http://www.travelblog.org/Bloggers/contreras_alejandro/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from contreras_alejandro en-us Tue, 14 Oct 2008 05:06:13 BST Tue, 14 Oct 2008 05:06:13 BST NOTE this is the first entry of a new set of entries related to a multicountry trip from March to May of 2008. HondurasMy main goal was to visit Roatn the Hondurean Caribbean island. I knew though that just taking a plane from San Salvador to Roatn would be too easy too little adventurous. So I decided to drive. Actually my first thought was ldquonottoflyrdquo. The plan was to drive http://www.travelblog.org//Central-America-Caribbean/Honduras/Copan/blog-275262.html First of all I am no volcanologist. So bear with me because I might use the wrong technical words for what I saw...The Pacaya volcano is an active volcano located approximately 30 km South of Guatemala City. Its summit is at 2552 mt. It is considered a stratovolcano which means it is tall conical has periodic explosive eruptions its lava is highly viscuous cool and hardens before spread http://www.travelblog.org//Central-America-Caribbean/Guatemala/Volcan-Pacaya/blog-82085.html April 11th Day Four Yesterday after settling into the hotel in Bonito around 6 PM I had enough time to think and decide what to do in the 3 or 4 days that I plan to stay here. Bonito has a relatively sophisticated touristic ecosystem. It seems to be very hard to book a trip to any of the attractions without the support of a local tour agency. Agencies act as client relationship managers an http://www.travelblog.org//South-America/Brazil/Mato-Grosso-do-Sul/Bonito/blog-48825.html Written in March '06 this is an account of a 8000 km 5 K miles long trip I did in April'05 through the Brazilian Midwest. It all started in Rio de Janeiro and finished well in Rio de Janeiro. I drove all the way from Rio through Sao Paulo to the Mato Grosso do Sul state where I visited a place called Bonito a few days later I drove north to the Mato Grosso state where I spent some time i http://www.travelblog.org//South-America/Brazil/Sao-Paulo/blog-48803.html