点评:If you are in reasonable shape and you're willing to pay the (imo) sorta expensive fee ($125 per person) then the Barro Colorado official tour may be for you. Unless you're a scientist with special permission you can't just hike around, but rather you'll have to have an official Smithsonian guide. You must arrive early, before 7AM, in Gamboa where the STRI boat docks. There will be a line forming of BCI staff, about 30 people by the time the boat leaves. You will meet your guide on the boat. You hope that your guide will follow the unconventional protocol of a very brief orientation followed by starting the hike. The official tour would start you with a movie that no one in our group needed or wanted and which robs you of over an hour on the trail. Our guide (Irisol - she is excellent) got us started before 8:30 which gives you a much longer tour and which allows the early part of the tour to be in cooler air. She then did the presentation and movie after lunch (which is included, provided by the BCI cafeteria) which is a second benefit - you aren't sitting around for hours waiting for the boat to return to Gamboa. The hike is exertional and quite sweaty. There are multiple ascents but anyone that does occasional hiking and is in reasonable condition can do it. We saw a few birds, including parrots, several turkeys, woodpeckers, and a lot of trees whose names we were given. We saw no sloths, marmosets, coatis, capuchins, or even agoutis, but the howlers hung around above us for about 25 minutes and were a delight. We also saw scientists in the bush collecting insect specimens. Our hike was in January and we did follow the recommendations that they made for clothing, footwear and repellant but in the end there were very few bugs.
翻译:如果您身体状况良好并且愿意支付(我认为)昂贵的费用(每人 125 美元),那么巴罗科罗拉多官方旅游可能适合您。除非您是获得特别许可的科学家,否则您不能只是徒步旅行,而是必须有史密森尼官方指南。您必须在早上 7 点之前提前到达 STRI 船停靠的甘博阿。当船离开时,BCI 工作人员将排成一队,大约有 30 人。您将在船上与您的导游会面。您希望您的导游遵循非传统的协议,进行非常简短的介绍,然后开始徒步旅行。正式的旅行将以一部我们团队中没有人需要或不想要的电影开始,这会占用你一个多小时的时间。我们的导游(Irisol - 她非常出色)让我们在 8:30 之前出发,这样您的旅行时间会更长,并且可以让旅行的早期部分处于凉爽的空气中。然后,她在午餐后进行了演示和电影(午餐由 BCI 自助餐厅提供),这是第二个好处 - 您不必坐上几个小时等待船返回甘博阿。徒步旅行很费力,而且很出汗。有多种攀登路线,但任何偶尔徒步旅行且身体状况良好的人都可以攀登。我们看到了一些鸟,包括鹦鹉、几只火鸡、啄木鸟,还有很多我们知道名字的树。我们没有看到树懒、狨猴、长鼻浣熊、卷尾猴,甚至刺豚鼠,但吼叫者在我们头顶上盘旋了大约 25 分钟,令人高兴。我们还看到科学家在灌木丛中采集昆虫标本。我们的徒步旅行是在一月份,我们确实遵循了他们对衣服、鞋子和驱虫剂提出的建议,但最终几乎没有出现任何错误。