Bill and Alice toured the facility at the Miraflores Locks of the Panama Canal, arriving just in time to see the last vessel of the morning transit from the lower lock to the higher lock and then out into the open channel leading to Gatun Lake. Bill took video and Alice took still photos of the amazing process!
Then we enjoyed a stroll through the museum and watched a movie presentation regarding the current expansion project which will allow the world's supertankers to transit the Panama Canal. Currently, the locks will not accommodate the largest tankers.
Following our visit to the Canal we drove to the Panama City Temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, which sits on a hill above the right bank of the canal. It is a beautiful building in a beautiful setting. Corozal American Cemetery lies at the base of the temple site and is the resting place for American military and their dependents, one of 24 American cemeteries on foreign soil around the world.
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