One of my best friends and old roommate tried to walk this from Panama to Columbia in his "party shirt" (dress shirt covered in puke and blood). Gave up after 3 days because he couldn't cross certain streams/rivers, where the map he had said there would be bridges and the water was too high. Paid a guy going past in a boat to take him to Columbia. They had to stop 6 hours in a long the way in some town in the middle of the jungle were he got picked up by Panama military.
They questioned him for hours (they don't want dumb white kids in there) and then brought him back out the Panama side, revoked his visa, and told him to get out of the country. It is also a cool place for FARC and major cocaine traffickers to do business.
My favourite part of the story was they went through his backpack and were really concerned he was traveling with a girl or someone else because it had luchador masks from Mexico and tight pink underwear my girlfriend who worked at American Apparel gave him, but not much else.
He said being in the jungle there was pretty frustrating and terrible. Like everything moved, and it was sweaty and hot, and you couldn't get a break from it and just cool down. Also Howler Monkeys!
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One of my best friends and old roommate tried to walk this from Panama to Columbia in his "party shirt" (dress shirt covered in puke and blood). Gave up after 3 days because he couldn't cross certain streams/rivers, where the map he had said there would be bridges and the water was too high. Paid a guy going past in a boat to take him to Columbia. They had to stop 6 hours in a long the way in some town in the middle of the jungle were he got picked up by Panama military.
They questioned him for hours (they don't want dumb white kids in there) and then brought him back out the Panama side, revoked his visa, and told him to get out of the country. It is also a cool place for FARC and major cocaine traffickers to do business.
My favourite part of the story was they went through his backpack and were really concerned he was traveling with a girl or someone else because it had luchador masks from Mexico and tight pink underwear my girlfriend who worked at American Apparel gave him, but not much else.
He said being in the jungle there was pretty frustrating and terrible. Like everything moved, and it was sweaty and hot, and you couldn't get a break from it and just cool down. Also Howler Monkeys!
ColOmbia
get out of my head!