Panama Canal Full Transit

This tour should be considered a once in a lifetime experience as rarely people are able to see such engineering wonder from this perspective. Transportation will you pick up at your hotel, and then be transferred to the Balboa Port, or the Flamenco or La Playita piers to embark in our own vessel and start this famous journey. Upon departure, we will enter the Panama Canal through Miraflores Locks. You will get to experience how your ship is raised up 54 feet in a two-step process. This activity is achieved by sending water from Pedro Miguels lake by gravity to fill the chambers where the ship is locked. Once the first set of locks is transited, the vessel enters Pedro Miguels locks to be raised up to 85 feet. Again, no water pumps are used; they take advantage of gravity to transfer water from Gatun Lake, which is higher, to fill the last Chamber of the Pacific site. Then, the ship transits Gatun Lake, once the largest man-made lake in the world, until reaching Gatun Locks on the Atlantic side. Here, the ship will be lowered to sea level using the same system; however, instead of filling the chambers they will be emptied in a three-step process. It is worth noting that fifty million gallons of fresh water are thrown into the ocean per full transit. This experience ends in our own Colon 2000 port where transportation will be waiting for the transfer back to Panama City. The tour includes breakfast, lunch or sandwich, soft drinks, transfers and a specialized guide.