01/01/2023
2022 Christmas & New Year’s cruise aboard the Emerald Princess.
We did the Panama Canal Railway excursion on Wednesday (December 28). They took us by bus from the Pacific side to the Agua Clara Locks (Atlantic side) visitor center. Then we boarded the train which took us back along the Canal to the Pacific side.
The following day our ship entered the Panama Canal from the Pacific side (southeast) exiting into the Atlantic (northwest) in the Caribbean Sea. These are the newer locks built by Panama that run adjacent to the original Locks. The Emerald Princess is too large to go through the original Locks. The Cocoli Locks are the Pacific side and the Agua Clara Locks are the Atlantic side. These raise and lower the ships 85 feet in and out of the Canal.
Also a couple of pics from New Year’s Eve.