Hotel Presidente Tela

... counting house for united fruit that the local council are trying to restore and the guy in charges shows us around and we happily tell him we will be back later. After dinner we head back out to the abandoned building and spend the next two hours enjoying a cracking concert full of energy and dance with loads of big drum beats going on in the back ground. The spanish is a bit ropey but we ...

... tell us we're illegally trying to cross borders and they can't let us in without paying a huge fine. But if we want to try our luck, we can make our way all the way back down to Costa Rica to "abandon the region" to get a new visa stamp, and all will be well if we can do it. So we opt to try our luck by continung to illegaly cross borders...those nice folks with big guns at the Honduras and Nicaragua who were clueless ...

Hey Everyone! I apologize for the very long delay. We are currently on Utila Island of the Bay Islands in Honduras and are very busy doing our Divemaster internships. There are a few destinations between Utila and the last blog I wrote so I'm going to catch you up on them. Tela, Honduras - January 10-11, 2009 Tela is a seaside ...

... and we generally spruced the place up. We met her for all of 10 seconds but she seemed impressed in those few seconds anyway. I hope she used the toilet. So after a hard days work we treated oursleves to dinner out the headed to the beach for the party it had on it that night for carnival. We sank a few g&tīs by the bonfire to finish off what would have been my hottest birthday to date. The rest of last week is already a bit sketchy in my ...

... a backpacker now. The ride to San Pedro Sula bus station was non-eventful. I was on the bus to Tela, now an hour after departure time and we haven't moved an inch. Finally a representative of the bus gets on and told us that the reason for the delay is that the road to Tela has been taken. Of course, I immediately think guys with machine guns taking over the road ...

... it is rumored that some have solar panels and tvs. A family at the villiage prepared us a lunch of rice and beans in coconut milk, fried plantain (with ketchup it tastes like fries) and fish. Gord ate most of my fish as I can not get past seeing the whole fish...it looks way too much like it was when it was alive. The kids got to swim on the beach for an hour and now are watching Scooby Doo in Spanish in our room. It was another great day....until the next time.

... to the beach if I have time, and then we will prepare to go back to Triunfo at 1:30 pm. Other groups went to San Juan and Tornabe. They all had great experiences, some with not so great turnouts, and a little bit of challenges here and there. But thats what this is all about, working along, figuring out what to do as it comes. We dont have a super strict plan, and the girls are trying their best without much Spanish knowledge. Good thus far! :-D Hasta luego!

... on Hotel Rio Mar, which is no frills, but the rooms are fairly large with private bath with cold shower. (No need for hot water here, itīs WAY too hot outside.) We were lucky, and ran into the owner, Senor Sherwood, at his neighboring, luxury hotel, and he offered us a discounted rate of only $14 for the more downscale, beach-front hotel, which ended up being the best deal in town. Tela is a ...

One of the greatest parts of living here is the ability to travel to places that I have never been. This is Bernadette's last weekend so she got the privilege of choosing this weekend's destination- the beach! Lauren, Alex, Bernadette, and I went to Tela after school on Friday. Our ride could have been much shorter but we got stuck behind a truck full of sticks that ended up breaking down and blocking the whole road. We still haven't ...

... not like water, so we wrapped him up, fought with the guys in the dive centre and he took us to the hostel, we checked in and upacked so we could dry everything, little steve's box was ruined and we all had a good laugh. so after a little lunch we decided to go look for an apartment (as we planned to stay for 3 weeks) and also a dive centre (as we planned to dive) so i donned my water proofs, trousers and all, and we set off with out shoes, i was having a great time splashing in ...