We are glad you are planning dates. We can camp, but we cannot leave our camp between tours. We do need two boats besides the boat for the tour when camping, one to set up and one for breaking off the camp. We plan the tours back to back to divide the costs of the logistics. Once we have one trip with people, we may offer promotions to make the trip more efficient. 2 alone is expensive, but when right before or after another trip with more people, we may be able to lower the price. We can do with 8 too, coiba-double, it is not standard as it means two boats for clients. The camping trips have 1 night in Heliconia and 2 nights on the Coiba camp. You will be back around midday in Heliconia B&B. The trips are scheduled with good tides.
We continue to offer our Coiba Bahia Honda trips, they are more popular for May to September. This package has 1 night in Heliconia and 1 night in a fisherman’s village (with air conditioning) on an island in Bahia Honda at 30 minutes from Coiba. With this tour, if weather permits, we will be back in Heliconia between 3 and 4 pm. If weather is windy, we rise early to return earlier in the afternoon.
Both tours snorkel in 5 reefs and do 2 walks. The camping trip has an extra mangrove tour by boat. Both tours can drop you in Santa Catalina if the tide permits, do ask us in advance. The Bahia Honda tour can have an add on in Heliconia with a mangrove tour in Quebro, Mariato if staying a night extra.
The very long daytrip (9 hours) we only do as a special requests for a group of birders with trails and a minimum to no snorkeling. We provide other day trips within Mariato District (we are NOT based in Santa Catalina), including Cerro Hoya National Park, Mangroves by foot or by boat, Tidal Pool Adventures, Garden short trips or Observation courses. The turtles will be back in July. Baby turtles as of August. We hope to entertain you for more beside the Coiba trip!
| Arrival at Heliconia | Tour date(s) | Specifics | Bookings 6 max | |
| No coiba trip for the | Easter Weekend. Too busy and there is | no high tide for the mangroves | ||
| 7 April daytrip | 8 April Coiba camp 1 night only | overnight coiba camp1 night | full | |
| 8 April | 9 and 10 April Coiba Camp 2, 2 nights | overnight coiba camp | 2 places left | |
| 14 April | 15 April Coiba Bahia Honda BIRDING | overnight bahia honda | 2 places left | |
| 22 April | 23 and 24 April Coiba camp 1 | overnight coiba camp | 2 places left | |
| 24 April | 25 and 26 April Coiba camp 2 | overnight coiba camp | 4 places left | |
| We are very likely | to have our own holiday in May. | In June it rains, we plant trees | ||
| 5 July | 6 July Coiba Bahia Honda weekendtrip | overnight bahia honda | 6 places left. NEW | |
| 10 July | 11 July Coiba Bahia Honda | overnight bahia honda | 6 places left NEW | |
| 20 July | 21 and 22 July Coiba camp 1 | overnight coiba camp | FULL (fam 5p) | |
| 22 July | 23 and 24 July Coiba camp 2 | overnight coiba camp | FULL (fam 4p) | |
| 24 July | 25 and 26 July Coiba camp 3 | overnight coiba camp | FULL (fam 5p) | |
| 29 July | 30 July Whalewatching daytrip | daytrip in the bay | 6 places left | |
| 3 August | 4 and 5 August Coiba camp 1 | overnight coiba camp | 4 places left | |
| 5 August | 6 and 7 August Coiba camp 2 | overnight coiba camp | FULL (3 and 2) | |
| 7 August | 8 and 9 August Coiba camp 3 | overnight coiba camp | FULL (4 and 1) | |
| 22 August | 23 and 24 August Coiba camp 1 | overnight coiba camp | FULL | |
| 24 August | 25 and 26 August Coiba camp 2 | overnight coiba camp | 6 places left | |
| 3 September | 4, 5 and/or 6 for day trips | to whalewatch or Cerro Hoya | 2 places booked | |
| In September we do | daytrips but not coiba, in October | it rains on average 800 mm | no tours | |
| In November | Panama celebrates, we start slow | weather permitting, no camp | ||
| 15 November | 16 Nov Bahia Honda Weekend trip | overnight Bahia Honda | 6 places left | |
| 20 November | 21 November Bahia Honda | overnight Bahia Honda | 6 places left | |
| 29 November | 30 Nov Bahia Honda Weekend trip | overnight Bahia Honda | 6 places left | |
| 5 December | 6 December Bahia Honda | overnight Bahia Honda | 6 to 8 places left | |
| 13 December | 14 and 15 Dec Coiba camp 1 | overnight coiba camp | 6 places left | |
| 15 December | 16 and 17 Dec Coiba camp 2 | overnight coiba camp | 6 places left | |
| 20 December | 21 and 22 Dec Coiba camp -double | overnight coiba camp | 6 to 8 places left | |
| Tides bad at Xmas | so only Arrival 28, 29 and 30 coiba | overnight coiba camp | 6 to 8 places left | |
| 4 January 2025 | 5 and 6 January Coiba camp | overnight coiba camp | 6 to 8 places left | |
| 8 January | planning for cerro hoya camp for our | ecostories project… | reserved by us | |
| 14 January | 15 and 16 January Coiba camp | overnight coiba camp | 6 to 8 places left | |
| 20 January | 21 and 22 January Coiba camp | overnight coiba camp | 6 to 8 places left |
We partner with locals and try to avoid separating staff from their families on important holidays. This is why we don’t go to Coiba on Panama’s Mother’s Day (8 Dec); Christmas Eve and Christmas Day, New Year’s Eve and New Year. We do not schedule Carnival and Easter because they tend to be more crowded than we like.
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