The Liberian oil tanker Socrates enters the Panama Canal, empty of cargo.
The Panama Canal was completed by the United States in 1914. The French worked on the canal for 13 years, but gave up after they incurred 22,000 deaths and the construction firm went bankrupt. Completed by the USA in 10 years, it is considered one of the seven engineering marvels of the world.
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Just a small section of the buildings overlooking the seaport of Cartagena, Colombia
The movie ‘Romancing the Stone’ with Danny DeVito, Kathleen Turner and Michael Douglas helped popularize Cartagena, Colombia. Colombia is also well-known for its association with the Medellin drug cartel. For both of these reasons, I was not expecting much when visiting Cartagena. What a surprisingly beautiful city it is from our ship’s port.
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