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"I drove the entire pan American highway from Alaska to Argentina ..." How did you cross that part of Colombia that is impassable and has no road and blah blah
by rsync 3y ago
"I drove the entire pan American highway from Alaska to Argentina ..."
How did you cross that part of Colombia that is impassable and has no road and blah blah blah ?
Genuinely curious as I was dissuaded from a similar trip by the supposed inability to go all the way through Columbia.
- ojbyrne 3y agoYou take a ferry. https://www.fodors.com/world/mexico-and-central-america/panama/travel-tips/boat-and-ferry-travel-89526520 https://www.fodors.com/world/mexico-and-central-america/pana...
- schoen 3y agoThat ferry isn't currently operating. (If you follow the link, the operator's site has been replaced with a domain squatter site.) I've read a number of articles about the Darién Gap, and they all indicate that there have been several ferry operators in the past, in some cases for years at a time, but that there's currently no regularly scheduled service. For example, Wikipedia states this several times https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dari%C3%A9n_Gap https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dari%C3%A9n_Gap Wikivoyage suggests that you can make it by boat if you're willing to fly part of the way, and/or that you can make private arrangements with a shipping company that can transport cars. https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Darien_Gap https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Darien_Gap My understanding from these and other articles is that people with enough money can buy access to sea transportation for themselves and/or their cars, but that you can no longer just buy a ticket for any kind of regularly scheduled departure. But this could conceivably change again in the future.
- grecy 3y agoI shipped in a shipping container. I documented the whole process here http://theroadchoseme.com/shipping-across-the-darien-gap-pt-1 http://theroadchoseme.com/shipping-across-the-darien-gap-pt-...