Enroute they spot an American tourist, Horatio Werner, riding fast into the forest, and follow him.
The robbers made off with the minivan the tourists were riding in, more than $1,200 and about $2,000 worth of gold jewelry they had recently bought.
It was a lucrative attraction, as tourists rode its elevator for a panoramic overview of the grounds where 53,000 Americans killed each other within three days in July 1863.
He led the way through the square, past small horse-drawn carriages in which tourists rode.
Someday, he hopes, a four-wheeled Segway will replace the cycles that tourists ride - and sometimes crash - on Bermuda's tortuous roads.
A million tourists a year ride the plastic-sheathed exterior escalators simply for the view of Paris.
The City Department of Transportation estimates that up to 1.5 million tourists ride the Staten Island Ferry each year.
Long Beach is only one of eight places in the Western United States where tourists may ride in a gondola.
On weekends, tourists can ride the historic and scenic line through Bucks County.
The tourists, who were Israeli Arabs, were riding a chartered bus as part of a convoy of eight buses carrying Arab tourists.