From Panama City you will take a train ride across the Isthmus on the historic newly restored Panama Canal Railway in refurbished air-conditioned passenger cars. The need for the railway was inspired by the California Gold Rush.  The passenger line goes alongside locks, across tropical jungle and through Panama's most historic areas. All aboard? I will pick you up at Colon where the train ride ends and we will head to Colon Free Zone , Latin America’s most important Duty Free Zone and the most important distribution centers in the world for imports and re-imports for Latin America.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Did you know:

-That at US$295 a share, the Panama Railroad was at one time the highest-priced stock on the New York Stock Exchange?

-That the PRR was the most expensive (per mile) railroad ever built? It cost 8 million dollars and took 5 years to build.

-That at US$25.00 in gold, for 47 and a half miles,
the PRR was the most expensive railroad (per mile) to travel?

-That more than 12000 people died in the construction of the Panama Railroad?

-That disposing of the dead was becoming such a problem, 
that the Railroad started "pickling" the bodies in barrels
and selling them to medical schools?
The proceeds  were then used to build a hospital for the Railroad.

-That during the first 12 years of its operations, the Panama Railroad carried over US$750,000,000 in gold dust, nuggets, and gold and silver coin--and collected a quarter of one percent on each shipment.

-That the Panama Canal would have been impossible to build without the Panama Railroad?

After Lunch we will drive to Fort San Lorenzo, passing by Ft. Sherman, which used to be one of the world’s best military jungle survival schools that trained U.S. and Latin American personnel in jungle warfare and survival technics. Fort San Lorenzo, one of the two main forts build in the late 16th century, meant to protect the final part of the trail known as “Camino de Cruces”, the trails that the Spaniards had developed across the Panamanian isthmus to carry all the gold looted by the Conquistadores from South America which left for Europe. Subsequently we will drive back to Panama City.

 

Your purchases at the Colon Free Zone, will be subjected to aduana formalities if you want to take out the merchandises with you. Take in consideration that the main purpose of this area is for wholesale sales, therefore many shops will require a minimum amount of sales to be able to honor your purchases. Alternatively the acquired products could be retired at the International Airport just before your departure  not being subject then to duties or taxes.

 

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