My adventure holiday turned into nine months of hell as a FARC hostage
My adventure holiday turned into nine months of hell as a FARC hostage Tom Hart Dyke © Paul Carter Tom Hart Dyke in his Lullingstone Castle garden - Paul Carter A lawless wilderness straddling the border between Colombia and Panama, the Darien Gap is the only break in the 19,000-mile Pan-American Highway which connects Alaska with Argentina. In 2000, horticulturalist Tom Hart Dyke, heir to Kent’s Lullingstone Castle estate, spent nine months there, after being taken hostage by a group presumed to be FARC, the Marxist rebels which disbanded before returning as a politic...
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