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Swimming Pool On The Island Princess Cruise Ship On a Panama Canal Cruise
A swimming pool, swimming bath, wading pool, or paddling pool is a structure designed to hold water to enable swimming or other leisure activities. Pools can be built into the ground (in-ground pools) or built above ground (as a freestanding construction or as part of a building or other larger structure), and are also a common feature aboard ocean-liners and cruise ships. [from wikipedia]
Lido Pool Sanctuary Pool
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Lido Pool, On The Island Princess, Cruise Ship, On a Panama Canal Cruise

Lido is an Italian word for "beach" and forms part of the place name of several Italian seaside towns known for their beach, e.g., Lido di Venezia, the barrier beach enclosing the Venetian Lagoon. Possibly, the term found its way into English from English visitors returning from the Lido di Venezia, where sea-bathing took place from the late 19th century.[from wikipedia]

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Sanctuary Pool, On The Island Princess, A Cruise Ship, On a Panama Canal Cruise

A sanctuary, in its original meaning, is a sacred place, such as a shrine. By the use of such places as a haven, by extension the term has come to be used for any place of safety. This secondary use can be categorized into human sanctuary, a safe place for humans, such as a political sanctuary; and non-human sanctuary, such as an animal or plant sanctuary.[from wikipedia]


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