After three weeks of diving in vast, empty, private reefs I had originally decided not to bother going to the popular Bay Islands off Honduras but then after talking to Verena and Patrick, a German couple that we met in the hostel we decided that maybe we should go after all and just sit back and relax for a couple of days, and maybe I would throw in a dive or two. Plus I can hardly come all the way to Honduras and not visit the Bay Islands! The coach from Cop...

I have seen Maya ruins in Mexico, Guatemala and Belize so why not start our visit to Honduras in the same fashion. Copan Ruines is a small Honduran town that on the map looked pretty simple to get to from Belize via Guatemala. I was soon proved wrong, a boat, a taxi, a bus, another taxi, a night in a San Pedro Sula and another bus and we finally arrived at Copan a day later than planned. On top of all that, I had come down with some sort of stomach bug and hadn...