(Bloomberg) -- The three-car train pulls past miles
of lush banana plantations into the Colombian town of Aracataca
after a 55-mile (89-kilometer) trip inland from the Caribbean
coastal city of Santa Marta. Remote Aracataca is the birthplace
of Nobel Prize-winning author Gabriel Garcia Marquez and was
fictionalized as Macondo in his novel ``One Hundred Years of
Solitude.''
The train, which will start making regular runs in 2008, is
Colombia's latest effort to attract tourists to a country
plagued by more than four decades of drug-funded violence and
kidnappings. Garcia Marquez himself, 80, is aboard for this test
run in June. His boyhood home is being refurbished like that of
the novel's Buendia family and will be opened to the public.
Read more at Bloomberg Exclusive News
of lush banana plantations into the Colombian town of Aracataca
after a 55-mile (89-kilometer) trip inland from the Caribbean
coastal city of Santa Marta. Remote Aracataca is the birthplace
of Nobel Prize-winning author Gabriel Garcia Marquez and was
fictionalized as Macondo in his novel ``One Hundred Years of
Solitude.''
The train, which will start making regular runs in 2008, is
Colombia's latest effort to attract tourists to a country
plagued by more than four decades of drug-funded violence and
kidnappings. Garcia Marquez himself, 80, is aboard for this test
run in June. His boyhood home is being refurbished like that of
the novel's Buendia family and will be opened to the public.
Read more at Bloomberg Exclusive News
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