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construction … how it took 10 years to cut through one part alone and what it really all meant in the
way of hardship.”

A century after it opened, the canal still wows visitors. It is why most passengers on my cruise chose
this itinerary, which goes through the first set of locks — into Gatun Lake, 25m above sea level — and
I like to think it was seeing the Panama Canal that inspired my father to train as an engineer.

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