Panama Railroad

THINGS TO DO, PANAMA Updated : May 23, 2016, 12.32 PM IST

Ajita Chowhan

Over the past decade Ajita has extensively explored more than 30 countries in Latin America, South East Asia, North America, Western Europe, Scandinavia and Africa. She is an ardent believer of the slow, long-term travel enabling most authentic understanding of culture, landscape, people and society. She continues to do so by currently living and working in the Northern Congo Basin in Sub-Saharan Africa. She curates her elsewhereness as A Small Town Girl at http://www.asmalltowngirl.in.

Photo courtesy: Ajita Chowhan
Costly, but worth it! Not many rail services can take you cross-country in a matter of 60 minutes. One of the world’s greatest and scenic train rides, it connects Colon on the Atlantic Coast and Panama on the Pacific. A one-way ticket costs $25 and the round-trip fare is double. The fare is $15 for children and $17.50 for senior citizens. The train runs parallel to the canal route, chugging steadily over the man-made lakes that feed the locks of the Panama Canal. The one-hour rail journey goes through scenic routes that enable tourists to feast their eyes. The train runs only on weekdays, departing from Panama City at 7:15 am and from Colon at 5:15 pm.
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