Showing posts with label Caribbean. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Caribbean. Show all posts

Monday, 26 January 2015

The 'ultimate' guide to getting a sail-boat from Cartagena to Panama

Sunset on the boat
Overview
On a map it looks like it would be relatively straightforward to get from Colombia to Panama. The two are linked by land and so you’d think that there must be regular transport between the two.  But you’d be wrong! The DariĆ©n Gap is an area of dense jungle and swampland of 160 kilometres in length that links the two countries together and there is no road that goes through it.