Day 18 - two options for the day - climb another volcano or do a day trip to a lagoon. The two Swiss girls - Lyvia and Jacqline of course chose to hike and everyone else chose to relax in the sun and swim in the lagoon. So we jumped on the karaoke bus again and headed 2 hrs out of Ataco to the lagoon, stopping on the way to get snacks and beers for the day. Arrived at the lagoon and got of the bus to a restaurant which was on a pier and unfortunately had som...

Day 17 - woke up around 5.00am to some very loud bangs that sounded very close so a little bit of panic set in especially after what we were told yesterday about El Salvador!! The bangs just keep going so we soon figured out they were not gun shots but instead fire works. You can freely buy fire works here so people are setting them off all the time which at the start was exciting, but it then quickly became very annoying!! We had half a day to explore Suchit...

Day 16 - early start as we were moving on today and it was going to be our biggest travel day of the trip - 13hrs. It was a hot night for sleeping and most woke to being very itchy with lots of bites on the feet and legs. Some more than others - Jereon being from the Netherlands, not use to it at all, had scratched them so much he had big wounds which in the end turned into big scabs - he desperately wanted them gone, so he scratched them out ... I know this fe...