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 ...

... i could spend all day up there sliding through the trees, the tour included nature watching and he explain about some local plants during a brief hike.. the tour lasted about an hour and a half, ending back at the lodge with some fruit and drinks. i ended up hanging out with my instructor and heading back to his village witch has no name and drinking at his mother in law's bar only 16L a beer back at the lodge it ran $2USD a beer.. so we ...

... 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 ...

... There was an older boy there, Nene, who helped us explain to the boys. I did my best with mySpanish, but stil it was a bit of a challenge to explain everything. The children were about ages 13-17, and seemed to enjoy everything, though they liked to goof off and giggle, too. Many were all smiles, glad that we came; and that was what mattered the most to Selena, Arianna, Sophie, and myself. In the taxi ride back to th hotel, the three Heat girls exuded ...

... of different kinds of plants and herbs to it, and then bury it in the sand for a week. It steeps in the heat of the sand and infuses the rum with this really rich, herby, almost smokey flavor. Wolfe and I decided that our small samples were plenty! I'm done now, I could right endlessly about the sweet things we have seen (and I want to right an essay on the way that Carnivals bridge all cultural gaps). This is such an exciting part of our trip ...

... 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 ...

I only have a short time in Tela on my way to the ferry at Perto Cortes. The place I was going to stay was full and I'm not in the mood to look around too much. The owner gives a recomendation for the place down the street and I don't argue. This is a mistake. I hear Tela is a great place to find cheap seafood so I head to the beach. After a few overpriced beach hotels I find a nice shop ...

... being sick down the back of this poor guy. there was atleast half the people throwing up an it was all 1 guy could do but run around with bags and tissues, i was fine! a guy sat down from me left it 2 late to get a bag from the crew so grabbed his mates sandwich bag and that was the end of those. both people on either side of me were ill and it wasnt very nice, i thought about cracking a couple of jokes but many people had full bags s i thought better not risk it. caroline was ...