If you ever plan to travel between North America and South America, you must consider That there is no road.
I decided to cross the Darien overland, traversing from Panama to Colombia by foot and riverboat..
When they go to South America they fly or perhaps take a boat.
Because the Darien hinders all contact by land between North America and South America, it has earned the name "the Darien Gap." Yet most travelers never encounter the Darien Gap.
Filling this void is a rugged wilderness known as the Darien Rainforest.
On a map the two ends of the highway appear as two slivers of life, separated by the unknown.
But the land between the two countries is a vast and primitive realm.
The highway resurrects in Colombia, another continent.
Ten hours southeast of the Panama Canal, the Pan-American Highway penetrates the jungle, shrivels into a footpath and dies.
If you ever plan to travel between North America and South America, you must consider That there is no road