Tours/San Blas Islands/Full Day 4 Amazing Spots in San Blas Cultural and Beach
Viator · group up to 15 pax

Full Day 4 Amazing Spots in San Blas Cultural and Beach

3.8(8)San Blas Islands1 hour
VIATOR3.2(5)TRIPADVISOR4.7(3)

Description

Experience a Day in the San Blas Islands, immersed in local culture and stunning beaches. Learn directly from Guna grandmothers in their communities as they teach you how to make traditional molas. Start creating your own mola with their guidance, visit a local community, and enjoy time with the islanders. Then, relax on one of the most breathtaking beaches in San Blas, Pelican Island, famous as the filming location of Money Heist. Here, you can use exclusive paddleboards or snorkel in the island's vibrant waters. Next, head to Ina Island, where you can unwind on its beautiful beach and watch local artisans weaving palm fibers to create unique items like coasters and bookmarks. Finally, visit the natural pool—a sandbar in the middle of the Caribbean Sea—where you might spot starfish. Enjoy fresh fruit, soft drinks, or water, and a delicious meal of fried fish with salad. Beach towels, chairs, and snorkeling gear are available upon request.

Tour Options

Full Day 4 Amazing Spots in San Blas Cultural and Beach

Itinerary

Admission not included420 min

Start at 8:30am in Tupile port, where we will take a confortable boat with sun proctection to a 4 Island Hopping in the most amazing sports in this paradaise called San blas Islands. Tiny Islands with white sand and clear turquoise color ocean. Meet our English local speaking guide who will explain the itinerary for the day. First stop is Waily Lodge, where you will take a morning snack of fruits and then you can explore in Kayak or Paddel board all the island all around. Or you can relax, we will provide towels, beach chairs and umbrellas. Around 12, you will taste a fresh fish with rice and salad make by the locals. After lunch, we will take the boat and visit the sunken boat in Island Perro chico, we will spend around 40minutes there. Then we visit the natural swimming pool, where you can find startfishes all arouns. Finally we will visit the Pelicano Island from the famous Money Heist Netflix serie.

Highlights

1 Drink (Water, Beer or Soda)
4 Island Tour (2 Islands, local community and the natural swimming pool)
Snorkel gear.
Mola, Handcrafts Atelier in the community
Lunch made by the locals (Fresh fish) with fruits
Confortable boat with sun protection
Umbrella, towels, beach chairs subject to availability.
Paddel board to share with your group.

What's included

Included
1 Drink (Water, Beer or Soda)
4 Island Tour (2 Islands, local community and the natural swimming pool)
Snorkel gear.
Mola, Handcrafts Atelier in the community
Lunch made by the locals (Fresh fish) with fruits
Confortable boat with sun protection
Umbrella, towels, beach chairs subject to availability.
Paddel board to share with your group.
Not included
Round transport from your hotel in Panama city $50USDpp. paid in cash to the driver.
San Blas Islands

Traveller Ratings

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Important Information

  • Not recommended for travelers with spinal injuries
  • Not recommended for pregnant travelers
  • Not recommended for travelers with poor cardiovascular health
  • Suitable for all physical fitness levels

Reviews(8)

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Oswald_S
April 25, 2024
I want my money back

I did not get to the tour. I was never told the location of the take off point until less than 24 hours of departure.The day before departure, communication was through a third-party and took over 6 hours to get a response. Location was two hours and 15min away and a 4x4 needed. I didn't get a responce for a pick up. Not enough information was presented at booking the trip. Waiting to send information after you can't cancel is robery.

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Operator response

Thank you for sharing your feedback, and we apologize for the inconvenience and frustration you experienced regarding the communication and information related to your tour. We strive to ensure all essential details are clear and accessible at the time of booking. Our tours that do not include ground transportation are explicitly stated in our tour descriptions, including the need for a 4x4 vehicle to reach the meeting point. This information is intended to allow our guests to prepare adequately for the journey ahead. We understand your concern regarding the timing of the communication. Our goal is to provide timely and effective communication to all our guests. We reached out the day before to offer an additional option for transportation, aiming to enhance your experience. We regret that this caused confusion and that our response times did not meet your expectations. We are continuously working on improving our communication processes, especially when coordinating with third parties, to ensure more immediate and direct responses. Given the circumstances described, we would like to investigate further to understand where our processes may have failed and to prevent a similar situation in the future. We also want to ensure you feel heard and taken care of. If there's any way we can assist you further or if you would like to discuss this matter personally, please contact us directly. We value your feedback as it helps us improve our service, and we are committed to making things right for our guests.

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Jessica_W
March 28, 2024
San blas

San blas was amazing tour guide was very helpful and Knowledgeable. The tour driver was also great until on the way back from the tour. There was a small fender Bender car accident. But every one was okay. The driving in Panama itself is a little wild. But tour driver made sure no one everyone was okay. Tour was fun!

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LightPacker564882
July 24, 2023
San Blas Island Excursion

Great day excursion! Driver and tour guides were excellent! Weather was perfect and the water was pristine! Definitely worth every penny!

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feefelicitas
January 20, 2023
Great day trip!!

We did the tour on 05.01. as a family as a private tour. The tour was super organized, I contacted the provider the night before and Salim then replied to me. The tour starts at 5am in the morning (you are awake anyway due to the European time shift) and ends at about 7pm in the evening. The driver was punctual, very sympathetic, but speaks only Spanish, a bit English. But in Panama there is rather little English spoken anyway, which is why there should be a basic Spanish understanding. We then had a private boat which took us to the first beach where three chairs were separately under a sunshade! That was great-when you take a tour with others, you sit next to each other on the beach with 20 other tourists. Afterwards we had lunch on another island, which was quite good. Have eaten better, but you don't go to the San Blas for dinner either, but because of the amazing scenery! Finally, you drive to the third island, where you walk over it and get told about the lives of the local inhabitants or see how the Guna live there. An interesting insight, the people are friendly, do not impose themselves either. Afterwards we went back to Panama City in a super 4 by 4 car - a great day! I should say that the tour was not cheap-in total we paid US$923 as a private tour in threes. But it was always worth it, as you have a private car, a private boat and also sit on the beach separately. Those who prefer to travel as a family and not with all other people should treat themselves to the luxury!

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Sandhya_P
November 6, 2022
Horrible road getting there

Beautiful water at the island and the boat ride Weather was nice Wish the food had more vegetarian selections

Operator response

I hope you understand it is not our fault how the road it is to arrive to the islands... this is out of our control. Only local authorities can fix the roads.. 1 star raiting to our tour operator because of the road, it is very unfair.

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Franklin_R
April 1, 2022
Rio and Tokyo :)

Great driver and fun experience. It is a long day but def worth taking it. Highly recommend , thanks for fun day trip!

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Maps52358025524
September 23, 2021
Addendum to previous poor review

Yes so, sometimes thing happen. We somehow missed the tour we booked but they were very accommodating and sent us a voucher for a free tour. Im very much looking forward to it. Gracias marisol

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