Coco Pando Resort La Ceiba

... you had to get a running, down-hill start. You knew to jump when you ran out of rock beneath your feet. Oh, and the landing? A pool of white water at the bottom of a rapid. We all survived this one, then John started the real challenge -- a 10 meter jump with a very difficult climb to get there. The climb started in the white water where we had landed for the 5 meter jump, and proceeded directly up a rock cliff. I ...

... room scan and told the clerk we'd take it. Our only other option at the time was a youth hostel, which we later found out some kids we traveled with from Guatemala caught bed bugs from. Mom and I lugged out bags upstairs, cranked the AC, sat on the beds and breathed a sigh of relief. Then we looked up and noticed about 100 big ants crawling all over the walls. I moved my bed away from the wall and hoped no ants would drop on me in the middle of the night. <br><br>Next stop, Utila.<br>

... the cooking-sausages-on-molten-lava pictures, as well as everything from the past few weeks in Utila).<br><br><br><br><br><br> In Puerto Cortes, we boarded a chicken bus bound for the Honduras/Guatemala border, arriving at customs at dusk. There was an awkward few minutes when the teenagers with machine guns at Honduras customs inspected our passports and debated whether or not they&#8217;d let us through as the border was officially closed for the day ...

... crossed back over the river and to the lodge. <br><br>Came back and had some more fresh fruit and then soup, rice and tortillas for lunch. In the afternoon we went for a swim and to play in the river and then spent some more time in the hammocks. Another wonderful day in paradise of workout in the morning and chilling in the afternoon. <br><br>Pork chops with rice, fresh salsa and warm corn tortillas for dinner, followed by some more Salva Vidas (local beer), Guifiti and ...

... other wildlife here. The river got progressively narrower as we paddled. Eventually we turned back and headed to the beach where we ate lunch and had a swim in the ocean. To get to the sea we had to cross the lagoon water that was emptying into the ocean and I was surprised that it was much cooler than the ocean water! We headed back to the lodge and I settled into ...

We got a bus from Rio Dulce to San Pedro Sula in Honduras and spent a night there before we headed to La Ceiba on the Caribbean. San Pedro was pretty grim and dodgy so we only stayed a night in the nice Hotel Real. We went to the Parque Central where the Gran Hotel Sula has a bar round its pool behind the hotel. We went for a drink there which was like stepping into 1980´s Miami or something with cheesy organ music and a guy crooning. We ...

... ocni vicka, lokty a tradicne usi. Jidlo tu bylo vyborne a konecne poradne porce. Ostrov je osidlen vetsinou cizinci, takze jeden vecer sme sli na all you can eat pizza+pasta, smazene cinske nudle- vyborna dvojita porce apod. Co se mnozstvi jidla tyce, v Hondurasu jsme konecne obdrzeli odpovidajici mnozstvi jidla k nasim telesnym schrankam. V Guatemala to byli spis chutovky nez porce, takze si clovek musem dat 2-3 jidla aby se najedl.

... and grabbing some lunch its hard to find anything other than americanized restraunts selling pizza and burgers.. so the food isnt so great. i like the beladas but they open later at night.. so im off to catch a boat it leaves at 12 when they orginally said 2 but its ok... i was the only one snorkeling so kinda scary when your alone in the ocean

... The tourists that do seem to come here only pass through on their way to visit some of the sites nearby to the city (like the places I had visited). The one place in the city that I seemed to visit the most often was the aptly named Mega Plaza shopping mall. This place was multi-functional for me since if I needed to buy something or receive some service (Internet cafe, ATMs) odds were I could find it here. It was flanked by a huge department store at one end and a large grocery store ...

... within what seemed to be a fine degree of accuracy, the food we could buy with the money that remained. The only thing left to do was to take action. We picked Thursday as the day to shop for all the food. The entire family came along for this actually. Initially only Maidelyn was going to shopping but I told her that I would come along for this as there was a ridiculous amount of food to buy. Granted she did manage fine for the other items that she had purchased on my behalf ...