Overview
Hop on a boat and sail with the Embera Indians by the Chagres River. Visit the community in the Chagres National Park, admire their homes, traditional dances and customs. Share a traditional Indian style lunch and make sure to stop and take the opportunity to buy their handicrafts.
The Chocoe Indigenous group is divided in two smaller groups: Chocoe-Wounaan and Chocoe-Embera. These two groups have exactly the same roots. They originally came from the ancient Great Colombia over 300 years ago, and settled down mainly in the Darien Jungle.
Their behavior is the same: both have the ancestral use of the blowgun with poison darts for hunting purposes, men wear loincloth, their house system is based on (Tambos) elevated-bin houses with palm-leave roofs. They decorate their bodies using a mixture of ashes and plant pigments and they both are master wood carvers and basket weavers. The only difference between these groups is their language. Although, their communication system is very similar, they do not understand each other. One of the remarkable contrasts of the modern city of Panama is still having a Chocoe-Wounaan and a Chocoe-Embera community living as their ancestors, keeping their customs very jealously, in the watershed of the Panama Canal, only 1:30 hrs away, right in Chagres National Park.
Includes
Land and water transportation
Entrance fee
Donation to the community
Indigenous style lunch
Refreshments
Guidance
What to Bring
Comfortable clothes and shoes
Hat
Sun block
Sunglasses
Camera
Umbrella or raincoat
Money for souvenirs
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Location: Panama
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Season:
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Availability: Daily
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Duration:
7 Hours
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Adult:
$84 USD
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Child:
$42 USD
Children Restriction:
It is very important to reconfirm Child´s age when selling this tour, if the child is:
2 to 11 years old, Child rate will apply. Children must show ID at the ticket office for proof of age.
12 years and older, Adult Rate will apply.
