Hotel Paseo Miramontes Tegucigalpa

... spent my second week completing all my fun dives which varied from amazing to pretty ordinary. I must feel pretty competent underwater if I’m describing the experience as pretty ordinary. Unfortunately although I had another opportunity to swim with dolphins I did not have the chance to swim with a whale shark. They are currently in the area and a few of the other dive schools managed to not only see them but get in the water and swim beside them. I ...

... back to Tegucicalpa and we wound our way out of San Salvador as the city came to life at 5am. I watched the landscape change from upscale suburbs that would be home anywhere in the US to the chaos of the Centro Historico downtown to slums clinging to whatever earth has a few feet of level surface. <br><br>The Puerto Bus Terminal that we left from is like a bad dream from the 1970's in terms of comfort and looks. Picture it...5 AM deep in the bowels of what ...

... at 5:30am so of course it's a taxi ride for a few bucks to stay safe. And speaking of the bus to San Salvador, can someone explain this to me? I tried to buy a ticket today and the agent told me it would be a little while before he could sell it to me. I asked how long and he shrugged his shoulders. I told him I was in a hurry and he said maybe 10 minutes. Keep in mind this is all transpiring in broken Spanish and I was getting irritated since I ...

... nice feeling. I did not want to stay in the capital so I tried to get a direct bus to Copan but I had no luck. I ended up tooking a Hedman Alas bus to San Pedro Sula and had to take a taxi into the center to find a hotel as the busterminal is out of town.

... 16USD in the transaction.. i caught a cab and he took me to the ticabus station where i bought my ticket for 350L to managua and them had him take me to a safe but cheap hotel near the station.. tgu is a busy bustling city lots and lots of gangs you can read the grafitti saying 18th street or MS damn near every where .. i walked around a block or two justt to check it out but ...

... of Copan. He might have even taken over the nearby princedom of Quirigua and most of the monuments have been constructed during his reign. But the one that made Copan famous is his successor, 18 rabbit, who was a warrior, always seeking further military conquests until he was captured and beheaded in 738; then starting the beginning of the end of Copan's heyday with 18 rabbit's successors Smoke Monkey and is son Smoke Shell who nonetheless commissioned ...

... out of the way, each about 5 ft long. We are now parked in the parking lot of a Shell garage at Campento (N14.33.252 W86.39.066). 20th- Continued the journey to the capital Tegucigalpa and arrived on the outskirts about 10 am. We knew the address we wanted was on the ring road near the turn for the airport, unfortunately the ring road is not shown on any of our maps and as we found does not extend to the north of the town where we were. Still nothing ...

... the capital Tegucigalpa, in the hope that I could be able to make it all the way to Granada, Nicaragua, in time to start volunteering on Monday. Rather than trying to describe the type of volunteering that I will be doing, I will instead direct anyone who is interested to the organisation's website: http://www.casas-de-la-esperanza.org/ . However, for reasons that are no longer absolutely clear to me, I didn't end up leaving the island until Thursday. I think it was something ...

... from church. The last one we went to was about 45 minutes out of the city. The highlights including paddling little row-boats on the lake, eating rotissary chicken and standing about a foot away from a very old lion in a decrepit old cage. He did have a might roar though. Friday we are going to another park about an hour away. It is a tropical ...

... by a light breeze as early evening sets in. The bustling noise of motorcycles and cars going by, music blasting from radios, and shouts between friends in the street has quieted down some. But I am wide awake now. Probably more than I have been in months. This is why I'm here, this feeling, the one I always get when I'm on the road or starting something new. I have no idea what will happen tomorrow or who I will meet, and that's the beauty of it. That's what I love. ANYTHING can happen!