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This was it: two more countries, several more thousand miles and a few more buses. We were heading for New York and we wanted to go as fast as terrestrial travel would allow. After leaving the Guate Boys behind, we spent one more night in Guatemala, in a small town called Matamorros (literally translated, Moor Killer), close to the Mexican border. Early the next morning Central America was over ...

The reunion with the Guate Boys, friends we had made in San Pedro La Laguna so many months ago, was fantastic. As is so often the case when travelling, we feared that we may have never seen them again. Here we were however, 9 months and many thousands of miles later, back in Guatemala, the country where Alex and I had met, and begun our travels together, amongst old friends. At first Alex and I ...

One night in Panama City and we were ready to continue North. For those who can afford it, there is a service, Tica Bus, that ferries passengers across Central America. The buses stop in all of the capital cities of this region of Latin America. We were told that we could go from Panama City to Guatemala City in two days. We would have to change bus only twice: once in San Jose, Costa Rica and onc...

The Darien Gap consists of a stretch of Jungle that joins Colombia and Panama along the Isthmus of Panama. Famed throughout the Americas as one of the most dangerous areas of this volatile region, it is home to FARC para-militaries, drug runners transporting cocaine north and remote Kuna tribes. Crossing the Darien is rumoured to be fraught with dangers. Guide books advise strongly against it, rec...

Moving quickly now. Less than a week after Ecuador and we were are in Medellin, Colombia´s second city, famed in Gabriel Garcia Marques´s book One Hundred Years of Solitude. We had arrived in time for Easter (Semana Santa in Spanish). We managed to take in Maundy Thursday in the Small Coffee growing town of El Retrio and Good Friday in Medellin...