Today Dave attempted to mount a horse for the first time and with not inconsiderable success. To be fair, our horses were fairly lazy and also seemed to know where they were going. Emily tried to get a bit of a trot going, but "Mariposa", which means "butterfly" in Spanish, did not live up to her name. We enjoyed more Honduran countryside, but unsuspectingly the guide took us, via a different route, back to the fertility frog sight. Emily would refute that she w...

After a 6 hour bus trip to the Guatemalan border, we passed through a very nice and easy customs office and before we knew it we were in a new country and nice new mountain town to explore. We are in the town of Copan Ruinas, Western Hondras. This place is a World Heritage site, and is rather lovely. Nice small quiet town with great mountain scenery, nice people and lots of culture. The town is most famous for the Maya ruins just down the road (which we did no...