You cant cross the Panama - colombia border very easily over land, and rather than fly we decided to glam it up and take a yacht from Panama to Cartagena in Colombia, rossing through the Carribean sea and stopping off at the San Blas Islands on the way. The San Blas Islands are an autonomous archipeligo of islands populated by the indigenous Kuna people. No-one else can buy land or live here, so they are completely protected and undeveloped. there are about 300 ...

Panama City is a smelly, busy, glitzy and fascinating place. Cars play a constant game of chicken as they weave and barge their way through the maze of roads winding betwenn the rows upon rows of skyscrapers. Cars beep, lights flash on some skycrapers while others remain mysteriously deserted. They say that many of the blocks here are built with drug money and don´t really have people living in them. A night out in a bar in the gringo district will typical...