So we left the lovely Copen Ruinas town nice and early in the morning and got on a very crowded minivan to our next stop in Gracias a Dios. Honduras is starting to prove a tricky country to move around. Our first experience was this packed minivan with no leg room, mid way we stopped at a town and all of a sudden loads of dodgy looking men starting running towards our minivan and all tried to jump on, luckily the drivers helper kicked them off and one guy fell s...

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...

Well well well Guatemala, you were a surprise. Originally this country was not on our list of destinations, mainly due to the advice from various sources within the UK saying ít has one of the highest violent crime rates in the world, and the bbc even going so far as saying that Guatemala is on the verge of being a failed state. However after numerous people told us to visit, we decided to find out for ourselves, and it turned out to be a beautiful, stunning c...

To relax after the week of Spanish, we decided to take a leisurely stroll with other students up to the "Indian nose" (see photo album for why peak is called this). It was not in fact leisurely in any sense. Everyone else started running up a massive hill and Emily was left stumbling along at the back. (Some ozzies turned back after 10 mins, but Dave had no mercy and Emily had to carry on). San Pedro is about 1800m above sea level and the Indian Nose is about 50...