It’s amazing how the time goes! It feels like just yesterday that everybody came aboard to explore Costa Rica’s rainforest, people, and traditions. Today, on our last full day together, we visited one of the most unique biological reserves in the world: Barro Colorado. This island in the middle of the Panama Canal is the site of some of the world’s most important tropical rainforest research; biologists from all over the world have been fascinated with the country’s biodiversity since the Panama Canal opened.
We had the opportunity to walk through the island with guides who explained their work and the various programs they run. At the same time, another group of guests opted for a different tour to explore the small town of Gamboa. We visited the Rainforest Discovery Center, where we really enjoyed the rainforest because we got rain.
In the afternoon, we offered two panga boat tours around the island in the canal. For almost two hours we had the opportunity to see iguanas, birds, and monkeys, including the area’s most unique monkey species, Geoffroy’s tamarin.
