15 Days / 14 Nights in Panamá, Costa Rica & Nicaragua
This is three countries in One Trip: While visiting Panama, we focus in the 1500’s and 1600’s Centuries “The Spanish Gold Rush” and its colonial Period. We visit Portobelo Harbor, a trampoline site of the Gold Rush during the Colonial period and Old Panama Site. We explore areas where Vasco Nuñes de Balboa, Enrique Luque, Francisco Pizarro, Francis Drake and Captain Morgan left their footprints. Also, we visit 20th Century Modern Panama “The Panama Canal” “On the Wonders of the World”, a masterpiece of modern engineering. We will have 2 nights and three days at the Autonomous Guna Yala Islands, administered and owned by the Aboriginals Guan people.
In Costa Rica we will embrace the Rainforest Experience and its rich Biological Diversity, visiting National Parks, participating in Ecological and Adventure activities, such as; Whitewater Rafting, Zip Lining through the Forest, Nature Hikes, Natural Thermos Hot Springs and the Cloud Forest. More than 25% of the Costa Rica territory Nature Preserved, full of Tropical Wildlife.
Our last country is Nicaragua, a visit to the Land of Ruben Dario (Poet, Journalist and Diplomat, a Literature vanguard in modern Latin American Literature) and Augusto Sandino, a Nicaraguan revolutionary and leader of a rebellion between 1927 and 1933 against the U.S. military occupation of Nicaragua and his exploits made him a hero throughout much of Latin America. During our journey from Leon to Managua, we visit the Museum of El General Augusto Sandino, located in San Rafael del Sur in the Managua province. Masaya, Granada and Leon are three colonial towns full of handcraft, architecture and history will be visited.