Welcome to Panama! This country is known as the Gateway to the Americas and known
for its marvelous feet of the Panama Canal today we're taking a tour of the
canal and the old town Casco viejo as well as
a few surprises in between let's go check it out
Panama City is modern and known for its skyscrapers we drive north of the city
to the visitor center where we can get a bird's-eye view of the Panama Canal the
Panama Canal visitor center on the Pacific side we're gonna go in
this is the canal this is the map in the Panama to the writer is Costa Rica and
the United States and Colombia and South America so we are here
the expanded canal is used a shortcut right here here and in the other side is
another shortcut here but the waterway is the same for both existing canal and
expanded canal okay the shortcut is right there is just
a wider channel that's what it is and wider with my where are we today we're
on the sixth floor of the miraflores visitors center looking at the lofts
from the pacific standpoint we're really closer to Panama City 50 miles away from
here Atlantic side hey guys so we are at the Panama Canal this is one of the
biggest engineering feats of all the time
fifteen miles long how do we transfer that water from here to there it's under
the chambers there are big code words okay yeah so from the lake so by gravity
eventually we know we lose the water induced will be only by the rain you
will see the doors getting open the level of the water inside and outside is
the same otherwise for security they want opening so here the boat is coming
through the gates just opened and our guide was saying that in order to sail
through they have to have a Panamanian captain and the Panama flag so everyone
is lined up to watch the boat pass through there's about thirty five boats
that pass through in a day and they all have to pay taxes so for example this
boat might pay a hundred and fifty thousand dollars in taxes so it's a huge
economy boost for the country
that's what it is transporting Greek there is the number
of areas in the canal this is the main reason why we don't allow to waste
nothing at all they were using chavos all this kind of tools so you can
imagine my friends how hard this guy's work
the perfection
so revealing and the way each one is comparable with really hungry elephants
nicely right here is we already nesting you later
this simulator is just to give you an idea how proxy thinking on how to be in
love right
this is the middle again blocks
there's a restaurant from up here and in the afternoon you can watch all the
ships come by after watching in awe as the boats from all over the world passed
through the Panama Canal it's time to head to Casco Viejo otherwise known as
the old quarter from the road we can see the old and new Panama's right next to
one another the old quarter was settled in 1673 and is now a designated World
Heritage Site we have made it to the old town in Panama this is a UNESCO World
Heritage Site a lot of the buildings have been restored by the government
and we're gonna go check it out he's Captain Morgan yeah
throughout Panama City's old town we notice many churches many of which date
back to the late 1500s iglesia san jose built in 1675 we are walking through the
old town and behind us is the Church of Our Lady Antigua and now we're gonna go
into the Central Hotel our guide said this is his favorite building
there are definite cartagena vibes here
from this really cool old room here could this nothi me or so we are here
touring with "Latin Escapes" and we're here during offseason this is late June
and as you can see there's not a ton of people so it's really nice and pleasant
but very hot. This building right here this is my
favorite it's got so much character.
So this is called Casa de Francia and our guard was saying that since so many
French people died during the construction of the Panama Canal.
They got this beautiful quarter here and this is like the French Quarter. So it's
low tide right now way over here you can see the bridge of the Americas. Tthis is
the Panama Canal right there.
Bienvenidos a Panama! this is the Panama City right here and right here you can
see the twisty building that's the most famous building in the skyline.
I love this tree - this is the most colorful tree I've ever seen.
cheers BP. we're at a restaurant called Janeiro's on the islands of
Panama City Panama
this is the biodiversity museum and it's built by Frank Gehry famous Californian
and Canadian architect and it's built to look like a waka Mayan bird which is a
looks like a parrot very colorful
and on that note we head back to the airport to catch our flight to Rio de
Janeiro we hope that you enjoyed this video of Panama and get a chance to
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