We docked at Costa Rica and took a 4 1/2 hour excursion on jungle boats to cruise through the canals of Costa Rica's Caribbean coast.
The main exports are coffee, bananas, pineapple and macadamia nuts. Their major industries are tourism and the manufacture of computer chips. Costa Rica has an annual rainfall of 156 inches which fills the area with orchids, monkeys, crocodiles, sloths and toucans.
On this excursion, we stopped at a banana plantation and a process plant for a close up of the delicious fruit.
The evening show was a hilarious ventriloquist.
Jan. 9
We were up at 5:15 to be first at the bow to see the ship pass through the locks. We had a good up close view as the ship entered the lower chamber and the gates closed. We continued until we navigated into Gatun Lake. The entire transit time until we dropped anchor at Panama City took about 12 hours.
The trip through the canal is at a cost of over $200,000. for our ship.
I will post some pictures that we have taken the past few days.
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I remember going through the locks of the Panama Canal...I was sick..I think I told you all about that.
We have missionaries in Costa Rica..they have been there many, many years. They are from our church originally..k-staters and from the farming area in western Kansas.
Sandra
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