If you talk about canals to a British person, and they’ll probably imagine a scene of laid-back leisure, where nobody’s in a hurry. This is by no means the case on the Panama Canal. It’s all mainly business. Cargo ships, the occasional cruise ship, attended by the tugs flitting attentively about, as well as locomotives, referred to as "mules" (above) which haul the ships through the locks.

Read more in Tripatini contributor Keith Kellett´s post Impressions of Panama City and the Canal.

Keith Kellett