A Man, a Plan, a Canal: Panama!

Sunday 2 May
Cusco – Lima, Peru – Panama City, Panama – Cali, Colombia

We arrived in Lima at about 4.30. I caught a taxi to the airport, found a cafe and had a bite to eat and a cup of tea to revive myself slightly. I then decided to see if I could check in to get rid of my large bag at least. It turned out that there was actually an earlier flight leaving in just over an hour that I could get on, rather than having to spend most of the day in Lima airport and arriving in Cali late at night. Sounded like a plan to me!

I boarded the flight, and they were playing the film Invictus which I wanted to watch, so I saw that. For some reason, they didn’t mention that they poisoned the All Blacks in the final and they changed François Pienaar’s character from gregarious to introverted – but apart from that, it was a good and factually accurate film. I slept afterwards and woke up just as we landed in Panama.

So here I was, unexpectedly in Central America, for just over an hour. All I saw was the inside of the airport, which wasn’t particularly exciting. It seemed a bit tacky and over commercialised. So it was probably a good thing I wasn’t there for long.

I flew to Cali and took a while to find a cash machine, before taking a taxi to the hostel. I had a shower and then fell asleep, catching up on the sleep lost to crying infants. I woke up in the afternoon and hung out with the people in the hostel, which was putting on a barbeque. I had a drink and a chat and then went to sleep again.