(This is froma few days ago, since I am drinking gin today, I should probably get busy with another) Well we can’t say that we weren’t warned. We were told that taking this vacation during a time political upheaval would probably lead to us being eye to eye with some unsavory elements, and boy was that an understatement. We ended up standing next to one of the most horribly corrupt, power hungry, and half witted politicians on earth before we even landed in Honduras. Yup, within 3 hours of takeoff we were having our photo taken with C Ray Nagin. Made [View Full Entry]

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We spent 11 hours on buses from Copan and went straight to La Ceiba on the Caribbean coast off of Honduras. We got into La Ceiba and took a cab straight to our hostel. Our hostel is right on the beach. We went to the markets in town during the day. Its huge and kinda sketch but whatever. Its very cheap too. We stayed in La Ceiba a night, just to stock up on groceries for the Islands. We went to the store and when we came back there were wild horses running around right outside of our hostel. Pretty different [View Full Entry]

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Day 794 (02.06.09) With our time at Nutria Marina up were shown off by Bex at the bus stop and made our way on our hot and stuffy bus to a service station about 5 mins down the road. We had heard rumours that the recent earthquake in Honduras had done some damage further south and that a bridge was possibly broken en route - we had been told that our route was still possible despite this though so we pushed on. To our joy we were to change buses here for a posher air conditioned set of wheels with DVDs [View Full Entry]

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Well, I've been in paradise nearly three months now... which unfortunately means I have to deal with that pesky little visa issue. There used to be a guy on Roatan who would sort it out for you (i.e. stamp you for another three months under the table), but he no longer does it. So you can either go to Utila or I think still La Ceiba to get the stamp. Or you can take the 100 bucks you would spend and go see Belize. Which is what I chose to do! So heres my great big backpacking adventure of Central America... [View Full Entry]

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So ,schnell die Jenny von Flughafen abholen (soll der modernste in Honduras sein, na ja, aber sie ist sicher gelandet) Haben dann auf dem Weg zum Taxi noch Phill aus Canada kennengelernt, wollte in San Pedro bleiben und am naechsten Tag auch nach Utila, haben ihm erstmal davon abgeraten und gleich mit zum Bus nach La Ceiba genommen, und dann ging es endlich richtung Bay Islands, haben schon alles im Reisefuehrer darueber gelesen gehabt und waren so voller Vorfreude, nur das einzigste Problem war das Wetter, es Regnet einfach nur, villeicht ist es auf Utila anders. Nach 3 Std. bussfahrt komme [View Full Entry]

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Be on this planet, as if you are a stranger or a traveler!!! So was ist letzte woche alles passiert? Wir haben doch einen kleinen zwischenstop in PG eingelegt um Nesim ne kleine Pause zu goennen. Ein paar Haeuser neben unserem Hostel, hat ein gewisser Tom King sein Atelier. King ist Rasta mit Leib uns Seele. Hat in England Jura studiert und ein Haufen Land von seinem Grossvater in Belize geerbt. Also was macht der gute Man, gibt sein materielles Leben auf und zieht wieder nach Belize um Ringe, Ketten, Skulpturen usw. herzustellen. Ausserdem baut er auf dem grundstueck [View Full Entry]

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Puerto Cortes, 04 marzo 1990. I'm not really sure why we decided to have an overnight stop in this little caribean harbour place. The air is salty, the sea a magnificent blue and the harbour full with fishermen off-loading their catch from poorly maintained fishingboats. My nostrils are full with the smells of sweaty men and fresh fish, the smells of the sea and the droppings of the countless gulls that obscure the stifling caribean sun overhead. I'm not really sure I've ever seen so many gulls before in my life. Diving down they steal the fish that spill over and [View Full Entry]

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La Ceiba, 5 marzo 1990. Rumour has it that the honduran banks have allowed the lempira to flow which basically means that they will pay 4.50 lempira to the dollar, the current black market rate. There were no banks in Puerto Cortes and there are none in La Ceiba so Peter and James had to take a bus to San Petro Sula hoping to change money there, leaving me and Nora behind with our backpacks, I'm not so happy having to babysit Peter's bulky backpack considering its contents, all sorts of mind enhancing goodies and that most likely in huge quatities. [View Full Entry]

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5th Agosto- PUERTO CORTES Huge rainstorm the previous night, watched it while eating on a sheltered roof top terrace. Roya in training to be less scared of lightening. Speedy get up next morning, me covered in bites, savaged during the night, last count 30. Made it to San Pedro, got shouted out and swarmed upon as usual when we left the bus. We were shouted at again when we got to Puerto Cortes, not knowing where we were or whether we were in the right city we jumped into a taxi. Got dropped off at recommended hostel, completely desolate except for [View Full Entry]

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Situated about 9 clicks from La Ceiba, the Jungle River Lodge is on the banks of the Rio Cangrejal, surrounded by desnse rainforest on all sides. Rockie outcrops create natural pools and perfect cliff diving opportunities for guests. Although it's probably important to note that you should ask the guys who run the lodge first, as they know the safe places to jump. La Ceiba is hailed as Central America's Rafting capital and it did not disappoint; rapids graded 3 to 5 were more than sufficient to give us all white knuckles and the rafting was almost over too quickly. In [View Full Entry]

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