A we had left honduras in the afternoon due to flight times from Roatan, we did not arrive at the nicarguan border until about half 9 at night. Crossing the Honduras border was fine but at the Nicaraguan end, the officers tried to get our tour guide to bribe them to let us across the border. The definite advantage of being part of a tour group is that the leader is normally local to the area of travel, so is therefore fluent in the lanaguage and knowledgable ab...

So we got to Copan, Honduras on the best day of the year (my birthday of course). To be honest if i was doing this trip myself i probably would have given Copan a miss. This is only because the town is very small with not a lot to do except go and visit either Copan Mayan ruins or some hot spings. I had a bit of a chest infection fom the last ones because of all the sulphur steam fro the water and after Tikal ruins, I didnt really feel the need to spend my day...

When we finally got out of antigua and on the winding roads, we made our way to Lake Atitlan where we got the boat over to San Juan for a planterra supported Mayan homestay. The lake is beautiful and sorrounded by volcanoes. The area has several towns which are all Mayan. We stayed in San Juan which is a bit smaller but now growing in tourism, and it is famous for its natually and hand dyed cottons. ASs it is a volcanic area it is quite hilly so we made our w...

Sorry the internets been a bit bad so havent updated in a while! so we left Rio Dulce and got a bus to the UNESCO world hertiage city old city of Antigua, Guatemala, the old capital or Guatemala. It is now guatemala city due to eartquakes ruining Anitgua. It is a very pretty a quaint city built in a spanish Baroque style. It is laid out in blocks with streets running in avenues and calles (streets off the avenues). And all the streets are cobbled. The house...

After Flores we were slightly dismayed to find that we would once again be staying in aJungle Lodge and so were not exactly excited to see our basic accomodation! I am happy to say we were wrong to prejudge! We arrived by bus then boat to the Hacienda Tijax Hotel & Jungle Lodge in Rio Dulc, Guatemala! All of the chalets were quite large with 2 or 3 beds in a completly white room with white bedding and white mosquito drapes (the ones that look elegant, not a...