Panama Canal and Costa Rica
with Professor Tony Dalrymple
March 7-15, 2014
From $4,035* per person, (plus air fare and taxes)
Few experiences can match one of the world's msot dramatic voyages, a cruise from one ocean to another through one of the greatest man-made wonders of the world, the Panama Canal. An engineering marvel when it opened one hundred years ago, the 50-mile passage through the Panama Canal continues to astonish the most veteran traveler. Experience firsthand the mightly locks that raise and lower ships 85 feet using no other power than the force of gravity, accomplishing in mere hours what would have taken a three-week circumnavigation of Souther America in years gone by. Just as impressive is the cruise through the lush tropical jungle in the Gaillard Cut, a channel hewn through solid rock eight miles thick where the canal slices through the rugged Continental Divide.
*Early booking price if booked before August 2. Regular price is $5,035.
Dr. Robert A. Dalrymple has been the Willard & Lillian Hackerman Professor of Civil Engineering at Johns Hopkins University since 2002. Prior to that time he was the E.C. Davis Professor of Civil Engineering and founding director of the Center for Applied Coastal Research at the University of Delaware, where he taught for 29 years.