This is a picture of the gates and how high the water starts and then what it is lowered to.
This HUGE boat only had 2 feet of clearance on each side of the canal.
Day 12 cont. - so we went to the Causeway and found a quiet little restaurant. After ordering, a couple from Canada walked up and asked to join us for dinner - so, we ate with some really nice people and swapped travel stories. It was fun. Around midnight the fireworks started going off! The causeway is a long road that connects three small islands to the mainland of Panama and it is parallel with the city. So, the Causeway is a great place to watch fireworks and all along the city - as far as we could see on both ends, there were fireworks going off for about a half hour! It was very cool! By 12;30 we started looking for a ride home, and we, along with 30 other people were looking for taxi´s. However, the taxi´s were few and far between so we started calling taxi companies. After about an hour and a half an empty taxi finally stopped for us and we were able to get home. We were started to wonderful if we´d be staying the night on the Causeway so we were very happy to have gotten a cab.
Day 13 - Our hotel is in a very busy area of town where there has been a really neat open market, and vendors on this 10 block stretch of road - no cars allowed. When we got out to find breakfast this morning, nothing was open and the streets were abandoned! Ghost town compared to the night before! So, after some looking, we found some food and then grabbed a taxi to the Panama Canal! The canal was so neat and we spent at least 3 and a half hours there! They had a wonderful visitor center with a HUGE museum that we were in for about 2 hours! It was information overload! Then we watched one little boat, a cruise boat, and finally a big transporter boat go through the Miraflores locks. The story of the canal and the engineering of it is incredible! And ít was completed 90 years ago! Tristan and I really loved it! The Panama Canal is the 8th wonder of the world and is a must see! They are soon going to be building another set of locks for bigger ships because now the world is making ships bigger than can fit in the canal.
After the canal we went to the movie theatre - along with the rest of the city to watch National Treasure II. It was a long night of standing in lines - we stood in line, after buying our tickets, for 50 minutes just to get into the theatre itself. I don´t think we´d go to the movies here again. But, oh well. The rest of the city was closed and we didn´t want to sit in our hotel room all night.
Day 13 - Our hotel is in a very busy area of town where there has been a really neat open market, and vendors on this 10 block stretch of road - no cars allowed. When we got out to find breakfast this morning, nothing was open and the streets were abandoned! Ghost town compared to the night before! So, after some looking, we found some food and then grabbed a taxi to the Panama Canal! The canal was so neat and we spent at least 3 and a half hours there! They had a wonderful visitor center with a HUGE museum that we were in for about 2 hours! It was information overload! Then we watched one little boat, a cruise boat, and finally a big transporter boat go through the Miraflores locks. The story of the canal and the engineering of it is incredible! And ít was completed 90 years ago! Tristan and I really loved it! The Panama Canal is the 8th wonder of the world and is a must see! They are soon going to be building another set of locks for bigger ships because now the world is making ships bigger than can fit in the canal.
After the canal we went to the movie theatre - along with the rest of the city to watch National Treasure II. It was a long night of standing in lines - we stood in line, after buying our tickets, for 50 minutes just to get into the theatre itself. I don´t think we´d go to the movies here again. But, oh well. The rest of the city was closed and we didn´t want to sit in our hotel room all night.
1 comment:
hi mr. tristan mohagen!
wow, it's wonderful that you and your wife really like Honduras and its people. I was looking a paper that you gave to 9th B with your e-mail, and I lost it. So I tried searching your name in google and I found it!
I was looking some of your pics and you and Jonny are near the top of a volcano, is that volcano in Costa Rica?
If not I'm sorry I just didn't read all of what you post it.
P.D.:
You, your wife,and some of your friends are invited to stay one day at my grandpa's mansion up in the hills of Tegucigalpa. There is an olympic pool. Just tell me if you want to go so I can pick you both (also Jonny; if he wants to)
in my grandma's H3T.
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