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I drove the length of the Pan-American, and shipped my Jeep around in a shipping container. Even back in 2008 when I did it, I met a few backpackers that had c
by grecy 3y ago
I drove the length of the Pan-American, and shipped my Jeep around in a shipping container.
Even back in 2008 when I did it, I met a few backpackers that had crossed the Darien on foot. You take a bus and then hitchhike as far south as you possibly can. Talk to locals, figure something out. Someone will know of a crappy boat or canoe or something to take you a few hours through the swap and then you're on land again. Hitchhike, bus, whatever until you pop out somewhere in Colombia.
- jddj 3y agoI'd heard similar stories as well. We both suspected that he had been unlucky to come across whoever it was. This was 2016 or thereabouts.
- rvba 3y agoEntering a crapy boat or canoe in a place known to be run by drug smugglers and gangs sound like an easy way to disappear without trace after being robbed and murdered.
- dehrmann 3y ago> Talk to locals, figure something out. That's a very optimistic approach for such a deadly trip.
- grecy 3y ago> That's a very optimistic approach for such a deadly trip Yes, optimism is a requirement for any major undertaking. That is exactly how I spent two years driving 40,000 miles from Alaska to Argentina, and also how I spent three years driving 54,000 miles right around the coastline of Africa.