I got up at 5am to be ready for our jeep ride to El Porvenir from Panama City at 5:30. We left the hostel all well and good at just before 6am. We took a 2.5 hour jeep ride across fairly ropey roads to El Porvenir. the jeep was needed towards the end when the road disappeared into a river aout 3ft deep! we arrived at a muddy dock and then got ona wooden boat which would take us to our sailing boat, The Gypsy Moth. We got soaked by the water and rained on and hu...

Ok so a four week block coming in this blog baring in mind that its now a good few weeks since so memory is hazy! So I was in Puerto Viejo in Costa Rica and I decided to go into Panama 4th nov and head straight to Bocas. I took the local bus to Sixaola the border and there got stamped and walked across approx 800km bridge over a muddy river on old train sleepers into panama where a little hole in a window was immigration. Luckily there were other tourists there ...