Panama Canal Transit
It was only yesterday that we fell seduced to the turquoise waters, the white sand, and the corals of the Panamanian Caribbean coast; hosted by the Kuna Indians and their motley assembly of forms and colors.
Tomorrow we will find ourselves among the Embera natives of coastal Darien, in a different culture, a different environment, and a different ocean! Exploring another side of the Panamanian landscape. It may feel as if we have traveled thousands of miles; and that probably would have been the case had the Panama Canal not been where it is.
Considered by many “The Eighth Wonder of the World” the Canal is indisputably the greatest feat of modern engineering, for a number of reasons: It has reduced the distance between the world’s two largest oceans; it still operates like it did almost a hundred years ago when it first opened its doors to world commerce; and despite the fact that it changed forever the geography and the natural environs that surround it, it is absolutely dependant on the forces of nature to function.
It was only yesterday that we fell seduced to the turquoise waters, the white sand, and the corals of the Panamanian Caribbean coast; hosted by the Kuna Indians and their motley assembly of forms and colors.
Tomorrow we will find ourselves among the Embera natives of coastal Darien, in a different culture, a different environment, and a different ocean! Exploring another side of the Panamanian landscape. It may feel as if we have traveled thousands of miles; and that probably would have been the case had the Panama Canal not been where it is.
Considered by many “The Eighth Wonder of the World” the Canal is indisputably the greatest feat of modern engineering, for a number of reasons: It has reduced the distance between the world’s two largest oceans; it still operates like it did almost a hundred years ago when it first opened its doors to world commerce; and despite the fact that it changed forever the geography and the natural environs that surround it, it is absolutely dependant on the forces of nature to function.
