The Panamericana. Panama was the last Central American country on my route to South America. Together with François – a cycle traveller I had met a few days earlier in Costa Rica – we entered the country without any problems at the Paso Canoas border crossing. The new stamp in our passports authorised us to…
Expensive and bursting with Western culture – that was my image of the small country between Nicaragua and Panama. A country that is best travelled through quickly as a budget traveller on a bike. Of course, I hadn’t done any research, these ‘facts’ were just what I had picked up from other cycle travellers.
After a week in La Paz, I heaved the loaded bike up the stairs to the cable car gondolas. This little sweat-inducing effort was certainly better than the tedious, even more sweat-inducing climb up through the heavy traffic of the Bolivian city, back to the Altiplano plateau …
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