My latest adventure was to Panama City, and I LOVED it!
Here you can see me at the Panama Canal. I know the canal looks kind of small, but it's not. We saw a giant oil tanker go through. Did you know that some of the biggest ships that pass through the canal pay upwards of $300,000 a trip? And did you know that the biggest container ships that can go through right now hold 5,000 containers, and that the 15,000-container ships have to park offshore, unload everything and send it via rail? But sometime in the foreseeable future, they are going to complete an expansion of the canal so those ships can go through. They are GIANT!!! Also, they can fill and drain the canal lock you see there in the time it takes to fill or drain a bathtub, about 8 minutes. But it holds a million bajillion times more water than a bathtub! (Sorry, can't remember that statistic exactly).
Why else you should visit Panama someday: It is amazing. It is up-and-coming, has a beautiful shoreline/skyline with fantastic skyscrapers, there are great day trips nearby, the city has a low crime rate, great restaurants, and their currency is the dollar, so you don't have to figure out exchange rates and such. Lots of history, lots of good food, lots of roads getting paved and skyscrapers being built, AND it's the only latin american country where you can drink the tap water. I'm telling you folks, you really should go.
2 comments:
I did not know any of those things about the panama canal! It looks really muddy. And as for the bathtub to canal ratio, i think the answer is 4.
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