Blogs from Cangrejal River, Northern, Honduras, Central America Caribbean

What a fun few days we've had! After the rafting, we've also done horeseback riding and mountain biking! HORSEBACK Yesterday we signed up for the horseback ride. I was sure to take an allergy pill before we got on the horses, as I seem to be VERY allergic to them and will swell up without a pill. Silvia (the German owner) was one of the guides, as well as Allan (Ireland) and Lindsay (Canada) plus a Honduran man that I didn't get the name of who was breaking in one of their new baby horses on his first trail, ride. Walt got a pretty golden horse called "Nugget" and I got a brown one with white feet called "Pata Blana" (foot white). It was a few hours up the road from the hotel through several small ... read more

Marco picked out a place to stay that was just outside of La Ceiba on a bumpy dirt road along the Rio Cangrejal. It was a good base for a kayaking trip that Marco was keen to try. It was also a fun place to stay. The food was good and the drunken expats at the bar were both entertaining and informative. I got to camp on one of their wooden platforms for only $5 since I had my own tent. Marco and Hazel inquired about booking a tour into the Moskita but there was none to be had for less than a boatload of money. Their plan B was to press on to Trujillo and inquire there. Hazel and I would leave in the morning and Marco would bus it the following day after kayaking. ... read more

We caught the early ferry leaving Utila at 6:20 am on Thursday, October 8th, to La Ceiba on mainland Honduras. We had spent the last few days trying to figure out what our next move would be and decided to head for the jungle to do a tour or two. We played around with the idea of going to La Moskito, but after being tortured by mosquitos for the last week, the last place I wanted to be was to a place called La Moskito, even though the place was named for the people who lived there and not the insect (but there´s definitely plenty of the insects living there). In seriousness, due to lack of transportation infrastructure of the area, we would have needed to join a tour and they were quite expensive, transportation slow, ... read more

On Laura's birthday we left Utila and were picked up on mainland Honduras by Omega Tours, who we'd organised to go horse riding with. Laura had never been horse riding but had always wanted to so we thought we'd take the opportunity and as this company is run by a very respectable German couple with well fed and looked after (but small, as everywhere round here) horses it was a good place to be doing it. When we arrived back on the mainland our lift was nowhere to be seen (confusion over which terminal to be picked up from) so after being tricked by some guy into topping up his phone credit so that I could use his phone I called Omega tours and we were soon on our way sitting comfortably in the back of ... read more