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Published: February 10th 2008
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So i got up at 6am and i had the squirts which was a great start, maybe it was the ice in my drinks last night?, or maybe my stomach as issues with central america?..........lol
So anyway i headed out of the hostel after taking some imdoium and got a truck to the bus terminal and then i got a chicked bus to Chendega as per the Lonely Planet guide, it took forever and would have stopped for a chicken if chickens could keep money in there beaks...hehe
Then at Chendega i got a chicken bus again to the border and it totally took forever and so far it had taken 4 hours just to get to the border. At the border the bus can not cross and the are guys there with rickshaws and so i had to get one of those and i paid 2 dollars to leave Nica and 3 to enter Honduras and it was dollars they did not want local currency.
So every time you cross the border the are money changers and i needed Limpahs the Honduras currency to continue my journey, normallly from experince of the other borders they use the
usual rate less there commission, but these were robbing bastards as they gave me 14 limpahs to the dollar and i later found out it is between 18 and 18.50 per dollar, so i was down about 8 dollars the fecking scumbag.
I got to the bus terminus on the Honduras side and the ricksaw guy and his partner wanted 30 doallrs for like a 100 mtrs if that, cheeky barstewards............i said no way then they said ten and they did not want limpahs, they wanted dollars, the smallest dollar bill i had was a 5 dollar bill which was more than i wanted to give them to be honest, but its the smallest i had, i gave them the 5 dollars and walked away.
I got into a microbus heading to Choletca and had to wait for it to fill, eventually it did and we headed off to town my first impressions were this place is like texas its brown and dusty looking and the litter was worse than any of the other countrys and they had cut alot of countryside back for farming etc.
I had the feelinng i was not going to like Honduras and by the time i got to San Pedro were i am now i have been through 6 police road blocks and the are security guardsin cafes, hotesl everywhere, were im staying tonight has a security guard with a shotgun.
I got to Choletca and the its was really rough and grottty and i got on a bus for the capital and i ahd to wait for it to fill and it took ages to get to the capital and stopped everywhere and the folk on the bus and i have met so far have been so unfriendly. The people on the bus just threw litter out into the countryside and spat out of the bus aswell. everytime the bus stopped it was the usual central american tradtion of local people boarding trying to sell you stuff. i brought some tortillas to keep me going.
I eventually got to the Honduran capital and to best describe it would to say it resmbels the devils ass crack, i was dropped off in the are were all the buses go and this is the smae area Lonely Planet suggest staying in if you stay in the city and so this place is a full on slum, shady characters everywhere and steel bars, security and razor wire everywere, i got to the bus station for my bus to san pedro sula and still did not feel safe as the were some characters in there who looked like gang members and one of them gave me a look like he would carve me up. Maybe Honduras is nice round the bay islands were they speak english and its expensive.
I spoke breifly to a friendly Hondurian girl who spoke english and that was the only friendly person so far and so far the unfriendlyness and being ripped off is not making me fond of central america.
The bus was suppose to go at 4.30 (yup id been traveling for a while) it did not go till after 5pm and then was stuck in traffic and the smog was horrendous and that the dodgy guys were on the bus and i went to the back and laid low and i was a little scared they may do something to me, as it was people were metal dected prior to going on the bus by an armed guard.
So anyway the bus took forver and stopped at cafe and i got off to get water and someting to eat, i had rice platains and cheese and they got off and one of them said something loco(which means crazy) i pretended not to notice them, as soon as i got off at San Pedro i was aware it was too late to get to Copan Ruinas, i got a taxi for security reasons and the first and cheapest hotel was booked up and so im in the Hotel real with a security guard who has a shot gun, its 16 dollars for a room, i wanted to update my blog and had to wait for the pc to become free as this american woman was taking forever on it. its 12.30pm now and im knackered and heading to bed and then tomorrow copan ruinas which are mayan ruins and there for a few days and then into Gutemala and then maybe belize and then mexico or if money is short then gutemala and right into mexico.
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