The Panama Canal cruise season runs from October to April. The best time to go is after the rainy season ends in November. 

One of the few engineering marvels in the world the Panama Canal, It should be on everyone’s list of must-see places. Ninety years after its completion, this link between two great oceans is as vital and vibrant as ever. It is also one of the greatest testaments to good old-fashioned Yankee ingenuity that the world has ever seen.

Travelers have always made their way across the 50-mile isthmus that connects North and South America, dubbed the “Crossroads of the World.” But, until the canal was built, the trans-isthmus trek involved a winding path through jungle rivers. In 1880, the French began a canal-building project that after twenty years ended in failure and the death of an estimated 20,000 workers. The U.S. took over in 1903, poured $352 million dollars into the project, and opened the Panama Canal in August of 1914.