First stop today was the Panama Canal! The most impressive set of locks along the canal, The Miraflores, and the visitors centre, with a viewing platform, Museum and theatre. It was quite amazing to watch the ships come through the locks, more that 30 ships per day make their way through the canal. It can take 8 to 10 hours for ships to make the 80km journey along the canal. They go one way in the morning and the other in the afternoon.
We left the visitors centre, to a less busy road, to mount up on our bikes for the last time. We continue near the canal on way to Gamboa and Lake Gatun. Along the way we passed another set of locks and through some more rain forests with a large variety of flora and fauna, we saw lots of butterflies. We arrive at Gatun lake with a single lane bridge in need of repair. Before crossing the bridge we took our last group photo with the Canal in the background. Crossing the bridge was fun with some screaming, as bikes got caught in the broken wood, a left turn up a small hill then down to the end of our bike journey, that started 15 days earlier all the way in Nicaragua.
We had biked some 350 miles or 565km through heat, sunshine, cloud sprinkles and heavy rain. We went back to our hotel to get cleaned up then went to the Old Panama City - Caseo Antiguo - for a explore and out final dinner. A great night had by all.
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Dave, Ollie, Nicky, George, Dennis, Nanno, Roberto
Stewart, Julie, Audrey, Penny (Countess) Nicolette, Jane, Paul, Moya
Paul, Lynette, Anne, Karl
Jacky taking Photo |
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| Julie and Paul |
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| Audrey and Paul |
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| Dave, George and Stewart in their Mankinnis |
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| Crossing the Bridge with Paul |
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| The Finish Line with Roberto our Guide |
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| A celebration drink |
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| Old City Panama |
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| Thanks Roberto, Paul and Nanno |
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| Final dinner |
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| Panamas Hats, overlooking Panama |
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