Other. Girls get a. Little. Pelham in to the drum of joy was written in one thousand eighteen is a simple advertising jingle for adults but today the sun is a National Symbol of animal popular street musicians and on the waterfront of the capital panama city. Back there last night during the german Childrens Book or third yellow show also penned in ensuring the popular from age to the country with his book the trip to panama its title in german translates as our how beautiful panama is done. Not accorded on the morning. Here now not a bad mama. Roma were going on a journey to discover for ourselves that it has run alongside from all the no central and latin of the level. It would. Normally. Not blah blah blah blah blah. Blah downloadable. Yeah. Ok young man but you know. Panama is the southern most Central American nation and the countrys narrow is pointing its canal connects the coastal cities of panama city and cologne the pacific with the atlantic and caribbean. The ticket hole in the station of the Panama Canal Railway is low on charm and there arent many customers its the rainy season and that means low season. But. Thats where i a total of ten diesel electric locomotives hold the passenger trains then named of the stations along the route that numbers derives from the early years of the railway in panama our trains ready it has a locomotive and both ends this push pull system means the stuff dont have to do any shunting at the final stops. Julie bantu elementary is a tour guide hell be showing as a very special corner of his country served by students trying to top up their income a small but welcome breakfast at seven fifteen on the dont the only passenger train of the day departs panama city for. The seventy seven kilometer trip takes around an hour and. Only runs with days undeterred by the early hour passengers from many countries have come along for the ride the excursion is one of numerous Tourist Attractions in pam and. Theres the task will be yet panama citys old town for example a unesco World Heritage site the architectural splendor of panama as colonial past still shines bright here the buildings were commissioned by newcomers from spain and later from france and north america the days when trams rode through the quarter are long gone. In the heart of the city on your dress polish really in respondent white is the impressive rock at the draw metropolitano. The old town is panama citys number one tourist attraction. In recent years the spate of private citizens have been investing in the renovation of its many dilapidated buildings. Gentrification is pushing up rents in casco and changing its character a problem faced by many old towns around the world. But for tourists the colorful buildings are a picture perfect backdrop act. Time and again the streets and squares of ford attractive views of panama cities modern skyline. Theres a lot of bold architecture beyond the waterfront road and we need a. Latin americas highest skyscrapers can be found here International Trading houses banks and hotels. Panama city at the pacific end of the canal is the seat of government as speculators paradise Money Laundering center and a destination for migrants its a cosmopolitan city undergoing rapid growth the capital is home to one and a half million panamanians thats more than a third of the countrys entire population that number swells every day with the influx of commuters the public transport system is largely service by buses these are often painted vehicles are known as the able Author Office red devils hat and metro opened in panama city in april two thousand and fourteen the citys very proud of it its central americas only underground railway. Is sixteen kilometers long and traverses the city south to know a second line is under construction and a third one is in planning. Act. The operator of the state run metro says two hundred fifty thousand passengers use line one every day there are nineteen trains with three carriages each on the line they were built in spain they operate at three minute intervals servicing fourteen stations packed their own many tourists out on foot amid the exhaust fumes in modern panama city they prefer to admire its skyline from afar tourism elsewhere in the country on the other hand is evolving into a key income generating industry has actually thats the idea of to be. Promoting panama as a tourist tourism destination and the panama has many attractions and thats why we are happy that we are. A lot of tourists from all over the world so were becoming a very trendy country. With regards as tourists of the panama canal has been a destination for travelers for a century not many people explore the country beyond it sure i mean its our Main Attraction people think of they come out when they. Leave when they go back home they. Just have a lot of other beautiful things to offer as well as. A trip on the panama canal run away is one such attraction it guarantees views that you wouldnt get in a calm or armful of the canal zone is closed off apart from a few Access Points of the looks and trains are allowed in for. The squeeze it journey doesnt come cheap. A train ticket from panama city to cologne cost twenty five us dollars. The bus equivalent is two dollars fifty to me thats probably why its only tourists enjoying the views in the historic carriages. Their feet for many people the trains just too expensive its just for tourists which i think is a shame sometimes people from panama city ask me where i work i tell them on the train they think im in the metro docking for free or very recently and many dont even know the Panama Canal Railway and theyve never been to cologne the place were going there lacking was about and they often ask me what kind of train this is. One of the carriages of the train is reserved for. Employees of the cologne free trade zone they use it to go to book a variety of antagonism but i want to get your schedule is set so that we get to work on time and get us thinking we depart panama city at quarter past seven and we arrive at twenty past eight and are in the office on time. Then we work for eight hours which is the norm in panama where you have to be one of the companys managers thats what gives you the privilege of taking the train. Every year when its not cheap after all. The ticket. Is it too expensive for regular panamanians cameo more for them and they might try the train one day just for fun. Enormous out of. We take this train every day but only because the company pays for it otherwise we wouldnt be able to afford it. Near a floater is his room again and get to move the ship has to post three lengths to get from the pacific to the atlantic or vice versa by the shortest route possible namely eighty one point six kilometers. The tugboats the deceased the huge vessels play a crucial role there called a remote though it is in spanish. Everything. That engines have more than six thousand horsepower our boats currently maneuvering a chinese container vessel into the mirror flores look. There to talk with rain are assisting the ship one on about me and. The reason im here is to help them. Control if need be to stir and help not have headway able to slow him down or even stop while the other one on the bow dressed to control the bowing and keeping interest me because its a canal and not open water its better for the ship actually for us to move whether it be in. A couple angles or in his course or a couple of degrees in the course. And for him to you know eventually get into the logs easier rather than trying to steer and then the ship being heavy or not make a wider turn and this is certainly what we need. Once we do the luggage goodbye and so im ok. Once he goes by himself then we go and. There we take up again make sure you goes into me and then we repeat the process in two hours to an hour until we get to go say. Raising and lowering the water level in a low Chamber Takes around ten minutes around four hundred thousand liters of water on the move container vessel will head on to the gap to know where other tug boats would sisted after around ten hours it will be in the atlantic and get shift is over for today heres my log book a one two three four five six right now. You can get to work today. And thats just a normal day. Usually sometimes or in the more very few times just let. The japanese mutes the electric locomotives that run on the whos working credit because they pulled a huge ships through. Knocks more than thirty of them per day. Locomotives are equipped with two motors of two hundred sixty horsepower each as well as a rock rail system made in switzerland cope with his grip essential rock which gives them support. Yet another rail supplies the muse with electricity. Then named after the pack animals that traditionally carry goods on the panama canal route. You know the number up a kilometer in their coal in mules because there were courses there they need to be very strong for that you know that its all about the work they do at least. The animal exactly running mom up to fourteen thousand ships again make their way through the panama canal which was opened in one thousand nine hundred fourteen and not gates still hopeful the general didnt want to give the downside you cant hold them so far nothing serious has happened in the canal listening to very carefully that makes me incredibly proud of. This engineering feats the greatest thing my country has to offer i mean lots of different cultures work and everyones passionate about it offering the best service around the clock the ships from all around the world what are. The construction of the impressive panama canal was documented by the new york artist william b. Van engelen in realistic mural paintings they were installed in the panama canal headquarters in one thousand and fifteen. The building is located on a hill twenty six meters above sea level which is a privilege to the highest elevation in the canal. And avenue illustrates the length and width of the locks. One of the exhibitions in the Panama Canal Museum displays objects from the everyday lives of panamanians. Zip it highlights the canals increasing importance in public and private life from the early twentieth century. Many developments in panama are associated with the isthmus but theres of course more to the country than can now the museum seeks to answer questions on the identity of panamanians. We were bad before it can now and we were panamanians before dick and now. It bad can at least part of our identity but is not the only part. And the building of that identity is a dish scribble this this museum. The canal Museum Opened in the old quarter of panama city in one nine hundred ninety seven. Recreated scenes from the lives of canal workers the famous photograph of president Theodore Roosevelts visit to the canal a rusty wagon from what was then the Worlds Largest construction pit pictures newspaper articles and tools not least for the newly created Railway Department the collection has its very own history. This museum on began without anything so i put an ad in a paper that said be a part of the history of you have thought so and saw these kinds of things please contact me and they. Response of the people was a. B. C. People began. Calling and calling and bringing things and we found that range that is remember from the station and that wonderful piece that is from sally janes farhad and you can see in there really or lift up of theres train station a rich digital photo album tells the story of the panamanian railway it traversed the country from ocean to ocean long before any ship in the can now from eight hundred fifty five on would say it sped travelers from having to sail the longer route around cape horn but the tip of south america they were on was that opportunity to carry three days in most not only carriage and people were coacher thoughts. And to enrich our identity. The Panama Railway was founded in new york more than ten thousand workers died from malaria cholera during its construction. The railway was initially a Success Story but the significance faded with the completion of the trans continental route across the United States in one thousand and sixty nine it regained importance during the canals construction when the french began excavation in eight hundred eighty one they bought the railway and used it to transport workers and materials. They ran out of money however and in one thousand nine hundred four the United States acquired control of the canal zone overseeing the project to its successful completion now the Old Railway Route had to be changed because it followed the river valley that would be flooded the mine was relocated at a cost of nine Million Dollars during the canals construction trains counted the way around. Two hundred million cubic meters of soil and rock nobody cared about their fate when the area was flooded on the fifteenth of august nine hundred fourteen the panama canal opened to traffic and. Last while the shipping route flourished from the outset the railway was in the red nationalizing it in one nine hundred seventy seven made no difference either. The railway line once celebrated as the first into oceanic connection on the isthmus decayed for decades it was rescued by a private company that has been operating the Service Since the year two thousand on new tracks through the canals and. Our guy jill dando is a member of the crew not an indigenous tribe who live on the san blas islands off the coast of panama the train used to be cheap and he remembers the people especially me and my gran that we moved sometimes to the island by boat respected friend has come to see them here in the panama city beach. He was working in the panama canal and i thank god. He was of the first school i. Work in a certain panama canal banjo has lived in panama city for a long time he likes it bad but nothing beats our limp luck this is a small x. In the city and. Because. Theyve only been out to the marbury metra life so we dont report it and went to the to the so we came. Theres nothing like that dont worry about what time is now. That. There is a roller coaster like road through the rain forest to the huna yana region on panamas north coast we company to bet on a trip that. Was. Bad that. You know in ireland on the san blas on the palate go are inhabiting. In one thousand nine hundred twenty five the cool down one autonomy from the panamanian government in a bloody fight for the survival of their culture. Every Island Community has its own rules some reject tourism of those who have cautiously opened their a dinner world to outsiders. Do their job is from the island of counties. And where allowed to accompany him that. Were the most lawyer for the. Family and in some of the. First we introduced in the congress all the assembly hall. That was. Directed at him or her for that hes like a minister of culture for all the communities and thats again a little hes just visiting tomorrow hell travel to pyongyang and the cool part of solar where hell talk about the tradition in the look over there we have all three will cheat us this is the most important house of the canal culture and thats why all visitors should come here and drink the chips are good for like a small donation is expected katine is home to a thousand people other communities count just one hundred members of the islands maybe remote but so net energy and mobile phones on a rarity many who now work on the mainland they bring the technology with them when they return home a small festival is just coming to an end and the women and girls seem to have dressed up for the occasion but in fact these colorful clothes are every day outfits. The chops are a dualist created applique fabrics known as move those theyre designed to protect the wearer from the dangers of life. The small village Museum Displays many spiritual objects of the coun our culture along with a large collection of moulins which are popular souvenirs among visitors to panama. But the museums curator underlines the true purpose. That is not in the corporation the more losses to protect the spirit of god because i live on the board in the war most of them all of this work in public color is the black one we used to laugh. Used to hide in the knife to hide in the spirit of the red color red color here is but the quinoa assist you happy like the spirit of the spirit the yellow one is double the gold in the chain it is like the sun is still to know among all the ones about this page the green is about the mainland of the mountain everybody make but most women out there the female and they dedicate to make them all of somebody sometime sometime this summer i learned the good of mankind at war they can do that but the moral of this is personal for them you know. How similar made several layers of fabric are placed on top of each other patterns a cut out and the edges are sent to get the by hand. In the language must sell or tells us a little bit about her life. And we made them all which are read anywhere and then in the language mother and grandmother turn to everything she says the fabrics cant be bought in the city they dont use natural dyes that she often produces traditional patterns but very modern ones too she sells them for around twenty dollars in White American mine. Only when economic convoy ok believe there is a load on them. And even though i know jude banjo and his mother when hes in. City the thing he misses the most is how cooking. Monarchs i had in the bottle eighty percent of the food traditionally eaten here is healthy. No exaggeration. Its a digest fish and other seafront. Theres smoked fish uka all good nails and if they want to make lanterns we cook them and coconut milk nuts to coo not just. Whenever i visit the island after having been in the city i wish i could stay that i want to better but oh well i have to go back to work. But oh yes its a magical place im with a lengthy its name and could not see a while. In spanish its called christine by yours but its real name is c. Im glad. Better c. R. Y. Dont hassle greg anonyma see what all or do you misuse some. Within. The city this is a year and she says yes means yes and the cool not which but i come every saturday when they like the. United states handed the can our over to panama in one thousand nine hundred ninety ownership of the railway meanwhile passed to the us Companies Kansas City seven and me jack products which leases and services terminal equipment like cranes and services operated by the Panama Canal Railway company fast transport of containers from coast to coast is a lucrative business. While boys the Third Largest port in the whole of latin america situated at the pacific entrance to the canal terminal never sleeps. Feel. Many more the vessels are too big for a canal thats now more than a century old as a result ships unload their cargo onto smaller cargo vessels on to dump. Decker freight trains. The normal fear that we have seven trains and total i think five in panama city two in cologne. We move them from one side to the other so that we always have five here and two that we dont have a set schedule only rough john it all depends on the speed at which things get done at the polls our Company Works with them we dont have any influence on the tunnels of we have to wait until they bring us the containers and then we can determine a Departure Time on the freight trains are our Main Business transporting International Goods and not just destiny upon him theyve often come from asia and dial had it on to the north and south america or the american. Macand of excitement other countries have trains doesnt exist in panama. Since Passenger Rail services very limited many panamanians dont understand the significance of the railway including its historical significance nobody uses it Business People do of course and International Visitors about the panamanians dont care at all about the railway. Train driver enrique climbs on to his workplace he doesnt know yet when hell get the departure signal for cologne. He gets his diesel locomotive ready its an s. D. Sixty built by General Motors in the eightys it has three thousand eight hundred horsepower is he happy with it. And could do better. But. That. Anything worth it in there is there that. Kind. I think you are. Bored with. That. Right now if they think theyre going. To. Give them a. Few. Of the locomotives which have to pull up to four and a half thousand tons several times a day all maintained in the companys own repair shop. Basically what we do here we repaired all the love all of the body. You just feel manav that love water we repeal area were rebuilding the frame of being and we rebuild our home or whole being deny review we can look at all of the moral there we go things being done on the will we change wheels we basically we become the look of what were rebuilding from all didnt get it. We do there being ninety days is big enough to fill a model of a motor home getting the shaft to their. Feet so any two we find on a level more than make it work under present i. An interesting sign on the railway line is the gamboa bridge over the child grace river no other sponsor sees a close a convergence of the canal road and rail tracks from here the canal runs through lake got to move on to fishley flooded region that spans some four hundred twenty square kilometers the motive for the lake comes from the dams river next to it is the silver and National Home with its impenetrable rain forest. A rain forest result runs guided tour. Into the area for example on a socalled aerial tram that runs above the canopy of trees at a height of eighty five meters. And you are only. Human you know. You. Are in the form please very important in panama is a part of survival and by honda they feel good types in all get a bullet and the land is really happy because all the trees a good old four table in the area here they feel very happy in they feel happy we feel happy also very happy because you can bring better the oxygen is excellent in this area. That sounds like monkeys. Sometimes. Long piece they can live sound. Is nice i like it sometime we can hear the sound of a song tired visible body made a few years we have only thirty now use a good piece. Of this area still face couple monk use a we have a snake. In this area. Tion dr official font is visible. And killing us. Very nice. Long five meters. Folks seek comfort over. The friends of the people. But the climb is worth it. Now in our. Expense. They recycle sixty. Because now. Weve been. Told. No. Water. They go to the oceans at the moment the too big with the water reservoirs are still under construction yasmine has no trouble explaining the come out system. Say leave all of the pacific and and you can go here. Now here. After. Lake get two in is twenty six meters above sea level and connects the pacific and the caribbean in the long ships the rains to this level below it again railway line runs over a dam away from the canal. Pass. A boat trip across the artificial lake isnt without its dangers when the canals built only trees near the shipping channel were found the remains of the former rain forest have been steadily decomposing for bore than one hundred years now. Her entire trains were abandoned and submerged when the can out was flooded. How her. Her. This underwater museum will exist for a long time to come and it is well guarded in. The orleans. As clue is as go to the log on the atlantic entrance to the canal ships have been sailing into the harbor of where they can still buy for more than one hundred fifty years now its one of the oldest in panama the tourist train journey ends in a completely unspectacular station in the port of call on a fleet of taxi drivers are standing by to pick up the passengers visitors can now take a day long visit to Historic Towns such as what the belo on the caribbean coast train stay here for nine hours locomotive is only used for passages services. A person everybody to pass a place isnt a fortune its quite small. The train is my life at the moment it takes me back and forth like a car and its also my workplace so its my life. Since i was a child i wanted to work on the road. I mean you know well take a little nap and then hell work in the harbor before driving the train back to panama city. A. Cologne is the second largest free trade zone in the world nevertheless its affleck. And since seen a steady decline since the late sixtys. The switch to newer technologies for processing goods at the Container Terminal has led to a sharp rise in unemployment the dejection is visible in the streets. Tour guides warn of a high crime rate and yet cologne hasnt totally lost its caribbean charm. Its early evening and time for the Panama Canal Railway to take its passengers back to the capital. What did the Tourism Industry say too was in the beginning sure the canal is our Main Attraction but we have many other beautiful things to offer thats exactly what we learned on our trip to. I think alex plan way down to our man. Goes down to the only other border looking out the more you know down. In darling dont get all the leg of the world the. Other. Day. I had a. Long. Long night. What i hold is a cage. Social worker like shining campaigns on behalf of the disadvantage. 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