Honduras After school, I never thought I´d spend 7 hours on a school bus. But that is how we got from Belize City to Punta Gorda. They squish as many people as they can on the buses and thru the aisles and make stops wherever someone wants to be picked up. You rotate from knees on the seat in front of you squashed down a bit to head on the seat in front of you to sitting up straight...every 10 minutes or so. It seemed extra hot that day. We finally arrived in Punta Gorda just before sunset, slept there and [View Full Entry]

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After a harrowing day of four buses and hundreds of miles we arrived in the coastal city of La Ceiba, in the north east of Honduras. It was just a stop over however on our voyage to the Bay Islands where we were to indulge ourselves in yet more world class diving. Unfortunately the majority of the first day was spent bumming around La Ceiba as the doofuss in our hostel told us the wrong ferry times but nonetheless we arrived on Utila later that afternoon. Utila, the smallest of the three islands was inhabited first by Mayans, then spanish and [View Full Entry]

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So where were we...oh yes, when last we spoke I was busy poking fate in the eye with a red hot poker, rambling on about the virtues of some tough travel for the long term benefits of the memory banks...that which does not kill you only makes you stronger...etc, etc. So there we were in Granada, a couple of volcanos, rivers and a tad of the carribean away from the Corn Islands, no big deal right? We've crossed the Andes! Crossed the Amazon! Crossed Lima at rush hour already, we're a well oiled machine now, this is kid's play! So off [View Full Entry]

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What an exhausting and fulfilling week! Let´s start off by saying that Utila is awesome! A little background first, Utila was discovered by Captain Morgan and is where he found Blackbeards treasure and it went on to become the biggest pirate colony in the world. Need I say more? Utila is basically a dive town, and Bryan did his advanced open water courses while there. I was 100% sure I was not going to dive because I was terrified, but every single person I met talked me into it and I decided to go for it. Utila is the cheapest place [View Full Entry]

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OK, so I know that I have been a slacker when it comes to updating this lately...and by lately, I mean the past 34 days, but there has been so much going on, it was hard to find the time. When I last wrote, I was in Nicaragua, finishing up my fun travels before coming here to Utila for my course to become a SCUBA instructor. I left Leon, Nicaragua on a bus at around 6 am, bound for San Pedro Sula in Honduras. As always seems to happen, I met two people on the bus who were also planning on [View Full Entry]

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So Honduras was the next stop and as time was limited we decided to head straight for the Bay Islands; straight meaning a 4 hour bus from Rio Dulce to San Pedro Sula and then changing for a 2 hour bus to La Ceiba. There are only 2 boats a day from La Ceiba to the Bay Islands so we set off on the usual task to find a bed aided by our guide book which by now is looking a little worse for wear! We headed to the highly recommended Banana Republic hostel but were informed on arrival that there [View Full Entry]

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Yihaa! Saa er ventetiden forbi, endnu et nyt blogindlaeg er ved at tage form! Denne skrivelse omhandler eventyret i Honduras, vilde dyr, vilde dyr der ikke var der, danskere, massere af sol, samt en afslutning. Ovenstaaende blev skrevet i gaar, de billeder jeg gerne ville uploade laa ikke paa min DVD hvilket medfoerte, at jeg gik i panik. Nu ligger de paa DVD'en, men denne computer kan ikke laese den. De ligger ogasaa paa IPOD'en, men der er ligeledes problemer. Ergo, det bliver uden billeder.. Starter, som man boer og goer, med slutningen. Vi forlod jo Costa Rica for at drage [View Full Entry]

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Ok...i admit...it is actually the 25th June...we´re in Costa Rica for about 11 more hours and I still have to write about that and Nicaragua. I promise I will...but for now....here´s all about Honduras. So we awoke next day bright and early, but def not bushy tailed, to get a minibus from Antigua in Guatemala on to La Ceiba, first port of call in our 4th country on the tour - Honduras. We left good old Jungle Party hostel at about 4:15am and finally arrived at the bus station in La Ceiba at about 5:30pm. Mamouth day of travelling! Mini bus [View Full Entry]

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Hei! Talla hetkella olen Utilan saarella, noin tunnin laivamatkan paassa mantereelta. Tarkoitus oli olla taalla vahemman aikaa, mutta tanaan kun vihdoin olin lahdossa, kavikin ilmi etta La Ceiban satama on lakossa ja taalta ei mene laivaa. Joten taalla pysyn. Koulu, jossa olen toissa, on lomalla taman viikon niin otin vapaata kielikoulustakin. Tarkoitus oli katsastaa Trujillon kaupunki tana viikonloppuna, se on Ceibasta itaan, mutta en tieda totetuuko se nyt jos tuo lakko jatkuu. Trujillossa on hostelli johon ajattelin menna toihin heinakuussa ja halusin kayda kattomassa jos se on mukava pai [View Full Entry]

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Being a long narrow isthmus of land, Central America has two long coastlines, one of which has the Caribbean Sea lapping at its shores, backed up by the second longest reef system in the world (second only to Australia´s Great Barrier). Honduras boasts 700km of Caribbean coastline, which combined with its posession of a few palm-fringed, white-sand islands, means that there is quite a lot of fun to be had in and around Honduras´north coast. CHAUCHAUATE - CAYOS COCHINOS The highlight of my last couple of weeks has been a trip out to a completely undeveloped, postcard-picture white-sa [View Full Entry]

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