We began the day with a motor malfunction for the second time resulting in the now familiar exclamations from Fritz – “Scheisse!”, “Fuck!”. After this was corrected we headed into the open sea without the benefit of any reefs or islands to dampen the waves. Ben turned white then green and finally succumbed by vomiting [...]
Attacked at 6am by a swarm of flying ants that climbed in my ears and hair, I was the first one awake on the boat. An hour later breakfast commenced with a discussion on the why there were so many gay men and transgendered people on the Kuna Islands. The American’s comments centred around their [...]
We stopped at two Kuna islands – the autonomous indigenous, mainly island-dwelling people of the south-west of Panama. They were having a fiesta of sorts on the first island. All of them totally drunk inside the dark palapa hut – maybe 100 people. The woman traditionally dressed swilling rum out of large bottles and crying [...]
We drove into Panama at night quite exhausted from ~500kms of driving from Uvita, Costa Rica and checked into a $55 hotel in a newer fancier neighbourhood. I was told by the skipper of the boat (Fritz of the boat Fritz-the-Cat) to go to a hostel to follow an 4×4 truck down the Pan-American highway [...]
General Information: The Darién Gap: an undeveloped stretch of mountainous, swampy, jungle with no road that connects southern Panama to north-western Columbia. The area is sparsely inhabited by indigenous tribes, smugglers, and bandits. The reasons for there being no road seem to be either that it’s not possible given the rough nature of the region [...]
Although I was half and hour late I successfully picked up Kai at the San Jose airport and we had (overpriced) breakfast in Alajuela (town near the airport) before heading for our planned hike in the Baurilio Carillo National Park. We were disappointed with all the traffic driving through the park but eventually went down [...]
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