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.<br>

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 ...

... and chips followed by beef stroganoff, carrots and papaya, followed by watermelon and cookies baked by his daughter. Having just regained my appetite I ate far far too much and regretted it later - but it was a lovely evening. We stayed up on his porch chatting about everything from the English monarchy , to working in a developing country, development and how we were going to deal with going home at the end of the trip.

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

... off as we approached...but one was not so lucky as to escape our wrath. Now, either this was the dirtiest vulture in history or we hit it with such force that it simply exploded because there was a perfect imprint of the bird on our windshield for the remainder of the trip. I assumed that someone would have the decency to wipe it off when we stopped for lunch but apparently they felt it was a warning for other vultures--a cruel reminder of their fallen brother.<br><br ...

Friday June 12<br>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. <br ...

... few games of pool and a sing-a-long with the guitar. Bar closed at 8.30pm so we were alcohol-less in no time. A few of us went down to the jetty and had a night-time swim. I did have to hold Joseph's hand so he could jump from the high platform... haha. I went to bed just after 11 - back to the bird aviary to bunk down with 8 others to the sound of the jungle and the animals outside. There was quite a bit of lightening around tonight - no rain so hopefully it holds out.!

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&#8217;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 ...