Grissy's Hotel Tela

... is a pretty bad gang problem in the capital, but the small towns were calm and tranquil. In Santa Ana, a bigger city, there were a ridiculous amount of security guards with huge guns standing outside of something lame like a shoe store and everyone in the city was inside with their doors locked at dark. It was amazing how a lively city could just die at nightfall. So we followed suit and tucked inside too. But on the ...

... and vehicle insurance (where required). It was also far more expensive to temporarily import Gloria into Honduras than El Salvador or Guatemala. Well enough about border crossing procedures. Here's a quick story about how to not buy fuel in Honduras. Basically you have to make sure to tell the gas attendant what type of fuel to use before he fills it up. We didn't and because of that we spent a couple of hours at the gas station in Santa Rosa de Copan siphoning a full tank ...

... ceiling and a treachrous climb into the cave but Han and Claire (and me) braved to have the little critters fly round us in the caves. We then climbed up the tallest hill (theres only 2!) on the island, which was all of 70m high. We got a great view of the island from the top as we coild see the sea, the sun the jungle, amngroves and the town. The whole island basically. We passed the bat caves on the way back so sat there and watched them all ...

... guide has generally arranged some type of typical honduran food for us which is either fried chicken or fish, rice and beans and plantain. Our kids actually like the rice and beans and the fish, and the plantains are good smothered in ketchup...but then again what is not? Here is a list of some of our favorite meals: beef shishkabob with rice, beans, coleslaw for about 4 bucks....the kids ate pupusa that night which is tortilla dough ...

... garden in the world. It was started by an employee of the Tela Fruit Company thirty some years ago. Very interesting.....huge variety of species of plants from around the world. Mark and Albert, a guide in training who hung out with us a couple of days ago, took us out to the park. About an hour into the tour our guide picked up a stick to knock some fruit out of a tree. He bothered a hive of bees and they ...

... a town built next to the anicent mayan ruins of Copan. We went to see the ruins the next morning. The distinguishing feature of these ruins, are large statues called stelae, and a giant staircase, with inscriptions on every step. These were fairly interesting, but honestly, I'm pretty ruined out, and if I never see another set of ruins in my life, I think I'll be all right. During this time myself and Olson came down with some wierd ...

... das cuenta de que estas en la frontera porque hay unas cuantas personas que te ofrecen el cambio ilegal, pero una vez que pasas el grupo de unos 8 o 10 ( no mas) y has puesto el sello de entrada en Honduras no hay nadie mas que te atosigue, ni tiendas, ni personas intentando venderte nada, por encima en la frontera no hay ni turistas, en fin que casi no te das ni cuenta que acabas de entrar en otro país hasta ...

... really is a slice of paradise. Their property borders a fresh blue river and acres of forestland, and after settling in for the night we awoke to hike up to Maya Bella, a little hut on a hill about an hour away on foot. The view was reassuring for me: I could see Utila in the distance and felt secure being back on the mainland, ready for an adventure with Gus around Honduras. Agnes is staying her last few days solo on the hill to regroup ...

... and the patio had a TV with American channels so we thought that might be kind of fun. However, there was nearly a mishap that put a little fear into us. Our friend Lauren had a gun pointed at her and she maced some dude in the face. Please don't be alarmed... she chose to walk alone at night in a place that we were unfamiliar with, with cleavage. By no means was it her fault, but at the same time I am choosing to take every precaution to ...

... it is adverts for different padi courses and such like, and its done so a 5 year old can understand it! that afternoon we went up to the swimming pool to do our first dive, i know your on a tiny island and they take you to a swimming pool!!! but it was good did some skills messed around a bit that sort of thing, that night was the UDC bbq, UDC is the dive centre, you pay 5 quid all you can drink and a good filling of meat aswell, so we did that for a few hours and then to a bar ...