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Originally Posted by JoMar
We did the entire canal in 1999.....west to east (not geographically correct). For us the attraction to this trip was the history, imagining what it was like when it was constructed, the men who died, the effort to cut through the continental divide etc. If one is not interested in the history, or has not done research, I can see how it would be boring after a short period.
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Well, the whole west/east thing is interesting. If you start on the West coast of the US and go thru the canal toward the Caribbean, you in fact go east to west thru the canal. (actually you go south east to north west. See map below.) Perhaps that is what you meant by not geographically correct.
Thus the western end of the Panama canal leads to the Atlantic while the eastern end goes into the Pacific.