieces of their own lives.

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