The Natural and Cultural Heritage of Gunayala
In close collaboration with Gunas authorities and under organized community managed sustainable tourism development frameworks, we’ll use our stable sea kayaks to explore the islands West of the traditional community of Digir. It was here where several important actions of the Gunas Revolution took place in 1925, resulting in law 16 of 1954 by the Republic of Panama that guarantees the Guna their sovereignty and territorial boundaries.
A detailed study in 2003 by the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute and the Guna NGO, PEMASKY; showed that Gunayala has the highest diversity of coral species as well as the best reef development in all of Panama. We will become intimately familiar with them as our Guna guides paddle with us between several different small white sand islands, where the greatest snorkeling is right outside your tent.
The cultural interaction on this journey is unprecedented. The itinerary will remain flexible, to take into account weather conditions, currents and tides, and we expect an occasional non-paddling day to provide ample opportunity for exploratory hikes - bring good walking shoes for pristine forest creek bed trekking!
