After spending an uneventful night in La Ceiba, we made our way to the dock to catch the boat to Utila, one of Honduras' Bay Islands. Not knowing the departure times, we were forced to wait 4 hours for the boat. Little did we know, due to a hurricane, this would be the last boat to Utila for over a week. We were fortunate! The smallest of the Bay Islands, Utila is one of the most popular places in the world to learn how to scuba dive. There is only one town and at least 12 dive shops, making it one [View Full Entry]

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The following passage outlines how we got from Guatemala to Honduras: Having spent a great few days in Semuc Champey we hopped on a bus to a little town called El Rancho. From here we went on to a little junction town called La Ruidosa. We were immediately met by an American guy who arrived at the junction 4 months prior and hadn't left since. He also hadn't spoken any English since he got there so he took full advantage of the opportunity we presented and proceeded to chew the ears off us until we got our next bus. Incidentally he [View Full Entry]

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After taking the advice of other travellers we decided to head to a place called Lanquin. It is a small village outside of Coban. From Antigua we got a shuttle bus to Lanquin. It was little more than a Hiace van and is supposed to hold up to 14 people. At one stage there were 20 of us crammed into the back. It is a funny set up. The driver has a conductor sort of friend who shouts out to people on the side of the road where we are going. These people then thumb a lift if they are interested [View Full Entry]

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We both agree that this was one of the coolest things we´ve done so far Volcan Pacaya is the nearest active volcano to Antigua sitting at around 2,500 metres above sea level...we hiked it After many days of putting it off to adverse weather conditions and sore knees we eventually bit the bullet and decided to go up regardless of the weather. We set off on a 14-seater mini-bus at about 2.30pm on Friday and an hour and a half of crazy winding roads and a number of near death experiences we arrived at the entrance. It was here that the [View Full Entry]

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After spending a few days on a few buses we finally managed to get to Antigua, Guatemala from Cancun after our spell in Cuba. Was it worth is? Definitely! Antigua was fantastic! Surrounded on all sides by volcanoes, mountains and other such wondrous amazingments, it is such a picturesque town and having spent 2 weeks there we feel that we really got the most out of it. When we arrived we spent the morning living in the Central Square because our accommodation wasn´t ready yet. The plan was to spend the 2 weeks studying Spanish and living with a host family [View Full Entry]

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Hello to all and to all a good night! We arrived into Mexico City after an 11 hour flight from Heathrow on Monday 15th September. After a horribly long wait in immigration and the taxi rank we eventually made it to our hostel. It was dark, we were tired and with it being our first time there we were both a little anxious about it all. Some more than others! It all worked out fine though. That night we met a yank and an Ozzie lad and they showed us around some of the area which apparently was rather well to [View Full Entry]

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