Gaillard´s Cut

March 21st 2009
We stepped on board the Princess Queen at 7am just outside Panama City - to our surprise a kind of Latin Manhattan with tall skyscrapers lining the coast. Our boat made its way past a flotilla of massive containers ships and oil tankers waiting their turn to enter the Canal. With the Pacific Ocean behind us and a Panama Canal Company captain on board (every ship has to have an official Company ... read more

Central America Caribbean » Panama » Panamá » Panama Canal

With US backing, Panama seceded from Colombia in 1903 and promptly signed a treaty with the US allowing for the construction of a canal and US sovereignty over a strip of land on either side of the structure (the Panama Canal Zone). The Panama Canal ... ... read more

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Jess and James

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Setting off with one way tickets to Mexico via Cuba (a two-month detour), we set ourselves the challenge of travelling through Central and South America down to the southern tip of Argentina by bus/train/boat. We wrote and photographed all our adventures, discoveries and passions - food and football, people and pictures, wildlife and walking, books and buildings, mountains and music. We promise you won't read a boring day-to-day diary, just interesting tales from the road. Plus for our friends with itchy feet, real backpacking tips direct from the backpack. Hasta luego! Jess and Jam... full info

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