Panama
Panama Canal
Between two oceans in a single day.
A full-day transit of the Canal's locks and jungle lakes, engineering as theatre.
Transiting the Panama Canal is one of travel's great spectacles, and a full day on deck. The ship is raised 26 metres in a staircase of locks, close enough to watch the lock walls slide by, then crosses jungle-edged Gatún Lake with the rainforest and its howler monkeys pressing in, before stepping back down to the far ocean. Onboard narration explains it as it unfolds.
What you’ll do
·Full transit on deck
·Gatún Lake passage
·Onboard Canal narration
·Watch the locks at work
Why it’s special
The locks
Watch the ship lifted between oceans, lock walls at arm's length.
Gatún Lake
A jungle-edged passage thick with birds and howler monkeys.
Ocean to ocean
Atlantic to Pacific in one slow, riveting day.