Panama

Historic train in Panama

Full day tour to take one of the last trains in America Latina, visit the Panama Canal center in Agua Clara and have a history tour of Portobelo.

Price from 84$

Schedule

  • 6:30 AM

    Pick up at your hotel in Panama City between 6:30 and 7 AM

  • 7:15 AM

    Start of the train ride on the historical panoramic way

  • 8.15 PM

    Arrival at Colon station and start drive

  • 8.45 PM

    Visit at the visitor center of Agua Clara

  • 10:30 PM

    Drive to Portobelo and visit the city

  • 12:30 PM

    Free time for lunch

  • 2 PM

    End of tour and start journey back to Panama by van

  • 3:30 PM

    Back to your hotel in Panama city

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For any traveler true to his/her name, it’s not the beginning or the destination that counts. It’s the ride in between. This panoramic historical train is alive with things that should be seen and heard. It’s a living, breathing something. You just have to want to learn its rhythm, which is slow and charming. Everything in this tour is a marvel of old fashioned engineering, starting for the train itself, then a pick on the historical side of the famous Panama Canal to the fortress that protected Spanish Gold from pirates and English enemies.

The itinerary

Meeting with the driver-guide and private transfer to Corozal station in time for the morning ride at 7:15 AM on the historic and original panoramic carriage train that connects the capital to Colon. During this evocative journey on the train that crosses the isthmus since 1885, we will observe the rainforest, the unspoiled nature of the Soberanía National Park and the route of the Camino de Cruces, formerly used by the Spanish colonizers to transport wealth from the Americas to Spain. 

Arrival at Colon station at 8:15 AM, where we meet again the driver-guide and continue to the visitor center of Agua Clara. Inaugurated on June 26, 2016 the visitor center is perfect to assist the operation of the new huge locks built for the Post Panamax ships during a speech by a technician to explain in real time the transits in the Caribbean area of ​​Panama comfortably seated in the stands. Walk through the ecological path, with a variety of plants and species that makes the trail an adventure with great scenery and breathtaking views; identify the different species gathered there indigenous to the area of the Canal watershed.

Continue to the small town of Portobelo, declared a World Heritage Site for its cultural and folkloric charm. During the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries, Portobelo was the center of trade in the Caribbean Sea from which Spanish galleons sailed to Europe, loaded with gold from the colonies of South America, and subject of numerous attacks by pirates, including Henry Morgan. We will visit the ruins of the Santiago and San Jeronimo Forts surrounded by the batteries of cannons that remained silent witnesses of the glorious age of pirates, the famous 15th century customs house where Spanish treasures were kept and the church of Portobelo where the miraculous Cristo Negro, Black Christ, is exhibited. Return to Panama City. Estimated arrival at hotel: 3:30 PM.

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We suggest you dress appropriately with light clothes, comfortable shoes, sunscreen, sunglasses, hat or cap and raincoat. You should bring cash for personal expenses.

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