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"I drove the entire pan American highway from Alaska to Argentina ..."

How did you cross that part of Colombia that is impassable and has no road and blah blah blah ?

Genuinely curious as I was dissuaded from a similar trip by the supposed inability to go all the way through Columbia.




I shipped in a shipping container. I documented the whole process here http://theroadchoseme.com/shipping-across-the-darien-gap-pt-...



That ferry isn't currently operating. (If you follow the link, the operator's site has been replaced with a domain squatter site.)

I've read a number of articles about the Darién Gap, and they all indicate that there have been several ferry operators in the past, in some cases for years at a time, but that there's currently no regularly scheduled service. For example, Wikipedia states this several times

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dari%C3%A9n_Gap

Wikivoyage suggests that you can make it by boat if you're willing to fly part of the way, and/or that you can make private arrangements with a shipping company that can transport cars.

https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Darien_Gap

My understanding from these and other articles is that people with enough money can buy access to sea transportation for themselves and/or their cars, but that you can no longer just buy a ticket for any kind of regularly scheduled departure. But this could conceivably change again in the future.




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