Embera Village tour from Panama crossing the Chagres River in a dug-out canoe.

A very good morning everyone, this is the staff captain speaking from the bridge and a very warm welcome to Huerta Amador. And it is a very warm welcome and there is so much to do in Panama. There are a large number of excursions. The railroad all the way across the Panama Canal and back again is definitely one and you'll get to see the viewing platform. The Ambera Village is another great excursion or you could go and see the monkeys. But if you fancy taking your own excursion just outside you'll find taxis and buses that can take you anywhere. You can also just walk into the local commercial centre. You'll have this great view of Panama City in that wonderfully clean sky. There are statues everywhere because they love their art. And if you look up in the trees you'll probably see the odd sloth. So join us on Doris Visits as we first up show you the Ambera Village. Your total bus journey is about an hour. This is the building at the entrance of the National Park, the beginning of the rainforest. Once there you have about 15 minutes further on the coach to get in, 15 minutes max on the canoes to get to your village. That's a half an hour voyage in through the rainforest and a half an hour voyage out of the rainforest. So when I wrote about this it's kind of dreaming. I've done a bit of research but it comes to life when you see it for real. These are the canoes and it is going to take 10 or 12 minutes. Look at this ingenious ladder. Even children can use it. They don't have sinks in the toilets, there's bowls on the table. There is nothing better than playing out a drama in front of some incredible scene which is perfectly natural. So here where the guys are dancing in the background, Commander Phillips has just worked out who is following him and he's decided to kind of get hold of them. Well everybody's dancing. The girl he's taken to the village is dancing and he's being encouraged to go in the dance floor. He can't, his prisoner would get away. This is the Ambera village that we've just been in and this looks like the school. The cruise port of Lima in Peru. The bus drops you at the Indian market. Welcome to Miraflores. Oh look, a cat on a hot tin roof. So if you want to get to the cat park or in fact go downtown, with the Indian market behind you, the shuttle bus in front of you, turn left swiftly and walk away. We do tours that start and finish at Parque Kennedy where we are right now. Just opposite the cat park you can get the tickets for the hop-on hop-off bus. There is a right next door. The best thing about using the local buses is they use the bus lane and you don't have to queue in order to travel. First day of a new government, there are riot police here, there are TV cameras set up, no one knows if there's going to be a changing of the guard today or not. Right next to the Archbishop's Palace is a lovely chocolate world, my favourite kind of Thank you. That is the real flavour of chocolate, bitter, a little sour at the end because most of our cacao is sour more than bitter. Yeah if you like dark chocolate that's the one isn't it? Yes. This is the famous Copacabana beach. A new tram is an easy way to get around, it's just across the road from the port and good news, senior citizens travel free. We're on the escalator for the final leg. So we're 700 metres above sea level and that is another 30 metres high. So this is where they hold the carnival in February. When the samba schools come and audition, they have to audition here. I've got a caprinha and it's a lemon flavour which was the original. Cheers. We're 395 metres high. The Sugarloaf Complex is the country's biggest and most traditional climbing centre. The cathedral is ugly on the outside but inside there's beautiful stained glass windows and it has standing room for 20,000 people. This work of art began in 1990 as a personal tribute to the people of Brazil, a constantly changing work of art. We're in the Museum of the Imagination which is right by the ship, free entry if you're over 65. There's not a lot of English translation here but the pictures are pretty self-explanatory.