We went back to Cartagena, and it was just during the week of the film festival of the city, an important event. We went to see a movie outdoors. We stayed 4 days there before embarking on a 4 day cruise to cross the border of Panama by sea, through the paradise islands of San Blas, with a dozen other travelers of different nationalities.
On the first day, the sea was rough and for the first time we got really seasick, for more than 24 hours… Awful. When the boat finally stopped and thrown its anchors in the waters of the Caribbean in the middle of small islands full of coconut palms, white sand and turquoise waters… the seasickness has been almost forgotten. Aaah… Paradise!

Almost all the islands are inhabited by the indigenous from the Kuna Yala tribes. They own the islands, everything is controlled by themselves.

One evening we were had delicious lobsters for dinner just fished then a campfire on an island, accompanied by Alexis on the guitar, the evening ended partying on the boat.

Another night we had fish barbecue, hmmm … Unfortunately the weather was not so good during the cruise, so we were happy to arrive on land.
We spent the first day doing nothing in Panama City. Panama City is a modern capital, the country is very Americanized, with its many skyscrapers, these big cars, lots of fast foods and the American dollar, we felt like landing in the United States.

We visited the Panama Canal. It is a canal that crosses the Panama connecting the Pacific Ocean and the Atlantic Ocean, one of the most craziest engineering projects ever undertaken. It is 77km long and more than 27,500 workers died during its construction at the beginning of the last century. Each year it is used by more than 14,000 ships.

We of course visited the city, the old town Casco Viejo that today seems abandoned, but we can still see some interesting old colonial buildings.