{"id":18974,"date":"2017-02-20T13:50:43","date_gmt":"2017-02-20T18:50:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/panamaadvisoryinternationalgroup.com\/blog\/?p=18974"},"modified":"2017-02-20T13:50:43","modified_gmt":"2017-02-20T18:50:43","slug":"david-loe-packing-fun-and-education-into-panama-canal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/panamaadvisoryinternationalgroup.com\/blog\/david-loe-packing-fun-and-education-into-panama-canal\/","title":{"rendered":"David Loe: Packing fun and education into Panama Canal"},"content":{"rendered":"

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David Loe continues his story of travel to Panama<\/p>\n

Last week I wrote about the pleasure of departing on a cruise from Southern California. The itinerary I selected is a Panama Canal cruise that started in Los Angeles and concludes in Florida.<\/p>\n

Now a week later our ship is actually ready to transit the famed canal after stops in Guatemala, Costa Rica, and the country of Panama itself. While in Panama yesterday a number of us from the cruise ship boarded small 23-passenger motorboats and explored the edge of the dense rainforest that borders the canal. We spotted several varieties of Central American monkeys as well as crocodiles sunning themselves on the shore.<\/p>\n

A large section of the Panama Canal in not a narrow channel as you might expect, but instead an enormous man-made lake. Gatun Lake was created in 1913 by damming a local river.<\/p>\n

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