The Chagres Challenge - a full day jungle expedition from sunrise to sunset

Itinerary
This is a typical itinerary for this product

Stop At: Chagres National Park, Carretera Madden, Colon Panama

Start at 5am after your picked and taken in an all-terrain vehicle from your hotel to the remote village of San Cristobal.

After enjoying a typical Panamanian breakfast, visit a campesino survival agricultural farm in the Chagres National Park.

Next, hike for about 2-hours up to Rio Piedras. This area is a Chagres River tributary, where you will get into your rafts and begin to float downstream, (Class II-III rapids) floating into the untouched jungles of the Chagres National Park. Keep an eye out for wildlife such as monkeys, sloth, river otter, iguana, toucan and fish.

From late February through early June you might have to hike all the way to the Chagres River (which takes 3-hours) because Piedras River might be to low to raft on.

After lunch, continue rafting further downstream passing an impressive granite canyon with some white water rapid action, and ending just before encountering Madden Lake where you met by a "piragua" (native wooden canoe equipped with outboard motor). Ride in the piragua further downstream to the nearest road where a driver will be expecting you and ready to bring you back to civilization, and to your hotel in Panama City around 7pm.

Duration: 12 hours

Pass By: Embera Drua Villiage, Panama

we will paddle by it at the end of the day

Pass By: Emberá Purú Village, Panama

We will navigate along it at the end of the day

Pass By: Comunidad embera Tusipono, Colón, Panama

We will navigate along it at the end of the day

Pass By: Centro De Salud Cerro Azul, Panama City, Panama

we will drive next to it at dawn