The National park of Sovereignty in Panama

Although it can look like a fantasy to find a luxurious resort in the middle of a tropical forest, this is possible in Panama. Gamboa Rainforest Resort is inside the National park of the Sovereignty, on the banks of the river Chagres and the Canal of Panama.

Although some of them can think that it is far from the civilization, only one finds approximately thirty minutes of the night life of Panama, and at an hour of the airport. And the fact is that the National park of the Sovereignty is possibly the most accessible tropical forest of the world.

The tourists you can relax with the magnificent conference that are had from the complex, swimming in the swimming pool, or contemplating the birds of the national park. There is also a series of exhibitions that bring us over to the world of the butterflies, the snakes and the orchids.

To obtain a few wonderful conference of bird of this tropical forest, there is a teleférico that it salts from the summit of Bare Hill, and it will offer us a spectacular panorama. This forest includes an impressive flora, in addition to hundreds of birds and species of mammals, like the jaguar and the deer of white tail, as well as the raccoons and the wild pigs.

Other activities that can be done in the National park of the Sovereignty are a trip in kayak up to the Lake Gatún and the Island of the Monkeys. A ship will take us from the Canal of Panama up to the place of exit of the kayak. Also you can stop to go fishing in the lake.

You can live also through the fascinating experience of meeting a native tribe, visiting the Embera village. Although the holding a permit visits can be faces, good they are worth while. We will take a boat up to the river Changres, and from there the Embera inhabitants come to gather us, to take us up to his people. If the river is in a slightly deep period, even it is possible to cover on foot.
During the way a small stop is done, in a footpath that he leads to a beautiful cascade. You will remain impressed of how they raise up to the top of the cascade the native ones of Embera. From there a warm welcome waits for us in Embera. They will invite you to a lunch of fresh fish, and will offer us a spectacle of traditional dance. We will have the possibility of buying articles about basketry that the proper Embera inhabitants prepare, and even of happening the night in the people.

Like véis, to visit the National park of the Sovereignty in Panama can turn out to be an experience that marks our lives. Do you imagine to penetrate for the forest and to happen one night with a tribe? …

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