Places Visited. Utila and Roatan After Tela we headed to the bay Islands, famous for its cheap diving. There are two main islands to choose from Utila the backpacker’s favorite and Roatan the more up market American tourist destination. We decided to do both. First was Utila as we wanted to be some where lively for New Year after our quiet Christmas. Most of the places on the island are geared up for diving so they offer cheap accommodation if you dive with them. We choose cross creek diving as they looked professional and the room was only $8 including air con so a real bargain! The air con was very much needed as it was very hot. Due to the cheap dives we decided to do our Advance diving certificate for $230 for the course ... read more

Places Visited. San Salvador, Guatemala City, Lake Atitlan, Xela Once again we took the easy way out and got the direct first class bus. We could get used to this easy traveling! Once we got to Guatemala City we got a chicken bus back to Lake Atitlan as I wanted to go back as I loved it so much the first time! Like I have mentioned before there is something about lakes and especially this one. Just amazing and to top it off the cheapest place we have stayed on our trip. I could live here it’s so perfect. We decided this time to also dive the lake as it is not often you get to dive at altitude 1562 m and it was something else to cross off the I have done list! The dive ... read more

Suchitoto to Perquin Perquin is near the Honduran border in the North East, supposedly a cool mountain town, could have fooled me, its been a constant 28ºc whilst we’ve been here! It’s famous for the central point of administration during the civil war in the 70’s and 80s. A lot of fighting went on here, massacres of innocent people by the army. We visited a museum about it, a tiny little place, a local guide shown us around and explained some of the photos and artifacts and he had first hand knowledge as he was a guerilla during the war, He went into details of some of the atrocities and stories of friends and family he lost and said that the war had to happen as they were at a point where the people weren’t being ... read more

Places Visited - Santa Ana. After our relaxing time in Rio Dulce we had another border crossing to cope with to El Salvador. On paper this looked a lot of hassle and mither! We would have to get a total of 4 buses to get to where we wanted to go, Santa Ana a large city in the North of El Salvador. Luckily as we were going for the bus we bumped into the guy who recommended the Tortuga and he told us that there is a direct first class bus. We haggled the price and it worked out double of what we were going to pay for the 4 buses but was worth paying just to avoid the hassle! When I said double the price it still only worked out to be about 7 pound ... read more

We headed ever south after Corker and stayed in another beach place called Placencia, the beach here was gorgeous, the stereotypical Caribbean postcard, swaying palms, blue ocean, golden sands. Doesn’t beat Piccadilly gardens on a sunny day though!! We did nothing but chill out and I got to watch Utd v Chelsea so more than happy apart from the result that is. That was it on our tour of Belize, short and sweet, which it needed to be as very expensive. Enjoyed the place and culture as all very different and the language of Garifuna, which is a mixture of English, Spanish and Swahili. Listening to the locals was just like the lilt adverts so brought a smile to our faces! The food her was also brilliant the standard of rice and beans and some jerk ... read more