Dear all, We spend almost 5 days on Ometepe - more than initially thought: When we scanned the guide book we were not so sure whether we would find the island exciting - only to be proven better. We were lucky that Claudia could join us to Ometepe initially. She did not visit the place for many years so we decided to do the highlight - the climb on the Maderas Vulcano with its foggy rainforest - the first day. We got up at 4am in order to be back in time f...

Dear friends, Roatan was great - we spent almost 6 days chilling! But we are lucky - after nice comes nice. At least for us right now: Thursday we arrived in Tegucigalpa. We visited Claudia, a friend who is spending 3 years there with KfW. We were enjoying her comfortable home and some pleasures of being in a capital. Went to a real supermarket (!imagine that is rare!), a viewpoint and went to swing our hips to some Salsa rhythms during the night. There we met ...

Dear all, If you believe it or not…we needed some days to recover from Lago Atitlan. The reason for that were the many sandflies bites (yes, at a lake at over 1500m altitude) we had gotten. They all got infected a little and were itching like crazy. But we got a cream against it and after 3-4 days we felt better. We made it into Honduras where we visited the final Maya ruins of our trip - Copan. After getting stuck there a bit because of bad connections...

Dear all, What a great birthday!! After a little cumbersome ride to Lago Atitlan, we arrived at 11am. Maarten had a destination in mind and directed us towards there upon arrival. How surprised was I when I found myself in a shop arranging paraglide flights over the lake. That was my birthday surprise - Maarten let me know. What a cool idea!! I have been saying for some time that I wanted to try paragliding before. Unfortunately it was not possible the sa...

Dear all, its unBELIZable (national motto) here. We have had a very good time over the past days - despite of the rainy weather that we want to mention only shortly. We entered Belize through Corozal, where we met some dieharts we received a lot of information from - about the world and god and including some information on Belize :). So based on their help we got a place to stay at at Caye Caulker, which is one of the small islads in northern Belize (can b...