 No, it's been run over. I think so This one So we've got a whole load of new stickers To add to our balloon bumblebee we've got Stickers from cargo rider who did our shipping Overland embassy who did our insurance here in Panama and then Our lovely sponsor motorcycle world Who gave us bumblebee in the beginning? They've got a new logo this awesome Circular logo here, so we need to find places for all of this Yes, I would say as well here Because we had a sticker here didn't we but I think it fell off we got stickers from Dunlop But they were all so bad quality that they all of them fell off So now we have no Dunlop stickers anymore Cool. Yeah, that looks good. What about in the center? Looks quite cool. No You know because then it's like a face. It's like a fox face Yeah, that's not bad is it new friends that we met over at the Overland Embassy Perseguindo caminos and these guys were traveling south and crossing the Darien Gap But in the opposite direction with this beast of of a motorhome so they can have pride of place at the front Normally we had our googly eyes here and here, but you know, we even bought some replacement googly eyes But they just keep falling off la vie and Ollie Well Yeah Yes, la vie and Ollie front and center awesome Yes Lucas paranormal Nicos our traveling buddy. There we go Cool cargo rider. Okay. Look at that. We're starting to get some stickers on there That looks good. Yeah, apparently the front camera is not gonna work this morning. So we'll go without it Our front camera is very Temperamental, that's right. It's probably a little bit angry that we didn't film for the past four days It is incredibly hot and humid this morning. Oh my goodness Welcome to Panama, baby. I am sweating buckets. We've only just just begun. I'm sweating swimming pools. Yeah Exactly buckets out enough This is a huge queue of traffic. Yep. She's gonna go. Yep. She's gonna go Good morning world, welcome back to the channel. It's day number 355 on our circumnavigation around the globe by motorcycle We're here in the capital of Panama the crazy massive Panama City And we've been here for the past five days or so doing as much editing as humanly possible Whilst going for some swims in the pool and chilling out in a nice air conditioned room Yeah, we're just totally over now I didn't enjoy it a lot though But it kind of means that we didn't acclimatize to the Panamanian weather But it is currently 30 degrees right now and it's only nine in the morning and it's really humid. So I'm excited. Yeah, let's see how this goes It's gonna be a long time before we see air conditioning again We have a super exciting start to today because of course right next to Panama City is the Panama Canal And that's where we're heading right now Panama City is actually on the south side of the canal And we actually have to cross the Panama Canal to continue making our way north towards Costa Rica So it's about 20 minutes to head over to the Panama Canal now. It's already 9 o'clock. So better hit the road Let's go. Okay, according to the map. We are already next to the canal system. I think it's starting here Yeah, I can see already some Container over there Wow Yeah, so I think this part here is just where The canal is just beginning with the first locks because actually it's crazy that this canal actually goes from sea level and Then through a series of locks actually rises up 27 meters to cross the center of Panama And then it has to go then back through another series of locks to go back down to sea level crazy I think the whole procedure takes 11 hours So I think we're right up against the edge of the canal now You've got the railway on the right of the canal on the left The railway actually came before the canal Because before they built the canal The only way to get goods from the Pacific to the Atlantic was to basically unload it onto trains Train it across the whole of Panama and then load it back onto ships Wow So we're here we've arrived at the Panama canal and a giant boat is just about to pass through It's so unbelievably big this boat. Oh my god. I think it's an oil tanker So we're here at the mirror flores lock, which is basically Where the boats have come in risen up and now they're going to be on our on their way that way Along to the Atlantic Ocean Incredible, and this is actually the second boat because there's another boat like a huge container ship Which passed as well on the other side like I think they have two exodus and entries here. I guess so incredible Incredible look how big it is. Wow. I'm really excited for some reason. I don't know why Because it's absolutely awesome look at that. So at this point the canal is actually 16 meters above sea level So they've actually already risen up this like mega mega mega tonne tanker This has been risen up 16 meters already from the ocean. I can't believe it. It's amazing So the canal is actually 51 miles long 82 kilometers long So it's not as long as the Suez canal and it was actually built after the Suez canal But the difficulty in building this one was much greater than the Suez canal because of course here It's tropical. It's really bad conditions for workers. Actually, they started work in 1881 trying to build this canal apparently 22,000 people died when they tried to construct this It was a French company that started trying to construct this then in 1904 the US bought Basically everything all the excavation equipment. They bought the workers They bought the rights to everything and they overtook the production of the canal And then it still took the US 10 years to build it and the canal was actually opened in 1914 So in the first year that it opened 1914 a thousand ships passed through here But now more than 800,000 ships pass through here every year So it's like incredibly busy and apparently they have to pay like over a million dollars Like entry to get through That's crazy. No, that's so much money. Yeah It's such a complex construction here. Yeah, can you imagine when they were trying to build this this was before they had Computers before they had electricity. It was even before they had like engines They I mean this was like built with steam engines like steam diggers. They didn't have hydraulics. They didn't have electrics They didn't have the combustion engine Wow Photoshoot going on with the bike Okay So cute this guy's from Ecuador. I love it Goodbye Panama canal. Bye. Bye. Actually, we're gonna cross it in just a minute on that bridge Okay, we say goodbye then here we go. We're about to go over the bridge that passes over the canal Magical Wow, it's such a high bridge as well It's got to be high enough that all the container ships and oil tankers and cruise ships and everything can pass underneath Wow Well, there it is Riding over the Panama canal. Can you believe it? I actually can't Look at that Wow Cool, it's so cool really. Yeah, it's like one of those landmarks that you can't actually imagine ever being Next to yeah, I remember that we were in school talking about the Panama canal and now we are riding over it It's crazy. No amazing Here we made it so there we go now. We've just got the short ride up to the US exactly I Really thought that we were finished with the rain After we had been through the rainy season in Bolivia in Peru in Ecuador Which was the craziest and I looked at Panama and Central America and it was like it shouldn't be the rainy season It should be absolutely fine beautiful sunshine all the time, but this is what we've got Seriously Panama you better step up. Oh, we've got a fire right next to the road. Oh, wow, that's hot here Wow, that's hot. Wow And here as well. Whoa, look at this couple. Yeah. Yeah. Wow. That's really dangerous Yeah, I'm not sure if that's like a controlled thing. I don't think so. I mean that was like right next to the road Was wasn't it crazy? Yeah, because as you guys can see The rain has stopped and the temperature is back up to 32 degrees Actually, it's looking really really sunny now, so Back to sweating a bucket So we came inside this petrol station shop to hide from the heat and get some air-conditioning and We were too tempted. We were a little bit naughty and we got some pizza and Some burger that we cut in half to share Yes, so what we always do is actually getting two different meals vegetarian meals and then we do half-half We couldn't resist Cheers And Lisa's no longer raining, but we're still just as wet because we're sweating so much But it's actually so funny because they served us the burger with four Four of these like potato corners or however you call them and it's like we were like four chips that can't be enough but then We looked on the on the picture and in the picture there is exactly four chips So they take that very seriously. They're like every order gets four chips. No more. No less What a nice lunch This chain is called Va and then Oh no back out into the humidity Jesus well, don't you think bumblebee looks really cool now with like some stickers over the front It's pretty cool. No Few more. Yeah, it looks good though. Oh, but will be so clean as well So we're out into the Panamanian countryside now. We've got some small mountains coming up over there It's actually a lot drier than I expected I was kind of thinking that it was going to be like tropical rainforest straight out of Panama City Yeah, I didn't expect it as well. It's super dry. I think it's like as well at the end of the Dry season so everything is super dry. You never know until you go. Hey, but anyway, it's a pretty chill ride So I think it's a good opportunity to tell you guys a little bit about country number 13 I think on our journey around the world Panama So just like most of the other countries that we've been to so far in South America Panama has been home to people for like 10,000 years Since basically the first human migrations came down across the Bering Strait and down into the Americas the two major tribes that were inhabiting this region when the Spanish arrived were the Cuevas and the Cochlear tribes and apparently it was an incredibly populated place Estimates range from anywhere between 200,000 and 2 million people living here when the Spanish arrived But of course just like most places in South and Central America the local populations were decimated After Spanish penalization and apparently there's hardly any indigenous people left the current population of Panama is 4.3 million nearly half of them live in the capital Panama City So earlier today we saw Panama is gold mine the Panama Canal because of this canal Contributing so much to the country's GDP the country is actually ranked 57th in the world in GDP per capita So it's actually a pretty wealthy country compared to other countries in Central America So Panama finally got independence from Spain in 1821 as part of Gran Colombia they actually remained part of Colombia for quite a long time after that They didn't get independence as a sovereign nation until 1903 and that is about as much information as I can remember right now and we are doing pretty well today We've traveled 116 miles so far with 171 miles to reach a town called David or David So anyway, we're just gonna cruise along Sweating buckets as usual Oh Okay, so you guys might wonder why we're going backwards up a highway Well, the rear camera just fell off the bike Literally we just adjusted it a couple of minutes ago and then Lavi just looked behind her and just said oh my god It's gone. Yeah so now We are edging our way on the hard shoulder To see if we can spot it because man, there's a pretty expensive camera So really really don't want to lose it Man, where is it? How far do you think we went? I don't know since we adjusted it Probably like a few miles at least now if it came off on the corner here It would have flown down down this side, but I'll check. Oh, what's that there? No, it's not this one No, no, I'll check on this side. You check on the bank. Okay No, I haven't seen it yet. Hold on Holy crap stick. Oh What's that keep seeing black things, but it's not it. I Just don't know how far we have to go back Found it We have found it. Oh Ah It's been run over It's been totally totally It's working I don't know if it's working or not, but I can hear the normal beeping procedure. Maybe we can use it just like that Wait, listen No, okay, that didn't work. All right Okay, so it's like good news and bad news at the same time Hey, they are more bad than good news, but I mean we found it at least which means whatever data is on there You can at least get this and get the footage from today But then the question is just whether or not we're gonna be able to ever film with it again. Yeah, oh man Okay, so we've just been pulled over or stopped by this police guy on a motorbike So I'm just gonna find out What it is he wants He asked for my passport and driver's license So, let's see Passports see, okay Okay, I think so How how do you oh He has a gun like a speed gun. Oh I thought that the speed limit on the highway in Panama was 100 kilometers per hour Okay, I'm sorry. I didn't see a sign Okay Where must we go to pay the ticket? We have to pay the ticket Station or No, no, David David David David Costa Rica Yeah, oh David Yes, sleep in David. See This one, you know say my driver's license and then he saw that I was recording. It's like the worst thing that happened Because he was about to ask for money. That's why. Yeah, yeah He did the same as the guy in Bali. He was like ticket to get it and then afterwards like Actually, I can cancel your ticket right now for 10 bucks. Okay, so that ended pretty well in the end I was a little bit worried there for a minute after I said we didn't have cash He just shook my hand and said No problem, you know, no problem. Let's go your way cruise control 50 from now on because I don't want to get in trouble That fella He's going faster 22999.9 we just hit 23,000 miles on the road so far Where am I? So we're finally arriving in the town of David And we're finally turning off of this highway the pan american We've been following for the whole day. We have done 284 miles today a lot of miles Some kind of day That's a big mango tree Wow, I can't imagine how many mangoes they can get from that one tree I think this is it hostile Okay, let's check it out Maybe just park here We made it happy and alive Just in time for the sunset because now it's pretty much dark and this isn't really busy hostile I mean when we arrived there was like Tons of people around it was the cheapest room in town 17 pounds not too bad But yeah, it's a room on its own without a bathroom without a shower But we did amazingly well today and we really made our way across like most of Panama. Thank you Yes So it was a really successful day Our mission was to see the canal and then head as far as we could towards the border to Costa Rica And we made it really far. We are only one hour from the border to Costa Rica So basically that's going to be our mission first thing tomorrow and that's it from us today We hope you enjoyed the video if so, please give us a thumbs up Subscribe to the channel share the video with your friends and family comment below and we will see you next time