The Americas and Trans Darien Expedition..........

(All photos in this post by Mr. Amado Arauz)

Trans Darien Gap Expedition -1960 - From Panama to Colombia. In 1957 there were discussions about a research expedition for adjoining the Pan-American Highway. A couple of Land Rovers were custom built and of they went.

They had to drive to goopy mud under the triple-canopy jungle, snakes,vampire bats, boa constrictors, bugs, more dense and endless tropical jungle, river crossings, malaria, humidity, log bridges, difficult mechanical, logistical and topographical problems were a present part throughout the expedition. Leadership skills are essential in any successful expedition, think Sir Ernest Shackleton and our days Sir Ranulph Fiennes. The leadership skills were there and 4 moths and 20 days later they finished. AP McGee "Sons of Savages" you would have loved this Expedition.

Matto Grosso, the Brazilian jungles and the disapperance of Colonel Fawcett in 1925

Explorer (for the Royal Geographic Society), Archaeologist, a strange disappearance of him and his expedition in 1925 has always been of an interest to me. After studying historical and legends about The Lost City/World - he truly belived he had mapped the location of the lost ancient city in the jungles of the Central Brazilian Plateau. As his disapperance has been a mystery and explorers still are looking for an El Dorado the Lost World of Fawcwett keep fascinate us. Fawcett had been sending reports to the Viceroy at Bahia from the Paraguassu River. That was when the last was heard from the expedition.Expeditions in this area had been conducted by the Portuguese in 1743 but it is said that the legend began in 1622. The city had been described in detail. Fawcett was a man of action, he had been exploring Brazilian-Bolivian Frontier 1906 - 1909 and had led before the Brazilian expedition seven expeditions.

Occasionally the interest of Colonel Fawcett reappears but is it Fawcett we are interested in or is it the Lost World and perhaps the El Dorado???