June 15 Jungle Land Tour & Gamboa Rainforest Resort Scott & Sonya

This morning we checked out of the hotel and drove to the Gamboa Rainforest. We had a tour with Captain Carl on his Jungle Land tour.

 sights along the way to Gamboa

 

We arrived a bit early so we drove to the Gamboa Rainforest Resort to use the restroom and show them the area. We met the tour at the public boat dock.

 

Captain Carl took us on a Monkey Island tour where we saw White-faced Capuchin Monkeys, Howler Monkeys and Geoffrey’s Tamarins aka Mono Titi. He also gives a nice tour and information of that side of the canal. We fed peanuts to the Capuchins and later mashed banana on our fingers to the Mono Titi.

 we went under the bridge

 Capuchin

 Mono Titi

 

Then, we are off to his house boat where people also can spend the night. We were welcomed with cold drinks and were seated for lunch. He provides a very good local lunch served on banana leaves. Beef & chicken, slaw salad, rice, ripe cinnamon plantain and bread.

 Captain Carl's Houseboat

 view at lunch

 

After lunch we went up top to hold his boa if you wanted to. We have done that before and Scott went first. Then he volunteered Sonya by giving her a little push. So, she conquered another fear on this trip. After everyone who wanted to held the boa we had a choice of going fishing for Peacock Bass or kayaking to a waterfall. Last time when Dad was here we did the fishing and caught quite a few fish even though we were only out for an hour. This time, the kids chose kayaking. It was a lot of fun and the way to get to the waterfall was through a very narrow passageway that was too tight to use the paddles so we pulled ourselves through with our hands. We went ashore and anyone who wanted to could climb the waterfall and jump into the water or just swim or just hang out. Scott climbed and jumped in twice.

 

 Scott & Captain Carl with the boa

 

 Sonya & Captain Carl

 

Our time was up and we got back in the kayaks and returned by the same way we came. Back on the houseboat we had some cold drinks and all too soon it was time to leave. We were returned by boat back to the public boat dock.

Here is a link to the kayak video: https://flic.kr/p/HCV2Eh

 

We drove the short distance to the resort and checked in. We showed them around the resort and made reservations for the night safari for after dinner.

 Gamboa Rainforest Resort

 night safari vehicle

 Scott & Sonya's room

 view from the balcony

 

We got cleaned up for dinner and for the first time there was no buffet for dinner. I think there weren’t enough people staying there to justify putting out that much food. They offered us anything off of their 2 menus and the food was quite good. 

We had some cold drinks at the Monkey Bar enjoying the beautiful view.

The night safari was pretty good. We saw 2 sloths pretty close up and a grey fox. Then, it was off to bed for hiking in the morning.