Category Panama and Costa Rica 2026

We are about to embark on a relatively short adventure to Panama and Cost Rica. The Itinerary is as follows:Day 1 – We will have an early flight out of Philadelphia this morning through Miami to Panama City. We will…

Today we traveled from Philadelphia, through Miami to Panama. We stayed at the airport in PHL because our flight was at 5 AM. Our flight was on time and pretty uneventful although despite them telling us to be at the…

Today we left our hotel in Panama City and traveled by bus to Colon Panama to board our ship. We had a nice breakfast at the hotel, and then had to wait until 11:00 to have our luggage loaded onto…

Today we woke up early and went to breakfast so that we could get back to our room for the entry into the canal. We have the best view possible of the canal with the largest part of our deck…

This morning we had an early excursion from Panama City back into the canal to see Gatun Lake and some of the wildlife there.Gatun Lake is a mostly freshwater reservoir to the south of Colón, Panama. It sits at 26…

Today we are at sea heading towards Isla Parida where we will go looking for more monkeys and dolphins as well as have a beach BBQ.We didn’t do much today. We visited the hot tub which our balcony overlooks. Shawn…

Today we are anchored off of Isla Parida.Isla Parida is the largest island within Panama’s Gulf of Chiriquí National Marine Park, offering a protected, tropical destination known for pristine white-sand beaches, lush jungles, and diverse wildlife. It is locatedin the…

Today we are on Puerto Jimenez Costa Rica. We anchored in the harbor and were tendered to shore in the life boats today.Puerto Jimenez is located on the Osa Peninsula on Costa Rica’ssouthern Pacific coast. The town sits on the…

Today we visited Quepos, a small port town which was mostly rural. We drove to the Manuel Antonio National Park where we took a guided tour. This wasn’t an excursion that we would recommend to others. The entrance to the…

We disembarked the ship today in Costa Rica in a port town about 2 hours from San Jose. We were loaded into a van inside of the secure port area and bussed to a parking lot outside of the port…

We got up very early this morning for our birding tour with a private guide, Jason. Conrad went to the coffee shop to pick up our to go breakfasts and we then met Jason at the entrance to the hotel.We…

We had a very early morning again this morning with Jason. We had a togo breakfast from the coffee shop and met him outside. We were driving into the mountains to meet a friend of his, Michael who had a…