16th October 2009 - 19th October 2009 We arrived in Cartagena and the annoying German captain made us wait around for two hours in the sun before he got off his boat to get us our passports. When he finally did go down and get them we followed and found him having a beer at the bar with a friend. For that we wrote "Don't go" on his fliers we found in the hostel. He he. Cory and Ryan from the boat trip stayed at Casa Viena with us in the room next door...

19th October 2009 - 21st October 2009 A lot of people had suggested to us that Medellin was a great place to visit. We still can't work out why. We thought it was okay but there wasn't really a whole lot to do. After arriving and catching the public train (which was pretty great) to our hostel we decided to head into the city to look around. There wasn't a whole lot to see or do so we decided to find a cinema to watch a movie. On our way there a guy walked past ...

9th October 2009 - 11th October 2009 We left Panama City and headed for Puerto Lindo as we were booked on a sailing trip with our friends Carlo and Toni to head down to Colombia. The bus trip from Panama City to Colon was great but when we found out we had to wait at the dodgiest bus station yet we weren't too impressed. It took two hours for our chicken bus to leave and another two hours on the packed and hot bus to get to the infamous Hostal Wunderbar which ra...

6th October 2009 - 9th October 2009 We took a night bus to Panama City and it took us much of the way across the country in one night. We arrived to Luna's Castle Hostel very early and crashed in a hammock till the staff woke up. We then took huge advantage of the free pancake mix and kitchen.Panama is made up of an old and new city and we were staying in the old city which we found to be a beautiful area of old buildings, many half collapsed but it only adds to...

3rd October 2009 - 6th October 2009 We crossed the border into Panama with little complaint and a little mucking around of official stamps in the immigration office. You'll have to see the photo of Sammy with a stamp on his head. It was pretty funny. To get to the islands of Bocas you have to catch a boat across. The boats have to run about 30 minutes to get to the islands and they seem to treat it like a race and the lead between us and the other boat changed ...