Travel blog by a global nomad
In 1513, Vasco Nuñez de Balboa and a small group of men hacked their way through the jungle of what we now know as Panama and found a new ocean. Balboa called it Mar del Sur but we now know it as the Pacific Ocean. They set sail in search of riches and sailed into [...]
It was late afternoon now and everyone was there, sitting in a semi-circle and staring at a cluster of girls in the centre of the circle and tables of native arts arranged beyond.
There were about 20 young girls wearing colourful printed sarong skirts, beaded necklaces and henna tattoo’s – and little else! They milled around, [...]
We have heard a lot on this trip about the Panamerica Highway, connecting Alaska to Tierra del Fuego on this trip, but there are two places where it breaks down – the Chilean fjords in the south and the Darien Gap in Panama… We were in Darien today, a jungle-infested chunk of land isolating Columbia [...]
In the afternoon a brief ceremony for King Neptune to grant as (delayed) permission to cross the equator occurred. We had actually sedately sailed across it shortly after sunset yesterday.
Being staff, I had to dress up as a mermaid – a garish one – and accomplished that by twisting foil around strands of hair and [...]
After the walk on Isla de la Plata, it was time to do some snorkelling before the ship set sail. Since the majority of pax were in this group and the birding duo hadn’t returned, we were all bundled into the tour boat, taken 5 minutes away and told to jump over, being handed a face [...]
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