Panama Adventure 2002

<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr> <td valign="top" colspan=2 height=110 BGCOLOR="#3300FF" TEXT="#080000" bgproperties="fixed" background="096006e0egaygz.png"> <div> <FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#FFFFFF" FACE="Arial" ><B>GLENN HARDING'S WEBSITE</B></FONT><B>     |     </B><A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="GLENN HARDINGS WEBSITE"><U><B>home</B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id3.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="About Us"><U>About Us</U></A><B>   |   </B><A HREF="id169.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Canada 2007"><U>Canada 2007</U></A><B>   |   </B><A HREF="id175.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Baja, California 2006 "><U>Baja, California - 2006 </U></A><B>   |   </B><A HREF="id142.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Galapagos Islands and Quito, Ecuador 200"><U>Galapagos Islands and Quito, Ecuador 2006</U></A><B>   |   </B><A HREF="id96.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Egypt and Jordan 2005"><U>Egypt and Jordan 2005</U></A><B>   |   </B><A HREF="id134.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Greece and Turkey 2005"><U>Greece and Turkey 2005</U></A><B>   |   </B><B>Panama Adventure 2002</B><B>   |   </B><A HREF="id89.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Costa Rica 2002"><U>Costa Rica 2002</U></A><B>   |   </B><A HREF="id24.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Mayan Adventure 2001"><U>Mayan Adventure 2001</U></A><B>   |   </B><A HREF="id25.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Alaska Vacation 2000"><U>Alaska Vacation 2000</U></A><B>   |   </B><A HREF="id70.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Hobbies"><U>Hobbies</U></A></div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <B>CLICK ON THE LINKS ABOVE  TO GO TO OTHER PAGES</B></div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top" width=190 BGCOLOR="#66CCFF" TEXT="#080000" background="097bec00egdypo.png"> <div> <B>Panama Adventure 2002</B></div> <div> <B>Click on the LINKS below  (when you see the hand) to view the picture pages</B></div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="id79.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Panama City and Museums"><U><B>Panama City and Museums</B></U></A></div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="id87.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="San Blas Islands and Portobelo"><U><B>San Blas Islands and Portobelo</B></U></A></div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="id90.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Panama Canal"><U><B>Panama Canal</B></U></A></div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="id91.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Pearl Islands, Choco Indians and Coiba I"><U><B>Pearl Islands, Choco Indians and Coiba Island</B></U></A></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> </td> <td valign="top" height=370 BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000"> <div> Panama Adventure 2002</div> <div> <IMG SRC="629fc2c0.jpg" border=0 width="508" height="300" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Panama Canal is the culmination of a 400-year search, begun by Christopher Columbus in 1492, to find the shortest route to the Spice Islands and the wealth of the Far East as told by Marco Polo.  This pathway between the seas is the world's major artery for trade and commerce.  This 50-mile canal across the Isthmus and through the mountains started by the French in 1870 and completed by the United States in 1914 is an architectural wonder and was completed with the loss of 25,000 lives and $639 million dollars.  Annual toll revenue is now about $140 million a year.   It is traversed in 8 hours, with an average toll of about $10,000, which is one-tenth the cost of sailing eight thousand miles around Cape Horn. Gatun Lake is dammed to hold the Chagras River water 85' above the seas.  The 52 million gallons of water needed to raise and lower a ship is fed by gravity into the locks.   Here is a collection of pictures I made on a trip with 64 people with the National Geographic tour on the MV Sea Voyager in March 2002 to visit the canal and the people of Panama and Costa Rica. <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial Black" >  </FONT></div> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>