Panamerican

Welcome to the crazy adventures of Jessica and Tristan! An epic trek across South and Central America from Buenos Aires to Mexico City via: Chile, Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, Panama, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras, Guatemala and Belize.

Arrived 8pm. Booked adve nture tou r for the next day. Meal and bed. No alcohol tonight! Another early start awaits ...

Hello from Santiago, The last week has been pretty uneventful I must admit. I left Pucon on Sunday and Markus and I splited as Markus had to go back to Bariloche. I then decided to push hard and bike althe way to Santiago. 800km in total. It was very ...

... us the opportunity for a separate tour in the afternoon to visit the Maria Reiche Museum, the metal mirador next to the Panamerican highway and the natural hilltop lookout – we obviously jumped at the chance.  But first for the ...

... told you I'd have to kill you!  Just thoughts at the moment. We finally got closer to Talara and turned off the Panamerican but we couldn't see the town, although dave commented on the plastic bag bushes that seemed to be flowering all around ...

... Ecuador was hard but we made it through. Other than a detour to avoid Quito (the capital) we rode the entire Panamerican highway through the highlands, battling cold temperatures and oxygen deprivation.  A ton of elevation gain and drop, which makes ...

... the Peruvian roads than in any other road on earth. What kind of mind doesn’t get that if you bring the panamerican highway to complete gridlock it’s not going to matter if you gained 200 yds in the queue? When the police finally started ...

... to have gone the other way and nobody seemed to want to stop. There was also unusually little traffic, this being the Panamerican highway. We also had competition - two Chilean backpackers were also hitching a ride. But fortunately for us, they decided ...

... , the salsa capital of the universe ready for a Saturday night out. And it started out so well! Jumping back on the PanAmerican Highway it is another session of fun twisty roads through incredibly lush valleys and mountains. All good, all smiles. Then a ...

... during the day with clear, cool nights.  After several kms on a bit of a dirt road we found ourselves on the old Panamerican Highway with a good surface and plenty of belching buses.  Our guide book warns that this road is dangerous as it has no ...

... was being devoted to producing an ecologically sound line of wine.   The next day we started on down the road - the PanAmerican Highway # 5 - towards the south of Chile. It's like getting on InterState 80 only more so. It runs from the north of ...

... leg of the trip did not really go as smooth as we wanted, as we got shot at (5 times) at km198 along the Panamerican highway, just north of the city of Barranca. Fortunately for us, we escaped unhurt from this traumatizing experience.  Day 164 ...

... (2 quid), for the 2 hour journey. Slightly more expensive than the bus but also quicker. The route north on the panamerican highway crossed through the Nazca lines. It was true, at ground level there was no indication that the surrounding desert ...

... to the area! The plane continued to fly over the dog, condor, spider and hummingbird before taking a big loop over the Panamerican Highway. By this stage, while still enjoying it I did start to clutch the sick bag that was provided in the pocket in ...

... directions and end-up inside the local University’s campus. 1.30pm: After a long struggle we finally get back on the Panamerican Highway outside of Guatemala City. Now we just need to follow the road until it reaches the border. 4.00pm: A ...

... niet erg populair. Aangezien het lastig is om met onze bagage door de chaos heen te lopen worden we per auto afgezet langs de Panamerican. Hier wachten we op de bus naar Cuenca die al vrij snel komt. De rit is wederom prachtig en voert ons opnieuw door ...