I'm in Guatemala!! As with my last travel day, I was lazing around until midday as both times the only transfers available have left at this time. This is because the transfer drivers will usually do the same route twice in one day - so for example our transfer driver today would have left Antigua early in the morning to get to Copan Honduras before driving us back to Antigua in the afternoon. This time, the transfer was not 'effectively private' as I was joine...

Am writing now as a huge thunderstorm pelts Copan having been ominously brewing all day. Luckily, am dry and swinging in a hammock but hoping it clears up before I have to get some dinner...and pick up my laundry. Today was my last full day in Honduras and it was a good one. It started up a tree. I finally managed to do a canopy tour! I've been waiting to do one of these for ages and for whatever reason been in the right place at the wrong time etc and not been...

Copan was the capital of a major kingdom in the southern Mayan empire from the 5th to 9th centuries AD. It was a cosmopolitan city, with inhabitants of many different ethnic groups from the surrounding region. The city fell around the 800s due to epidemics striking the heart of the nobility and causing the collapse of this once almighty powerful Mayan city state. From then until the Spanish conquest, villagers not kings made home in its opulent courts. The Mayan...

God, if you're there, please just burn all Honduran ATMs. All of them. Thanks. Will explain later. It was a slow start to the day. I got disappointingly little sleep given how much time I had...largely cos it's so dam hot in El Tunco (well, in Central America generally to be honest) and fans are so dam loud! My transfer to Copan arrived at 12 and was effectively private. It was just me in a minibus listening to Dua Lipa while a sleepy Honduran navigated Salv...

This morning I decided to have a pramble around the centre of San Salvador. It was a market day so the streets were packed with market sellers, as well as open sewers and homeless people... Yeah San Salvador is horrible. Like, really, really bad. But at least I finished on a couple intriguing things. First up was a military parade, or rather, a load of soldiers sat round a carpet whilst a couple other soldiers walked some men in suits with a wreath around thei...