Leaving day and 7 hours to the next stop. To make the journey interesting Liz got Guatemala belly.

We barely got 200 meters before we had our first hitch. A steep section of dirt road was impassiable after the rain last night. Luckily the resident levelling plant machinery was still there from when we came, it even had a driver.

An hour later we were bouncing our way along the road through beautiful scenery. And the best bit, the mini bus is only half full.

The temperature rose steadily as we desended out of the mountains. We were toasting well in long trousers and a shirt when we hit another obstacle - a long slow moving queue for the ferry crossing. The strong smell of sewage and some persistent kids selling coconuts did not help pass the hour or so wait before getting on the ferry.

The ferry was a bit of a joke, it was a simple platform with a large open oil drum in each corner. A driver would get into each rear corner in order to drive an outboard motor that was directional via rotating the oil drum. The driver had a thatched sun parosol that made the whole thing look even stranger.

Despite the Heath Robinson design the ferry made out of bits and pieces took two lorries and four or more cars. The design looked more shaky when it took 5 minutes to get the lorries in the right place before the outboard motors were low enough in the water.

The reving of the outboards indicated that we were away. You would not have known it otherwise, after a minute of reving the sh-- out of the engine we still seemed to be stationary and still on the banks. However after 5 or so minutes we got up to walking speed and the other bank. The other bank was the exact opposite of the other side - it was nice.

Not long afterwards we got to Flores and as it was a shuttle we were delivered to the door of the place we intended to stay.

Flores happens to be one of the main staging posts for the famous Mayan ruins nearby. However it's best selling point is it's location. Flores is on an small island in a lake. So the place is a nice size for restaurants and bars but even basic places to stay have lake views.

We were shown to a nice modern en-suite room with a patio and lake views but at 11 pounds a night was far more than we wanted to pay. There was one without a view for 8 pounds which we took. The place has a roof top terrace (well more like just the top of the building) with hamocks and good views of the lake. It reminded both of us of a place in India.

We went out for something to eat and then settled in the room to watch Sin City before going to bed knackered.