Canal Tour by car

Half or full day tour to Canal sights
Learn about the Canal driving along from the Pacific entrance to Culebra Cut visiting all or some its emblematic places on the Pacific side:

  • Pacific Canal entrance (Causeway)
  • Bridge of the Americas
  • Administration building
  • Ancon Hill
  • Miraflores Locks Visitors Center
  • French Cemetery
  • Pedro Miguel Locks
  • Centennial Bridge over Culebra Cut of the Canal

This tour is like a half Canal transit where you visit its sights by land.

If wished, you can have an overview of the Canal sights from Ancon Hill Lookout where you can see the places to visit from a distance.

The tour can be extended to a full day tour spending more time at interesting places or including a Canal Boat tour on Gatun Lake of the Canal where you can see the dredging division and how expansion works straightened and widened the Canal. Ships can be seen passing close by and you might encounter one of the huge neopanamax ships in the Canal. In addition you can observe animals at the rainforest shores and islands of the lake. Take a look at our Most Popular Tours

Another option is to do our Ocean to Ocean Canal tour and visit as well the Caribbean side of the Canal. Here you will see at the visitors center the new Agua Clara Locks of the expanded Canal, drive on the new huge Atlantic Bridge over the Canal entrance, see Gatun Locks from a distance and more.