Blogs from Bay Islands, Honduras, Central America Caribbean - page 52

Before we get to the sun and sand, must tell you about the trip there. We left Livingston on the 4am ferry (you can only get to Livingston by boat).... it was about a 1 hours boat ride in the blackness of early morning. We got to the port town of Puerto Barrios where we were acousted by taxi drivers offering to take us to a town to catch the bus to the border. We have figured out how the scheme works: the closer the people are to the boat or bus you are getting off from, the more expensive the "deal" is. So we walked 500m down the road and saved ourselves being charged 4 times the price. We bordered a mini bus headed for the border(1 hour) and met a really great Hondurian couple ... read more

Yes, I had found paradise!!!!!!!! Woke up and got my beach stuff together, and headed down from the hotel towards the town. The weather is amazing, as it always is, and there in daylight is the first glimpse of paradise, white sand with wooden beach huts serving as shops and bars dotted around, beautiful crystal clear indigo water, with dark coral reef amongst it. Amazing! We walked along the coastline to the far end of the Beach, and took in the sun. Then swam in the amazing water, you can just float, and there are exotic fish around you like Baracuda. The Coral Reef is beautiful and you can snorkel and see all it has to offer. Just spent allday on the beach, and then caught a taxi, a water taxi back to the hotel!!! The ... read more

“Is that rain?” Who ever thought that three small words could usher in a more, err, colourful period of travel adventure? Waking in beautiful, spectacular La Ceiba early, we aimed to get to the terminal ASAP so we were certain to make the ferry to Utila. Utila is an island off the coast of mainland Honduras that was used as a hideout by pirates who would plunder Spanish ships that were carrying bounty the Spanish had plundered from South American Indians. The population of the pirates in these parts grew to 5000 or so until the authorities killed or enslaved the mauraudering bunch. Nice. Nearly as nice as the weather that bucketed down and filled the streets of La Ceiba with floating refuse. We aimed to create our own pirate ship while in Honduras. We had ... read more

OK Andrew is here today and helping, I am typing! 28/12/05 and 29/12/05 - Granada (hot, hot, hot!) Day one we walked around and admired the magnificent and colourful Spanish colonial buildings. We spoke to a guy at a church, Iglesia de Merced, and he said we could climb the bell tower for a donation. The view at the top was absolutely spectacular and we could see Lago Nicaragua. We also climbed out on the roof because we were alone. The church was built in the early 1500s and is absolutely beautiful itself. Night - had "mojitos" with the group - rum, sugar, soda, mint, ice - and at some point in the evening I decided cooling off in the baby jesus fountain would be a good idea. Day two we decided to navigate our own ... read more

Scuba diving rules! Damn I can't write about it because this internet cafe closes in 5 minutes and I need to post photo's. Well it took me more than one day but I now have the time to update this! Jord and I are now certified scuba divers, Ryan will be in about 3 hours when he finishes his last 18m dive. It has been an incredible experience, and we're going to do our advanced training starting on Saturday or so. We plan to do night, wreck, deep sea, navigation and peak performance buoyancy dives. We'll be down around ship wrecks at 30m soon! I had a little trouble equalizing on my first 12m dive but sorted it all out and have a much better system now. Found out yesterday that there's a place in the ... read more