Date(s): November 8-10, 2013. Album by David Clement. 1 - 39 of 39 Total. 44 Visits.
1 Panama City view from my room at TRYP Hotel
2 my hotel
3 roof of my hotel
4 on a walk on Via Espana
5 steak dinner across the street from my hotel
6 early the next morning - this is the boat I took into the Panama Canal
7 our Panama Canal captain boarding our boat
8 skyline of Panama City
9 Bridge of the Americas up ahead
10 Frank Gehry building
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12 under the Bridge of the Americas
13 Port of Balboa
14 entering the first of the Miraflores locks
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17 water rising
18 through the first stage, looking back at the Pacific
19 into the second stage
20 through the second stage
21 observation building and museum
22 new locks being constructed
23 Pedro Miguel lock
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26 now at the height of Gatun Lake - there are three more locks back down on the Atlantic side
27 Centennial Bridge over the Culebra cut
28 keeping the cut wide
29 continental divide
30 F&F Tower, aka Screw building
31 early the next morning with fogged up camera; this is the French Embassy in Casco Viejo
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33 Catedral Metropolitana in Plaza de la Independencia
34 street blocked leading to the Presidential Palace
35 Plaza Bolívar
36 Simon Bolívar is widely considered to be the hero of independence movement from Spain
37 Plaza Bolívar from a different angle
38 Iglesia de Santo Domingo - U.S. senators took the arch's longevity as a sign of little earthquake activity - this made Panama a safer place than Nicaragua to build the Canal
39 Plaza de la Independencia - this is where Panama declared its independence from Colombia on November 3, 1903
