4 Day / Night and 7 Day / Night packages available.

7 Night Package Itinerary – 3 days offsite excursions included

Day One: Arrive Tranquilo Bay – afternoon arrival

A representative from Tranquilo Bay will meet you at the airport in Bocas Town and assist you with your entry into Bocas del Toro. Upon arrival at Tranquilo Bay you will leisurely settle into your cabana.

Day Two Snorkel & Beach trip to Zapatilla Cayes

These two unspoiled islands are protected by Bastimentos National Marine Park. These pristine white sand islands are covered in coconut palms, tropical hardwoods, sea grapes, and almond trees draped in a collage of bromeliads, ferns, orchids and other epiphytes. It is possible to walk around these islands while stopping to explore the white sand beaches and reefs covering the entire circumference. Snapper, barracuda and vivid tropical fish abound on the beautiful reefs surrounding the area.

Day Three Tranquilo Bay Trails & Canopy Observation Tower

Tranquilo Bay’s grounds include over 200 acres with several kilometers of forested trails covering different habitats. This forest and its edge are home to many of Isla Bastimentos common favorites including multiple raptors, Montezuma Oropendolas, Red-lored Parrots, hummingbirds, 5-species of kingfishers, Green Ibis, tityras, woodpeckers, honeycreepers, tanagers, pigeons, antbirds, manakins, seedeaters, and herons, and, in season Three-wattled Bellbirds. White-faced Capuchins, three and two toed sloths, green iguanas, basilisk lizards, butterflies and poison dart frogs are also common on these trails. After dinner try to spot some of the local nocturnal residents such as the Common Potoo, Owls, Western Night Monkey, Four-eyed opossum, Wooly opossum, Crab-eating raccoon, Speckled Caiman and bats.

Day Four Cacao Plantation Tour

Following breakfast, we will deploy by boat on a 15-minute passage trek across Dolphin Bay for the Green Acres Cacao Plantation. Guided by the owners and operators of the facility, we will tour their gardens as they present us with extensive information about his farm. It is here where one of the rarest strands of cacao plant in the world, the Criollo, is grown. Details of their modest but extraordinary chocolate manufacturing techniques will accompany; including growth of the trees, a step-by-step process of how chocolate is made from bean to bar and a sample of the farm’s product. Multiple varieties of tropical birds and the dendrobates auratus (black and green poison dart frog) all live onsite for your discovery. This humble group and their unique project of growing cacao to save the rainforest, while making unparalleled chocolate, are not to be missed.

Day Five Kayak & Snorkel Jellyfish Lagoon

You may decide to take today’s excursion either in the morning or in the afternoon. Our guides will take you on a kayak to a nearby jellyfish lagoon. You will search out water life above and below the surface focusing on the beautiful upside down jellyfish. Once you make your way out of the lagoon, you will snorkel at various spots in the bay near Tranquilo Bay to see a wide variety of underwater animals.

Day Six Indigenous Village Visit Jungle Hike and Snorkel

Following breakfast, we will leave the facility for a 15-minute boat ride to an indigenous village. Once we arrive at the island, we will continue up a path into the community. We will spend some time with the community and learn a bit about their lives. As we enter the trail, the dense rainforest canopy is full of exotic tropical plants. Wildlife sightings may include white-faced monkeys, two- and threetoed sloths, green iguanas, lizards, poison dart frogs, butterflies, and a plethora of exotic birds. We return to the boat and take a refreshing snorkel and swim then we head back to Tranquilo Bay.

Day Seven Explore Tranquilo Bay & its surrounds

Today, you have the choice in the morning or the afternoon between a guided hike on our two-mile nature trail watching for wildlife or a leisurely kayak and snorkeling session.

Day Eight Depart Tranquilo Bay

4 Night Package – 2 days offsite excursions included

Day One: Arrive Tranquilo Bay. Afternoon arrival.

Day Two: Snorkel & Beach trip to Zapatilla Cayes

Day Three: Tranquilo Bay Trails & Canopy Observation Tower

Day Four: Cacao Plantation Tour or Indigenous Village Jungle Hike & Snorkel

Day Five: Depart Tranquilo Bay.

*Packages available January 7 – December 15 annually Subject to availability.

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At Tranquilo Bay, eco tourism isn’t just a catchy marketing phrase used to attract guests; it’s a way of life. We want to preserve the natural resources around us in order to maintain our eco adventure lodge for the long term and to pass on our legacy to our children – our guests come to Tranquilo Bay to see the natural resources that Bocas del Toro and Panama have to offer if we do not work to preserve them our business and our children’s future has a limited life span.

We painstakingly developed our secluded get-away for five years. During that time, we lived primitively in the jungle at the future site of the lodge, as we conducted research that would help us create an eco-friendly destination that protects and preserves the environment, while offering guests unparalleled access to nature at its natural best.

We work with various international and national agencies, which are working to preserve the flora and fauna of Bocas del Toro. We are also working to identify new species of insects we find here at Tranquilo Bay with the appropriate experts.

We do what we can to educate the public at large about what Panama and Bocas del Toro have to offer through a variety of websites, articles, etc. which are updated on a regular basis.

We work with scientists as they study the wildlife here in Bocas del Toro. We sponsored a Fulbright Scholar who studied the monkeys on Bastimentos. We are working with a graduate student who is studying the red frogs of Bastimentos. We are in the process of acquiring approval to do DNA research on Tarpon along with an agency in Florida, USA.

We employ local people and in the process of taking tours these employees are learning the bird species as well as the items explained in our sustainability practice mentioned above.

Tranquilo Bay supports the Panamanian economy by employing local personnel and purchasing locally made goods. We are working to educate our employees to help them grow into positions of greater responsibility.
We volunteer as the Vigilantes de Bastimentos in order to help the Panamanian government agencies enforce the various environmental laws and we provide gasoline or transportation for these agencies to make their inspections.

We worked with the Salt Creek indigenous community to create a reserve (including a management plan) adjacent to Bastimentos National Marine Park. This reserve will protect the trees, which provide roofing to this indigenous community and keep the area from ever being developed.

We volunteer in the Bastimentos National Marine Park in various ways.Our recreational activities tread lightly on the land and the ocean. We work with several indigenous communities. These communities provide us guides on our excursions and prepare trails for tourist use to get a feel for indigenous life in Bocas del Toro.

We are members of Adesbo, a local NGO, and serve on the Environmental Subcommittee to help preserve the natural resources of Bocas del Toro.
Renee H. Kimball serves on the Board of Directors of the Chamber of Tourism of Bocas del Toro.
Renee H. Kimball was President of the Bocas Sustainable Tourism Alliance, which was a destination management organization for Bocas del Toro, for about four years from 2009 – 2012.
We are members of APTSO. We work with APTSO’s board of directors to increase the reach of APTSO.
We have supported BESO, a local organization that supports the children of Bocas del Toro, by providing excursions during low season at Tranquilo Bay, which are auctioned off for this charity.

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