Posts Tagged ‘panama-canal’
Transiting the Panama Canal
2026 Blog Post 5 This voyage was supposed to traverse both Canals. But with Suez ruled out, only the Panama Canal on Tuesday 13th January 2026. The Frenchman Ferdinand de Lesseps who successfully masterminded building the sea level Suez Canal project, failed in Panama. Malaria, yellow fever, landslides and engineering miscalculations killed over 20 000…
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2026 Blog Post 4 Our ship docked at Colon, 12th January 2026, the Caribbean Atlantic Panama Canal entrance and world’s 2nd largest duty-free zone after Hong Kong. 90 minutes’ drive to the Pacific-lined skyscrapers of Panama City, a sharp contrast to the Old Panama ruins and old colonial city’s narrow, uneven, roads, brightly coloured buildings,…
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