by The Inside Cabin | Jan 24, 2024 | Panama, Panama Canal, Central America, 2024 World Cruise
This is post 25 of 49 in the series “2024 World Cruise” Daily posts about our adventures on the 2024 Holland America Line Grand World Voyage Visas and Luggage (Post #2) 2024 Grand World Voyage (Post #1 ) Grand World Voyage Activities (Post #3) Grand World...
by The Inside Cabin | Jan 8, 2023 | 2023 World Cruise, Panama, Panama Canal, Central America, Fuerte Amador
This is post 7 of 81 in the series “2023 World Cruise” 2023 World Cruise – The Adventure Begins (Post #1) The Adventure Begins! – Fort Lauderdale (Post #3) At Sea – en route to Falmouth, Jamaica (Post #4) Falmouth, Jamaica (Post #5) The...
by The Inside Cabin | Jan 10, 2018 | Panama, Panama Canal, Central America, South America, Fuerte Amador, 2018 Grand World Voyage
The New Locks As we have transited the canal on previous cruises we always heard a lot of talk about the new canal locks. The completion date regularly seemed to slip further and further into the future. Since our last visit to the canal, the new locks have been...
by The Inside Cabin | Jan 9, 2018 | 2018 Grand World Voyage, Panama, Panama Canal, Central America
Panama Canal Today we will transit through the Panama Canal. It’s always exciting to watch this engineering marvel in action. The new, wider locks are open and in service, but we will be using the original locks. We arrived at the Gatun locks at 7 am and would spend...
by The Inside Cabin | May 5, 2016 | Central America, 2016 Grand World Voyage, Panama, Panama Canal
We were up before the sun to watch our approach to the Gatun Locks. Transiting the Panama Canal is always exciting regardless of how many times I have done it before and always worth getting up a little early to watch our approach. We went to the observation platform...
by The Inside Cabin | Jan 10, 2016 | 2016 Grand World Voyage, Panama, Panama Canal, Central America
Day 6 Cruising the Panama Canal Sunset Photo by Judy Z Unlike a dedicated Panama Canal Cruise, where the transit is the main event, this time it is simply another wonder of the world amongst dozens of other wonders. Nevertheless, it is still spectacular and something...
