EXPEDITION · PANAMA
15 days Pacific and Caribbean
15 days · Pacific and Caribbean
14 nights: 1 in Casco Viejo, 9 at the base, 4 in Bocas
from 2,900 EUR per person
Indicative rate for a group of 4 people, adjusted for 2 to 4. Solo traveler: private tailor-made accompaniment where nothing is shared, quoted after a direct conversation. More than 4 people: additional boats and coordination, personalized quote after a conversation.
A SAMPLE ITINERARY
Two weeks on site is another experience of the territory. The first five days, you fish. Then, you start to understand. The tides you read on paper become physical landmarks: that bank that uncovers, that point that accelerates the current, that dead hour when everything shuts down before the evening resumes. The 15 days is not a stretched 12 days. It is the only format where the zone has time to teach you something.
Nine nights at the base, and settling in changes nature. You truly unpack. Every configuration ends up happening: departures in the mist when offshore calls, a camp beach streaked with feeding frenzies at dusk, a river gone up in silence, an entire low tide spent walking an island nobody visits. The bivouac stops being a ticked option and becomes a mid-stay evidence. And if the group wants to push toward Montuosa or Jicarón, this is the format where that expedition builds best.
The table follows the terrain. The morning's fish at dinner, the season's fruits, a coconut opened with a machete on the way back from an island. And what cannot be ordered ends up arriving when you stay two weeks: a whale blowing during a drift, capybaras at the river's edge, a parrot crossing the canopy before daybreak.
On the eleventh day, you cross the country. Boat in the morning, the road, then the plane from David or the lancha from Almirante, your choice. It is not a transfer, it is a second expedition beginning: another ocean, another water, another card.
Bocas is lived barefoot. The beachfront house, the jungle growing to the tide line. Four nights leave time to learn the beach the way you learned the bay: which point works on a rising tide, where the jacks pass when the wind turns, at what hour the tarpon follows the drop-off, which groupers hold which reef. After twelve days of fishing, some ease off, others accelerate. Both hold. In the evening, the terraces of town are one lancha away from the house: you go, or you do not. A dinner closes the stay, on the last evening. A table, not a ceremony.
Fifteen days is the length that leaves room for the unexpected you came looking for: a surf session in wave season, a free dive for nothing, just to look, a morning following the wildlife rather than the fish. None of that fits into a short format without tearing a hole in it. Here, it breathes. The detail of the trip is written upstream with you, then rewritten every evening on site.
DAY BY DAY
Day 1
Panama City, Casco Viejo
Landing at Tocumen, transfer to the historic quarter. One night in the city. It will be the only one.
Day 2
To the base
Morning flight to David, the road, the dock, the sea. By early afternoon, the bags are down for nine nights.
Days 3 to 10
Coiba region, eight full days
Offshore, coast, rivers, islands, one bivouac night in the middle. Enough time for every register to come around more than once, and to wait for the right windows instead of forcing them. After a week, the water reads itself.
Day 11
The crossing
One ocean in the morning, the other by evening. Flight from David or lancha from Almirante, depending on the option chosen.
Days 12 to 14
Bocas del Toro
Three Caribbean days, feet in the sand. One tide after another, from the shore or by boat, or nothing at all.
Day 15
Return
Bocas to Panama City flight, transfer to Tocumen for the international flight.
This scope describes what we coordinate for you. Each service is paid directly to the provider on site.
INCLUDED
- Arrival night in Casco Viejo (Panama City)
- Domestic flight Panama City to David
- Driver David to the dock and back
- Boat transfer to the base
- Lodging at the base
- All meals at the base (breakfast, lunch, dinner)
- Boats and fuel at the base
- Fishing coordination by the local partner
- ELSE CODED accompaniment and coordination on site
- Domestic return flight Bocas to Panama City
- Transfer from the base to Bocas (car and flight, or car and lancha depending on the option)
- Lodging in Bocas (Bluff Beach or the archipelago depending on the group profile)
- One end-of-expedition dinner in Bocas (last evening)
- Transfer Bocas to Panama City
NOT INCLUDED
- Meals in Bocas other than the end-of-expedition dinner (every house has a full kitchen and barbecue)
- International flights
- Travel insurance
- High-end fishing gear rental (option, quoted on request)
- Montuosa or Jicarón bivouac (option, quoted on request)
- Alcoholic drinks
FISHING GEAR
Most of the anglers who come to us are experienced practitioners who arrive with their own gear, suited to their style and the species they target. Nothing to add in that case.
For those preparing their first exotic trip, we advise on the right equipment before departure. On site, high-end gear can be rented, and a stock of quality equipment can be lent depending on the outings. This is discussed case by case while preparing the trip.
SEASON
On the Pacific, the high season runs from December to May. It is the pelagic period: marlin, sailfish, wahoo, tuna, dorado. The rest of the year remains very fishable. The bay is protected and coastal fishing works year-round: roosterfish, cubera, jacks, corvina.
On the Caribbean, the best window runs from late August to mid-November. It is the period without swell, when shore casting from Bluff Beach becomes accessible. You step out of the house with a coffee in one hand and a rod in the other: the beach is one minute away. The rest of the year, fishing is done by boat in the sheltered zones of the archipelago: dolphin bay, mangroves, inner spots.
The long format takes every period. Nine nights on the Pacific side leave time to find the windows, whatever the season. On the Caribbean side, the late August to mid-November window adds shore casting from the beach, the rest of the year plays out by boat in the sheltered zones.
OPTIONS
Local bivouac, nothing more to plan
One night on an island twenty minutes to an hour by boat from the base. Campfire, night fishing, lobster hunting depending on the mood. Nothing more to plan, other than your own sleeping gear: hammock or light tent, bag. To be mentioned while preparing the trip.
Montuosa or Jicarón expedition bivouac, built ahead of time
Thirty-six to forty-five nautical miles from the mainland depending on the island, Montuosa and Jicarón count among the most remote islands of Pacific Panama. Most boats reach them from well-known coastal stations, at the cost of long hours of navigation. Our base sits as close as it gets, facing the Coiba region: twenty minutes to reach Coiba, then the heading to Jicarón and Montuosa, offshore. Leaving from this close is what makes access to this zone exclusive. It remains a true expedition: two nights minimum, heavy logistics, specific equipment, substantial fuel. Costs adjust to the group configuration, personalized quote after a conversation. To be discussed while preparing the trip.
GET IN TOUCH
Every expedition starts with a call.
Video call or phone. We listen to what you are looking for, we look together at the season, the group, the intentions. The program takes shape there.
We speak fluent French, English and Spanish. Before, during and after the trip, exchanges happen in the traveler's language.
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