We are in Bocas Del Toro, Panama. Finally broke down to pay for some internet here. It is $2 an hour. So expensive. We made it here yesterday around 4pm. Time changed when we came to Panama and now we are in the same time zone. We met a girl from Sacramento and her name is Elyse and she is traveling alone. We all got a room together yesterday and it was a dump. So bad!!!! We spent last evening checking around other places for so we could move elsewhere today. We found a place and moved there. I guess it [View Full Entry]

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Central America After spending 10 months in South America, we had left ourselves only two months for the final part of our trip, through Central America, from Panama to Mexico City. This is clearly very little time to see 8 different countries, and an area with so many sights, meaning we will have to be very selective. No more days lazing around in hammocks. Well, not so many, perhaps! Our first view of Panama - and of Central America - was from the window seat of the twin propeller Aires plane on the flight from Cartagena to Panama City. Panama City [View Full Entry]

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Panama City and the Canal And so after 10 months of travelling we left South America and headed up to Central America. We took a flight from Cartagena to Panama City and - apart from big security checks on the Colombian side - it all went very smoothly and we were in our Panama hotel by lunchtime ready for some exploring. We spent the afternoon discovering Panama's historic old town which until a few years ago was mostly off-limits to tourists. It had apparently become very rundown and was not a safe place to wander. But lots of regeneration has taken [View Full Entry]

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The time has come for another entry, we feel... So we bussed to lovely little Copacabana, a little hippy town on the sea-esque Lake Titikaka. We´d heard it was rather good, you see. Copacabana holds a lot of the general Bolivian charms - bowler-hatted women, drunken drum/pipe playing into the wee hours in candlelit plazas, cocoa leaf chewing, lots of altitude, and everything cheap as chips. It´s where some travellers come to and never leave, realising that their purpose in life is to sit on the street making strange looking jewellery out of feathers and sell thier wares to tourists. But [View Full Entry]

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sorry for such brief expanations.... but enjoy the photos. [View Full Entry]

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Segeltoern nach Panama Ja, ein kleiner Segeltoern fehlte eigentlich noch auf unserer Reise - und da wir eigentlich nichts auslassen wollten, kam uns das natuerlich sehr entgegen - eine viertaegige Segeltour von Cartagena (Kolumbien) nach San Blas (Panama)... so haben wir uns dann auch noch den relativ teuren Flug zwischen den Kontinenten gespart. Auf der Suche nach einem passenden Boot - man segelt immerhin 2 Tage ueber das offene Meer - haben wir dann mit unserem spanischen Kapitaen Felipe und seinem Segelboot Renegade das passende Duo gefunden. Etwas serioeser als die anderen Halodries, die diese Reise anbieten und auch das Boot [View Full Entry]

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Hey everyone! Still on the caribbean islands off panama, we're addicted to this place and cant seem to leave! It may be due to the fact you can get a round of drinks here for $3!!!! We even have a little family of lizards in our hotel room now that come see us every night! Yesturday we went on a crazy adventure into a cave with bats a crocodiles!! we heard rumours about this cave that was discovered on isla bastimentos recently; non of the trip companies will take you there (too dangerous maybe) but we got chatting to this cool [View Full Entry]

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Tis hier nu half drie snachts in hartje Lima, Peru, en we hebben er net twee turbulente vluchten en een dodemansricht met een dronken, doch erg grappige, taxichauffeur opzitten. Aangezien we nog een uur moeten wachten tot onze kamer vrij is (lang verhaal) zet ik -voor de geinteresseerden (lees: onze moeders)- nu maar even een baal foto's van onze tien geweldige dagen bij ons Mexicaanse gezinnetje op internet. Een groot deel zijn foto´s genomen in Africam, de Mexicaanse uitvoering van de Beekse Bergen , maar dan 100x zo dope! [View Full Entry]

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Hello from Panama City. We arrived late last night with no problems. Today we enjoyed the city starting with the Amador Causeway at the Pacific entrance to the canal. It was absolutely gorgeous. We walked around the city and visited the Miraflores Locks in the afternoon. The huge cargo ships pass between the Atlantic and Pacific in approx. 8 hours with a 2 foot clearance on both sides inside the locks. It is simply genius, it saves the ships two weeks time if they had to pass around Cape Horn. The old architecture is beautiful, but some of it is in [View Full Entry]

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We quickly made our way from Costa Rica to Panama. Sorry for the lack of writting, internet access has been few and far between (and expensive). After leaving Nicaragua, we traveled to Tortuguero, Costa Rica which is an island where you are supposed to be able to see turtles and was supposed to be the best jungle in Central America. Well, I guess we just hit it the wronge time of the year because we did not have the same luck as that described by the Lonely Planet. The tours were expensive and the only real way to explore this river [View Full Entry]

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