Hotel Camino Maya Copan

We take the bus from Le Ceiba to Copan, changing at San Pedro Sula. Honduras transport is surprisingly efficient, we check our luggage at Le Ceiba and its transferred for us in one piece. The coaches are punctually, air-conditioned, comfortable, cheap ($25 each) and we get a film to watch in English.

We are staying at Café Via Via in Copan which is fairly expensive for a hostel at $16 a night but cheap for Copan, one of the more expensive and ...

... br>Quando finalmente pequei a estrada( que so tem uma faixa) estava cheia de
caminhoes. Quando cheguei a onde estou ja eram mais de 6 da tarde
a fronteira estava fechada. Vou levantar cedo e cruzar amanha cedo em
direcao a Ruinas de Copan em Honduras. Abraco a todos

... The fact that the US is calling for the reinstatement of the president is absolutely absurd!

So now that I´ve had my little rant...I´ll talk about today´s adventure. Our day started by meeting Carlos who owns and runs a coffee plantation in the Honduran country side. Joining us for our adventure were Paul and Camilla who are now our two favorite British people.

Together, we drove about an hour outside of the town down a gravel ...

... vergeten), over tweebaans "snelwegen" met hele grote lange vrachtwagens, over slingerende bergwegen, met heel veel linke inhaal manouvres....tot we stopten bij een wegrestaurant. Niet om te pauzeren, maar om alle rugzakken op het dak vast te binden zodat er nog twee ouders met twee kleine kinderen mee konden. Tijdens het laden van het dak konden we de benen even strekken. De banden van de bus hadden wederom weinig rubber ...

... Des enfants issus de familles nombreuses et qui doivent tous aider à la maison et n'ont par conséquent pas le loisir de se chamailler ?

Au cours de mes 5 semaines passees a Ventanas Abiertas, Petra et moi avons lu de nombreux livres aux et avec les enfants, avons assisté les institutrices lors de l'activité quotidienne cad que nous avons collé pas mal de papier et pu ensuite frotter la colle restee sur nos mains et bras !, que nous avons distribu ...

... vorstelle, aber waehrend der Bootsfahrt mussten wir bei so Indianerhandwerkszeuglaeden und heissen Quellen, die nochmal 2$ gekostet haetten aussteigen. Das fanden wir definitv nicht so ok. Aber naja, musste da ja jeder mitmachen (ausser unserem Boot lagen immer noch ein paar andere vor Anker).Ganz goldig waren dort die 3jaherigen, die da einfach ueber in Zweier-Kajaks ueber den Fluss geschippert sind. Jede deutsche Mami waere ...

... feels like I´m being raped. Too much and my gargantuan ***** end up clogging the toilet, which is a whole other upleasant kettle of fish.

Ironic isn`t it? When my plumming works, the house´s plumming doesn´t.

But enough about my bowel movements (or lack of bowel movements). Did you know that Kurt Cobain was actually a fighter pilot? He flew F-18´s and was the pride of the US Airforce. I was one of the last people to see him alive before he crashed his jet and ...

... around a few BBQ areas and a little further was the river that we needed to cross to get to the spings. Rocks had been arrarged to funnel the hot water to mix in the cool from the river so that it was bearable to sit in. We squeezed ourselve into the man mad pools with our Life Savers (Salva Vidas, the name of the local beer) and enjoyed the moment, with the occational burning as the piping hot water tricked through a bit to fast. It was quite an experience. When we headed ...

... I bought some of their top notch stuff from the office and rather than give me a bag from in there they went and got me one that had just been roasted and ground. It´s damn good but I still haven´t found anything to rival Vietnamese coffee. Even better than the coffee tour was the Flor de Copan cigar factory. They do actually do tours there and it was brilliant. We got to see all the stages from the leaves coming in to be stored and matured to ...