After leaving the Bay Islands we were to head back inland and up to Guatemala. As part of our shuttle route we had included a stop in Ruinas Copan, little did we known how good it would turn out to be! Ruinas Copan was just a few minutes from the Guatemalan border, a really quaint little town and a bit trapped in time. The people were friendly, hostel really nice and for a change we managed to get some nice local street food. The main purpose of our stop and th...

Our next stop was Honduras. We only planned a short stop there because a lot of the country (mainly the cities) is quite unstable. Many of the tourists are put off by higher rates of crime than elsewhere in Central and a lot tend to skip the country all together or head to the Caribbean Bay Islands which are very safe for tourists and backpackers. The journey was long but not too bad via a shuttle from Nicaragua. The border crossing was smooth and the ferry on t...