on your far right hand side you can see a boat full of tourists, crossing the Panama Canal, this is a must see in your lifetime, it's like $8 for admission, and they have a presentation, flyers in spanish and english, explaining the process of the Miraflores Locks, the importance and the mechanism, behind it all, they have a 15 minute movie, in english explaining the construction of the Panama Canal, and they have maquettes and they view of the bridge of a vessel crossing the Canal, (Simulator).
Tankers pass our cruise ship as we leave Colon in Panama.
Heading upriver to an Embera Indian village in a motorized canoe.
A child gets a closer look at one of the friezes near the main rotunda
The blue 75-foot sailing yacht, worth 300.000 dollars, is going to bring us to Colombia. We will first go to some of the San Blas islands, where we will stop for a couple of days.
The scenery of The Paramo (High Andean Grasslands) consists of tough grasses and beautiful patchwork foothills. The city of Otavalo is famous for it’s Saturday market day where many weaving and crafts are sold.
The Valhalla is a big, blue 75-foot sailing yacht, worth 300.000 dollars.
The ship-owner and Captain is Dennis, a 50 year old flamboyant American.