Traveling by train in Panama | DW Documentary
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- Опубліковано 31 січ 2018
- The Panama Canal Railway runs parallel to the Panama Canal, connecting the Pacific to the Atlantic Ocean. The train ride is a popular journey among tourists.
Although much older than the famous canal, the Panama Rail Road never enjoyed the same recognition. The maiden voyage across the Isthumus of Panama in 1855 was the first train to run from ocean to ocean. Its significance was lost, however, just four decades later when the U.S. opened a route connecting the Atlantic and Pacific coasts. Today a train ride along the old line is a treat for tourists.
Ever since it opened for commercial operations in 1914, the Panama Canal has been greatly beneficial to the economy in Central America. Eighty-two kilometers long, it meant goods could be shipped from the Atlantic coast to the Pacific coast much faster; a single journey could be reduced by a good three weeks. From 1914 until 1979 the canal was under the control of the United States. For two decades it was then jointly controlled by the US and Panama and in 1999 full control was given to Panama. This incredible feat of engineering is the pride and joy of its citizens and generates around 40% of the national income. But before the canal, the Panama railway was the first to affectively connect the Atlantic with the Pacific. Today, 77-kilometre route between Balboa harbor in Panama City and the port of Cristóbal on the Atlantic is used to transport both freight and passengers. The panorama cars offer tourists a unique view of the canal. On the small islands off the Caribbean coast, they can also visit the Kuna, an indigenous people with a unique way of life. The Casco Viejo, the historic quarter of Panama City, is also well-worth a stopover.
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Have been there in Jan. 2020 .took a train ride .visited near by islands. Fell in love with Panama and the people. Ljfe time memories. Love from Ukraine! ⛴
This is my country Panama. Wonderful video about the Canal and history. Panama have many beautiful places to visit. The coast to coast is water.
Why Panamanian speak Spanish? Don't you have your own native language?
@@borrogove they were colonized by Spain, like most latinamerica
@@jimmy_ripper691 Same reason why the Irish speak English even though the native language is Gaelic.
@@borrogove colonized by Spain, the it was park of great Colombia before separating and becoming their own country
@@borrogove Our indias has a diferent language but we as almost all latin america speak spanish bcs of the spanish domain
"Deutsche Welle train documentary" is a highest quality mark. They are all just perfect!
Here is lovely place to see
True that. I watched them all & enjoyed. Quality written all over them.
I like to say that a "Deutsche Well train documentary" is akin to "USDA Prime Beef" a sign of excellence one can recognize and faithfully rely upon as an indicator of quality!
I cannot wait to visit... 🇵🇦🇵🇦🇵🇦🇵🇦 from America 🇺🇸
Me too I can’t wait to see it cheers 🥂
Ok
I work in Panama for almost 3 yrs.I am a Filipino and they told we are the most hospitable people in the world but for me its Panamanian.I missed Panama a lot. Hoping to go back again and see my Panamanian Family.
Thank you man! That’s a lot coming from a Pinoy. I am Panamanian and I think Filipino people are amazing. Hard workers and some nice and warm. They are a lot like Latin Americans.
So sweet 🤗✨
When I was a kid, my late grandfather would take the bunch of grandkids up to the Pedro Miguel locks to watch the boats going through the locks and the train 🚂 passing by. That was his way of calming us down before bath time. That's the reason I have a fascination with trains. I miss those days. 😢
Cool story, you say he took you up there before bath time, so you swam in Panama Canal ???
@@larsstougaard7097 Never lol He would take us right before bedtime after a had day of playing games 😁
@@DarknessFalls29 😁👍🛳
I’ve lived in the United States for 35 years but my heart is in Panama. There isn’t a day that goes by that I don’t think about my place of birth. This documentary makes me want to go back
Panama is a beautiful place, worth visiting, From Barbados.
Fell in love with Panama wish i could have taken a train ride We drove everywhere saw the trains
Lived in the Canal Zone, Panama, for 11 years. What a wonderful experience.
You seem to be truly enjoying the place! I'm happy for you!
Cheers & mabuhay from tropical Philippines!
My wife and I had a wonderful time in Panama. I only wish we had taken this train ride. That is one of the things we missed. Of course, we spent a good deal of time in Boquete. I would love to visit Panama again. The seafood and local cuisine was wonderful. Panama is a rich cultural experience.
I moved here a year ago. I married a Panamanian woman. I will definetly take the train ride
If You come next time visir Bocas del Toro Islands, San Blas, and other places if U decide to go to Bayano Lake just let me know
Why missed it? Everybody knows there is a train line there. You can plan things, can't you? And when you like trains, reading the Paul Theroux novels (maybe fifty of them, by now) is a MUST. Oh yeah.
Belize central America I'm from!! Sending love to Panama!!✌🙏🌎💖🇧🇿🇵🇦🤗💯
The Scenery is unprecedented. Panama City offers a diverse lifestyle especially for some of us who love the Ocean, water bodies and the Country side. Kudos to DW showcasing this to the World.
NOW PANAMA IS TAX HEAVEN FOR ASIAN BLACK MONEY LEADERS.
Im from Panama and this brought joy to me! Thank you for such a beautiful documentary!💕
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How is corona virus? is it trending down...I yearn to visit
@@buildindian8169 nope. It's getting worse
I love these train and bus travel docus! They're my favorite!
My father used to travel to Panama very often when I was little for business and he used to talk about it all the time! I never had the chance to go but this makes me want to visit!
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you are always welcome!😊
DW has the best documentaries in the whole world..👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
Discovery a better
Deutsche Welle Documentaries have surely ascended to the pinnacle of global public broadcast journalism with their ephemerally engaging programs.
DW thanks for this wonderful documentary, didn't miss anything about the railroad, the canal an our history as Panamanian. 😘🇵🇦
Thanks for this video, I lived in Panama as a child and haven't been back since I was a child, I'm long overdue for a revisit. I was born in Trinidad and had the privilege of meeting Mr. Spree Simon (the inventor of the Steel Pan) when he was hospitalized at a hospital near my home before he passed away
Admirer of your train docs from Lahore, Pakistan. Love and peace to everyone watching this documentary.
I am Panamanian and I visited Lahore a year ago! PAKISTAN ZINDABAD!
After this, i'm gonna take a train ride through Pakistan next....be safe, love from the Netherlands.....
@@llezman how did you got Pakistani visa?can you tell me plz
You have something on your nose
Spent 3 years stationed at Ft. Clayton, was the best Army tour I ever did...
Luxurious and class in itself. Scenic beauty.
Greetings everybody from Panama City!
Hi @Jose Cardenas,
Thanks for watching!
Greetings from Germany,
The DW Documentary Team
This is one of the best documentary!
My congratulations to the production team for their efforts!!
Biagra
DW has the best documentaries in the whole world! Watching this during lockdown (day 34) makes my mind running wild and so eager to explore new places. #stayhome #staysafe #dirumahaja
Hi..
@The Austins Arema
You're in for a few more days of that lock down my friend
Thanks DW for showing this side of Panama. Very beautiful place.
Love to people of Panama from India
I was station there in the 80's at Ft.Clayton, hopefully I can visit again it's a beautiful country. Aloha from Hawaii
HolalalA from Hawaii. Just kidding. nice comment.
How beautyful Panama is!
I am a guide for tourists here in Panama and I can write here that Mrs. Hagmann made an excellent documentary about the train and the country...Thank you.
We are coming after corona...was there when they began new railroad but haven’t visited since..
My sons have not seen the locks as yet..
Nice documentary. Came to know lot of things on Panama. Love from India, West Bengal.
Hi @Voice Of Junglemahal,
Glad you enjoyed it! Thanks for watching. :-)
Greetings from Germany,
The DW Documentary Team
What?! I never knew you can travel through Panama by train. I'll definitely give it a shot next time I visit!
Viva Panamá 🇵🇦 mi hermosa patria saludos a todos desde Panamá City
Panama is such a beautiful country :)
kshis13 and even better for money laundering
Linh H Le lol. Better than which country exactly? Switzerland? Malta? The US? Come on man! 🤣🤣🤣🤣
@@Etatdesiege1979 still doesn't change the fact we've got some work to do.
@@LinhHLe Exactly...in late 2015, or early 2016, 2 newspapers owned by the Clinton Foundation were forced to shut down because of money laundering. It was on the local news in Panamá, but no one ever heard of it in the states.
Travelling by train in Panama is an interesting documentary as it brings you to areas not often seen by tourists.
been passing this canal every month for 2 years..oh my, how i miss those pasa cables
Panama looks like a chill ass country.
Lol nailed it.
408Magenta lot of Yanks? Lol. How many exactly?
@@Etatdesiege1979 Too many.
Tax evading exiles pollute countries.
I'm Panamanian American, it is! 🇵🇦
My brother, our mother and I are from Panama. This makes us homesick.
What an excellent documentary series. I really enjoy watching these videos.
Hi @Gizo02, thanks for watching!
Well worth the time and money. Such a beautiful country and the people are very friendly.
Brilliant, I’d love to visit Panama. Love from Ireland 🇮🇪 👍
I Love the railroads they take you to see places and people that cars and planes can’t! Great train videos your company makes thanks
Bello Pais Panama Awesome People and Amazing Country of Panama LOVELY COUNTRY!
Always a joy to 'travel' through your documentaries!!
Always a pleasure to present them! Thanks for watching. :-)
OH MY GOD GILBERTO! He was my tour guide to the Kuna Yala in 2008. His English is better than ever!
Another quality production by DW! Very interesting as it is informative. Thanks so much for posting.
No wonder America and the surrounding places are so beautiful. Panama Belize Nicaragua Puerto Rico Costa Rica Hawaii God bless you all
Hawai is On the pacific in Asia and it a state from Us
wow..very informative & made me wanna visit Panama.. Great documentary..
DW ones again thank you 🙏 so much for having seeing a wonderful Documentary to us...
What a charming Documentary, I just hope Colon can get its old world charm 😎👍
Colon used to be very safe in the 60s and 70s. As a Merchant Seaman back then we used to anchor awaiting our turn to transit the canal on our way to Vietnam. Colon was safe and interesting. I do remember a restaurant call the Alhambra that had the best filet mignon I had ever eaten. They also had an excellent shrimp salad. I was in Panama on vacation and took the train from Panama City to Colon, very nice. I always thought the Panama Station was called Ancon Station but I guess I was wrong. What made Colon unsafe was that the demographics changed, if you know what I mean.
@@anthonylafayette4385 Thats racist
@@yerusalemabreha4578
It is not Racist, it is true. Many Colombians settled in Colon.
Thank you DW for a nice and positive documentary about my country. Gut gemacht!
Very nice; Loved it so much
Panama looks beautiful, but the fact that it’s around 32 degrees Celsius every day rules it out as a destination for me.
Beautiful. Thank you for taking me around the world 🌍
Thank you very much for the great documentary
Another great documentary from DW. Danke.
Enjoy every moment in Panama. 🌞🌴🏄
Panamá look like with my region where I live in Amazonas- Brazil
Can't wait to come visit you guys!
Thank you for such a beautiful and interesting documentary of my lovable country 🇵🇦🇵🇦🇵🇦
Hi @Noris Brandão,
Glad you liked it! :-) Thanks for watching.
Best,
The DW Documentary Team
Wow! What great memories this video brings back!
I've taken that train a few times. The one-way fare was $0.50, but that was in the mid 1970's! The trains did not have on board services like this one, but it was only a one-hour ride. Many more Panamanians (and almost no tourists) used the train then.
Yes. And we’d take the famous box lunches from the Tivoli Hotel with us.
Brings back pleasant memories. Rode the train from Colon to PC in 2007.
Panama reminds me of Amazon. Greetings from Brazil.
Back in 1977 the train cost $1.00 in the 2nd class car. Would enjoy going back for a visit. I lived in Gulick at the time.
another great doc, this is my favourite channel in UA-cam
It is fantastic,as fantastic as the canal as well as the railway.Thanks for my mental journey along Panama,the canal,raiway and the land.
Hi @Prabir Datta,
You're most welcome! Thanks for coming along on the journey. :-) Glad you enjoyed it.
Best,
The DW Documentary Team
such a beautiful place
Nyokabi Waweru
Are u ethiopean
పనామా అందాలు అదుర్స్ (Thelugu language, ANDHRA Pradesh, India) Beautiful Places in Panama- Superb
I liked Panama, and thought it was far superior to Costa Rica as a travel destination.
Again a very good documentary film from DW.I rarely watch documentary film from central America country such as Panama and Costa Rica
Lived on both sides as a child..Cocosolito and Ft.Kobbe. My brother and sister were born at Gorgas hospital in 58 and 59 and PC was a scary place back then. I caught a comment on a canal website by my first grade teacher from 1958 that she posted in 2000. I didnt find it until last year. Her name was Jean Liebner. I wrote back to the sight but have been unable to locate her. I was in the very first class that she ever taught as a young woman so finding that really blew my mind. Hope to go back for a visit. As a child, I remember bring attacked by various kinds of wierd insects. The militarty housing all looked the same so I had to memorize where the cars were parked to find my way home. I still remember the colors and makes and years of those cars. It probably still looks that way in Cuba.
I love DW documentary and i love the visit Panama,Costa Rica, Ecuardo,Philippines,and part of south and central America countries.
Some of the views are breathtaking
DW Documentaries are very good and enjoyable I love watching and learning from your informative docs
Hello ms Susan 😘🙏🏻
Absolutely wonderful entertainment from these videos, real life information ,and no fancy camera angles or naff presenter
I loved this documentary!
DW train documentaries. i love it..
Salutations to DW from a hamlet on the slopes of Mt. Kenya viz Nembure, Embu County on my virtual expedition to Central America.
Thanks a lot for watching. We appreciate you taking the time to comment and are glad you liked the film. Greetings from Germany! 🙂
In the old days of serious passenger rail travel you could catch a train in the US (New Orleans, Dallas, El Paso, San Diego and Yuma) which went all the way to South America. It crossed Panama on this railroad. Carlos Tripp (sp), the head of Pan Am Airlines, took the train to the tip of South America to do a leaders recon of the area when planning for his Pan Am Clipper Flying Boat service. Both modes of travel, ironically, now and for decades out of commission for major travelling.
wow, even through the Darien gap area?
itookallthenames this guy is smoking crack.
chakur25 no you can’t. There’s no railroad that takes your from Panama to Colombia.
Yes the train fare was much cheaper years ago, but I must admit they've done a beautiful job restoring the railway service. It will be a bittersweet homecoming for me since I last went in the 90s...so much has changed but I'll always be a Zonian.
Train is lifeline for many as the documentary takes us through spectacular canal route of Panama canal entertaining 😁
v interesting insight into a lesser known country... eye opening..
Beautiful city and great documentary! The images are amazing 😍❤️ Thanks for sharing✨
Thanks for watching.
Panama has so much history!
An exceptional documentary....
Wonderful documentaries they always nail them don't they
Enjoying this quality video.
BEAUTIFUL DOCUMENTARY FOR BUTTERFLY MINDS.
Love to watch.... Lima to Rio bus documentary was amazing......
Excellent report, as usual 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼
I love DW doc films. This is so soothing to watch.
Hi Aniwaba, stay tuned & tell your friends! Big 🙏
@@DWDocumentary I have and I keep sharing all the links to your documentaries I watch with friends.
As a young journalist who aspires to go into documentary productions, you are greatly impacting not only my life but my view of the world.
Me too 😊👏🏻
Great work!!!
That German book has nothing to do with Panama. It´s about dreaming of foreign places and desparately trying to get there and noticing in the end what a beautiful place home is.
I love to travel, and I travel a lot.But this kind of videos makes me travel even more....
Martinelli built the subway and highway projects. Now there are many problems to be solved in panama.
Wow I had no idea there is a train! Adding to the bucket list
Excellent video . A beautiful country.
I am coming !
Great documentary
Always bringing super videos. Keep it up. 👌👌👌👍👍
A really good footage, very interesting. Thanks for loading