Panama License Plate, 2008 |
The approach to the Panama Canal from the Pacific side |
Puente de las Américas (1962) over the southern (Pacific) entrance to the Panama Canal |
Container ship approaching the Panama Canal |
The Amador Peninsula provides a view of the approach to the Panama Canal |
Container ship heading for the Panama Canal |
Breast cancer ribbons in front of the Goethals Monument, Panama |
Panama Canal Administrative Building |
Via Centenario, a highway linking Panama City with Arraján |
Esclusas de Miraflores, the first set of locks on the Panama Canal |
Puente Centenario/Centennial Bridge over the Panama Canal |
Pedro Miguel Locks, the second set of locks on the Panama Canal |
Container ship in the Pedro Miguel Locks, Panama Canal |
The Pedro Miguel Locks don't have a nice official viewing point |
Propiedad de la Autoridad del Canal de Panama - Prohibido Entrar Sin Autorizacion |
Miraflores Visitor's Center, Panama Canal |
Steam locomotive at the Miraflores Visitor's Center |
Miraflores Visitor's Center - 9 am to 5 pm, $8 |
The Miraflores Locks, one of three sets of locks on the Panama Canal |
The Equuleus Leader (199m, 61804 tons) of the NYK Line transiting the Panama Canal |
The second set of locks, Pedro Miguel, visible in the distance along with the Centenario Bridge |
Miraflores Locks raise or lower ships 24m in 3 stages |
The twin lanes of the Miraflores locks are being augmented by a third channel under construction just west of here |
The Panama Canal was opened in 1914 by the USA after the French failure in the 1880s |
Panoramic view of the Panama Canal at the Miraflores locks |
Ships transiting the Panama Canal from the Pacific side |
Plaque dedicated to the builder of the Gaillard Cut, 1907-1913 |
Miraflores Locks on the Panama Canal, completed in 1913 |
Panama Canal Museum - Miraflores |
Surveying the route through the Panamanian jungle |
United States resumed construction of the Panama Canal in 1904 after the newly independent Panama signed a treaty with the US |
The challenge of the Culebra Cut, 1907-1913 |
Model of the hydraulic suction dredge Culebra, built in 1907 for the Panama Canal project |
Giant Cerambycid Beetle (Callipogun armillatus) |
Canal locomotive used to pull ships through the locks |
Model of the Panama Canal - Caribbean side and Gatun Lake |
Model of the Panama Canal - central portion |
Model of the Panama Canal - Pacific side |
The mouth of the Panama Canal at Panama City with the first two sets of locks |
Panama Canal Museum - simulation of a container ship transiting the Miraflores locks |
Lisa J transiting the Miraflores Locks of the Panama Canal |
Miraflores Locks of the Panama Canal |
The Bulk Carrier Lisa J, registered in Majuro (Marshall Islands) |
The tug boat Alianza tied up alongside at the Miraflores Locks |
The Lisa J continues its voyage through the canal |
The next ship to arrive at the Miraflores Locks - the crude oil tanker British Security |
Miraflores Locks, Panama Canal |
The tanker British Security in the first stage of the Miraflores Locks |
One of the tug locomotives assisting the British Security through the Panama Canal |
Massive gates between the stages of the locks at Miraflores |
The Passing the Equuleus Leader as it sails towards the Pedro Miguel Locks |
Centennial Bridge, Panama |
Driving across the Puente Centenario (Centennial Bridge) |
The Gaillard Cut beneath the Centenario Bridge |
The Gaillard Cut of the Panama Canal |
Puente Centenario - Centennial Bridge - opened in 2004 |
Walking a section of the Centennial Bridge over the Panama Canal |
Panama Canal from the footway across the Centennial Bridge |
Gaillard Cut of the Panama Canal from the Centennial Bridge |
Centennial Bridge, Panama Canal |