Program Details

• Date: April 23- May 1st, 2026
• Participants: Min 8- Max 12
• Program Type: Travel Learning Photo Workshop
• Regular Price (Double Occupancy): $5,138
• Single Occupancy Add-on: $600
• Total Price (Single Occupancy): $5,738
• Save Your Spot Fee: $500
• Initial Payment Deadline: Jan 12, 2026
• Final Payment Deadline: Feb 12, 2026

(Save your spot fee is non-refundable yet fully transferable to another EMS PA program or service for a period of 364 calendar days from Dec 3rd, 2025.)

• Enjoy daily lessons on all things photography from 2-time Pulitzer Prize winner instructor Essdras M Suarez, as you learn how to see better and become a better photographer while photographing big and small things alike in this wonderful corner of the world dubbed the “Bridge of the World… Heart of the Universe”.
• Our adventure begins in Panama City with a city tour, where we’ll explore this exciting metropolis and photograph some of its most iconic historical sites such as Panama Viejo while we make a bird-photography stopover.
• Experience a meal in one of Latin America’s 50 best restaurants: Fonda Lo que Hay in the the heart of the Casco Antiguo area of Panama City.
• Special access as we visit the Miraflores Locks Visitor Center located in the Pacific side of the canal as you catch your first glimpse of this world-renowned waterway.
• Stay at the Gamboa Rainforest Resort along the shores of the Panama Canal and enjoy its many attractions while you  train your lenses on a myriad of bird species on the world-renowned Gamboa Pipeline Road as we photograph one of the Audubon Society’s favorite spots. Climb the  44-meter Discovery Center Observation Tower for a bird’s eye view of the area.
• Take a canoe ride to visit the Embera indigenous tribe living along the shores of the Panama Canal where you’ll learn about their history, their culture and their arts and crafts.
• Spend 3 days in the highlands of Panama’s cloud forest, learn and photograph about the business of coffee growing, and imbibe some unique concoctions. Visit an apiary and experience up close and personal the secret life of bees.
• Discover the colorful town of Boquete as we explore the heart of it during a photo walk.
• Prepare for an exciting visit to the area of Volcan and visit Tamandua Reserve, where you’ll get to photograph a whole new array of birds and in the most comfortable of settings. Who knows, we might just get lucky enough to see a quetzal!
• Visit and photograph one of the top-champion-producing thoroughbred farms in Latin America, Haras Cerro Punta.
• Fly back to Panama City for an exciting last look at the other entrance of the Panama Canal on the Atlantic side at the Agua Clara Visitor Center where you’ll get a different perspective on this maritime engineering marvel.
• Farewell dinner at another one of Panama’s top restaurants and experience world-class culinary delights.

• Program Details
  • Date: April 23rd- May 1st, 2026
  • Participants: Min 8- Max 12
  • Program Type: Travel Learning Photo Workshop
  • Regular Price (Double Occupancy): $5,138
  • Single Occupancy Add-on: $600
  • Total Price (Single Occupancy): $5,738
  • Save Your Spot Fee: $500
  • Initial Payment Deadline: Jan 12, 2026
  • Final Payment Deadline: Feb 12, 2026

(Save your spot fee is non-refundable yet fully transferable to another EMS PA program or service for a period of 364 calendar days from Dec 3rd, 2025.)