PANAMA - Panama Canal - Panama City
Start thisone off with some pictures! Difficult one to explain this 
They say that a picture says more than a thousand words. im not sure I agree on that, but hell, going through the canal was a very memorable journey. Those things are huge! The difference between Gaton Lake and the sea level has to be about 20 meters, and the locks bring you aaaall the way up and then all the way down again. I had to go through the canal twice actually, because there is a rule in the canal that each boat has to be at least 5 persons on board, one to control the boat and four linehandlers to control the lines we tie the boat to the sides with. And presto, we are in the pacific! It was really weird, the water is at least 4 or 5 degrees colder here than in the Caribbean – which doesn’t really matter cus it was very hot up there! And now we are in Panama City, which you can see from the picture. It was really weird to sail in, the city has a skyline and everything, felt like I was sailing into New York. Vegard has also arrived now so yesterday we went out to do the city. And I tell you its not easy being three gringos in Panama City looking for a party, every taxidriver wanted to drive us to a whorehouse but we finally managed to end up at a decent bar where we got really wasted.
They say that a picture says more than a thousand words. im not sure I agree on that, but hell, going through the canal was a very memorable journey. Those things are huge! The difference between Gaton Lake and the sea level has to be about 20 meters, and the locks bring you aaaall the way up and then all the way down again. I had to go through the canal twice actually, because there is a rule in the canal that each boat has to be at least 5 persons on board, one to control the boat and four linehandlers to control the lines we tie the boat to the sides with. And presto, we are in the pacific! It was really weird, the water is at least 4 or 5 degrees colder here than in the Caribbean – which doesn’t really matter cus it was very hot up there! And now we are in Panama City, which you can see from the picture. It was really weird to sail in, the city has a skyline and everything, felt like I was sailing into New York. Vegard has also arrived now so yesterday we went out to do the city. And I tell you its not easy being three gringos in Panama City looking for a party, every taxidriver wanted to drive us to a whorehouse but we finally managed to end up at a decent bar where we got really wasted.
posted by Arildo at 2:02 PM
1 Comments:
For en tur så langt! Husker jeg var mektig imponerte over panamakanalen selv om vi sto på land og så på.
Er nesten litt misunnelig selv om det skjer mye spennende saker i mitt liv også. Mini-Maja er nå over en kilo og ligger an til å bli en aktiv baby.
Tenker på deg, klem fra Maja.
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