outdoors
The Panama Canal at Miraflores Locks
The Panama Canal at Miraflores Locks
Miraflores Locks Visitor Center, fifteen minutes from downtown. Watching a container ship the size of a city block rise 27 meters in a lock built in 1914 is the most humbling engineering experience in the Americas. The museum tells the full story — the French failure (22,000 workers died), the American completion (5,600 more), and the 2016 expansion. Arrive by 9 AM for morning transits. $20.
