So we decided that our most southern point on this road trip would be Panama City and the Panama Canal.
We checked out a bit of the city, the Panama Canal museum, and the Miraflores Locks. The history of the canal is pretty interesting. Get this...the canal was finished 6 months ahead of schedule and about $6 million under budget...my how things have changed :) We also learned that the canal is 87km long and takes a ship about 8 hours to pass from the Carribean to the Pacific.
This is a picture of a huge cargo ship entering the locks. The ship only had about 2 feet clearance on either side. The structure of the locks are pretty amazing...especially when you reflect on the fact that they were finished being built in 1914.
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Cool pictures -- I'm a fan of the shot with you guys in miners helmets and the one with kristen trying to pull down the pyramid :)
But picture 416 -- are those panthers?? It looks like you're about 4 feet away from them. And the look on their faces is priceless -- they're like "Are these tourists seriously 4 feet away from us? Really? Cause we're panthers."
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