Blogs from Western, Honduras, Central America Caribbean - page 33

Hello everyone! Hope your all well. So this weekend we went to Lago de Yajoa, which took about 2 and a half hours to get there. We went on Friday afternoon and came back on Sunday. We stayed at Hotel Agua Azul, which is literally right on the lake, which is HUGE, I think its 22km long, that may be completely wrong though. The hotel was fantastic, it was in the most beautiful location and had a quite nice restaurant (though we had a couple of people feeling a bit ill after one particular meal - don't worry mum I'm fine). There was a reception and loads of different cabins - with hot showers, thank the lord! Its suprising quite how happy hot showers can make a person. Plus it had a really nice pool. The ... read more

Hello, Just a quick message... Well we arrived in La esperanza yesterday after a long long bus journey, but luckily it allowed us to see the beautiful countryside - its so hilly and green, covered in pine trees. There are 15 of us here who arrived on the same day, plus 3 guys already here, so theres a really good community feel to the place and everyones getting on really well. Me and Amy (18, very nice) got taken to our homestay, staying with Ana, Maria, Julian and Maria's 2 kids Sayar (8) and Francis (14). The house is quite nice, the rooms are far bigger than I was expecting, but its really really basic. The bathroom/toilet is an interesting one - the shower doesn't work so we have to use a 2 buckets - one ... read more

Hello everyone, We made it to Honduras just fine and we are currently at the Copan Ruins. The town that we are staying in is really cool. All of the roads are cobblestone and there are a lot of cute cafes and shops. The town is surrounded by coffee and tobacco plantations so there is a bunch of high quality coffee and cigars in town. Today we went to see the Copan Mayan Ruins and they were really amazing. The ruins that we saw today date back to between 600 to 700 A.D. They are stacked on top of even older ruins that are now underground. There were many statues and pyramid type ruins with long stairways running up. We walked all around the complex and took way to many pictures. Tomorrow we are crossing the ... read more

el volcano estuvo muy padre, aunque subiendo no estaba muy feliz yo. estaba super dificil, pero bueno, al final si valio la pena. es un volcan activo, y cuando llegamos a donde esta todo el lava seco, se sentia el calor que venia desde adentro de la tierra. tambien vimos fuego y lava nueva que salia. estaba raro, tenia miedo, pero se me hacia padre pensar que todo a mi alrededor parecia una pelicula de dinosaourios, hasta podria jurar que un teradactyl iba a salir volando. ahora nos encontramos en el pueblo de copan ruinas en honduras. decidimos dejar el viaje a las meras ruinas hasta mañana porque hoy no sentimos de la mera chingada despues del volcan y el viaje hasta aqui. entonces hoy descasamos y buscamos viaje a tikal para mañana despues de las ... read more

Our initial plan for Honduras was certainly more than it turned out to be. We blitzed the journey from the border North in order to go to the Bay Islands - tropical paradises with amazing and cheap diving, only to realise that the weather was terrible and there is nothing worse than being on a sandy island in the rain! So instead we went straight to Copan, a famous site of Mayan Ruins. We were slightly delayed in the morning of our second day as we had to get a police report for the things that were stolen from Sallys rucksack on the bus the night before. The cheeky buggars took her sandals and flip flops, fleece, ski jacket and also strangely her bikini bottoms and contact lenses! Never mind, we were not harmed and we ... read more