Get to know Panama with a week interacting with sloths, learning about climate science and playing on the beach with Big Chill Adventures. Rosemary McClure describes the adventure in the Los Angeles Times. 

“The Big Chill Adventures' trip includes visiting the Kuna and Embara tribes, indigenous people living on the Isthmus, and trekking Sendero de Los Quetzales, one of Panama's most beautiful trails. It runs between Cerro Punta and Boquete, crisscrossing Rio Caldera,” writes McClure. 

Panama has a surprising amount of diversity, as the trip implies. 

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"Panama offers amazing landscapes, cultures, culinary delights and biodiversity,” climate scientist Sarah Aciego, who will lead the trip, tells the L.A. Times. 

Of course, the trip also includes a visit to the Panama Canal and traditional tropical adventures like snorkeling and a visit to a coffee plantation. 

For more on the itinerary and pricing, read on here.

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