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Kidnapped on an orchid hunt
How two young Englishmen were seized by Colombian rebels while searching for orchids in the lawless Darien Gap region
In March 2000, two young English travellers, Tom Hart-Dyke and Paul Winder, were kidnapped by Colombian guerrillas while attempting to cross the notoriously dangerous Darien Gap region on the border with Panama. Hart-Dyke is a gardener who was on a mission to collect orchids, and he survived a nine-month ordeal by building a nursery in the cloud forest and planning his own dream garden for the family castle back home in Kent. He talks to Simon Watts.
PHOTO: Tom Hart-Dyke (l) with Paul Winder shortly after their release (Press Association)
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