The Panama Canal

A visit to Panama would be incomplete without witnessing this incredible engineering feat, usually by visiting Miraflores Lock with its excellent historical display. Boats transiting the 80 kilometres of the canal pass through three sets of locks into Lake Gatun – once the largest man-made lake in the world. The lake and its intact rainforests play host to a surprising amount of easily observable wildlife, including spider monkey, white-faced capuchin, squirrel monkey, endemic red-naped tamarin, two and three toed sloth, spectacled caiman, osprey, snail kite and keel billed toucan.