Today, most of original innovations and machinery is still utilized. However, there's no better way to tour canal than in a firsthand experience through its passage.

Touring Panama Canal by cruise ship makes for an amazing vacation and a historical adventure. It takes about eight hours to make passage through three locks, which raise ship solely through gravity through manmade canal over Central America. Head for deck to watch your ship line up in morning to pass through canal. A canal historian aboard ship will serve as your guide and provide a running commentary of interesting details and fascinating facts about Panama Canal's construction and operational history.

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