Amatique Bay Resort And Marina Puerto Barrios

When we crossed the border on foot, after immigration we were instructed to walk 150 meters to the "bus terminal". We arrived to find a few food stands, and a single bus parked on the side of the road. Apparently that constitutes a terminal! This old US school bus took us the next leg of the journey, to Puerto Cortez.

Although Belize and Honduras are fairly close together (as the crow flies), getting from one to the other is surprisingly complicated. From Punta Gorda to Utila involves two boats, two minibuses, a chicken bus and a regular bus. The following series of map pins describes our route ...

... reason the people didnt want to open their windows to let in the air. Ok so off we go on the highway.

Nope,not yet. A pit stop at a bus station and the driver disappears for 10 mins. The passengers are annoyed and one brave guy gets out of the bus and comes back a minute later with an annoyed face muttering ¨coÑo, en baÑo¨- the driver had to drop the kids off before the ride. Off we go now for real. I ask the driver how long to get to La Ruidosa, the fork in the road ...

... when I get back to England!). The building was probably the most dilapidated we’ve seen so far with one main room (a back bit was flooded) in which we did all of our consulting/examining (although I did take a young girl behind a curtain to examine a lump in her axilla) and dispensing. For the first time the pharmacy students worked with us, which made prescribing much easier…. Or so we thought… but we ...

Here it is...the long-awaited, first travelpod entry for Project Guatemala 2009. Actually, it´s really only been about 48 hours...and there is no such thing as Project Guatemala 2009--alright, let´s try this again.

Here it is...the relatively short-awaited (for some) and not at all-awaited (for most) travelpod entry for what is heretofore going to be referred to as: Project Let´s Figure Out How To Use These Keyboards Properly 2009. (Despite the fact that they are ...

Friday June 12
Way too early of a start today! Was up around 5am and by 5:45am we were standing on the side of the road waiting for the 6am(ish) chicken bus into La Ceiba. By 6:30 it still hadn´t come past but someone heading into town offered us a ride so we jumped in the box with the two others who were already in there (Don´t worry mom and dad, this is completely different than hitch-hiking!). I was a bit sad watching the jungle disappear as we drove down the rode.
Puerto Barrios, Guatemala lindsaym

... pilotis et Nancy prouve par l'expérience que les poissons ont des langues... Je commande un ceviche: crevettes "cuites" par le citron avec tomate, oignon, piment et coriandre bien sur. Différent de celui que j'avais gouté en Équateur mais excellent! Malheureusement on sort trop tard de table et on rate la visite du château. Pour se venger on se paie un cocktail dans le jacuzzi...

de Puerto Barrios ha lanchas rapidas para Belize (pequeno mas belo pais), dura cerca de uma hora . Passei a noite la. No caminho a aduana. O oficial de honduras nao estava ja fazia duas horas... bem , passei para a Guatemala meio informalmente . Do lado Guatemalteco queriam que eu deixasse a moto e tomasse uma conducao inexistente para porto Barrios, que ficava a 15 km. Insisti, ate deixarem eu passar. Foi uma boa ideia ir ...

I just received pictures of the houses that we built in Guatemala and it's amazing!! Sandra and her family are now living in their home that we helped to build. It's so great to see a picture of them standing beside and in their new home. The kids are as cute as ever! It feels good to know that we helped make that happen. I'm so glad that we were sent these pictures. This is a good day!

Puerto Barrios is not much more than a sailor's port of call, and not much of that. There’s a newer port down the road, so PB is merely a minor crossroads growing more minor every day. There are blacks here, in addition to the Latino and Mayan cultures more typical of Guatemala. Some even speak English, more part of the circum-Caribbean culture, which is equally, if not more ...