Hotel Villa Nuria San Pedro Sula

Well this has been a crazy week, trying to understand the Hondurans! The Honduran teachers are driving us mad with incomplete exam timetables (the first one didn't work) and then today we were having school, and then we were not, yes we were…..and we didn’t know until 7am if school was on!!

The reason being, that Wednesday evening, there was a big football match between Honduras and El ...

... of the park since before it was protected by the government.

4) Visit "Toucan Waterfall".
To get to this astonishing waterfall, you have to hike for one and a half hour. While you walk you get to see different traditional/high quality/conservation coffee farms. The waterfall has 4 falls; you can only get to sea the 4th one when you get there. Swimming at the cold water is something you can't miss!

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... pick up our bag, and to head for San Pedro Sula. We have a booking on the 3.20pm bus to la Ceiba and we’ll stay in the Hotel Italia, which looks nice. We have not decided our plans for the weekend – 2 choices between snorkelling and kayaking on some small remote islands or staying in Utila to take a diving course. More pics next week, hopefully of sand and sea!

... great impressions of the eccentric Hondurans he has to deal with all day and helps us make sense of this wacky country.

Katie Buttram aka Mama Goose – always makes the same wacky face for pretty much any emotion. Though she thinks she’s “the old one” of the group (at 30) she is as goofy as us “youngins.”

Brian – 24 from Boston. Says the funniest things in the most dead pan voice. For example, when we were cooking in ...

... walls anyway as well as chasing away the cockroaches and large jumping spiders!!! Anyway, they are a thing of the past. The only real problem now is the dogs -they guard the house and there is a tick infestation in the living room (even after the house was fumigated) as well as in the yard. the dogs were cleaned again today, and we have a spray to keep the ticks at bay - I'm just a bit itchy though! We have a small ...

... other volunteer who was assigned to Kinder (preschool) and I had different strengths and that we were better suited for the other grade. I am pumped! Preschool is a crazy responsibility since I will be the first person to expose the little 4 year olds to English, but it will be so fun because basically all I have to do is play with them. They learn through play and I get to design some super fun play centers for them. If you have any fun ideas please let me know!
Cofradia, Cortés, Honduras mgesley

It was a semi-epic journey to finally arrive in Honduras, but I made it! My flight from Quito left late so they put me on the 7:30pm flight out of Miami to Honduras. When I arrived in Miami, however, they said the 7:30 flight was actually 7:30AM the next morning. So I made the airline pay for a night in a Comfort Inn where I savored my last pristine U.S. bathroom and hot shower with excellent water pressure. I made it into San Pedro Sula airport and the director of ...

So this is where my luck ran out for a day or 2.

Everything had been going great on the trip so far and then I went to Honduras.

Marieve headed back to Costa Rica to catch her flight back to Canada and I headed back to Granada for a day to plan out the next few days of the trip.

I wanted to stay down in central america for another couple of weeks and work my way up to Guatemala via Honduras and El Salvador so I called up the airlines and tried to change my flights.
San Pedro Sula, Honduras iantrickett

... At first I try to enjoy it like I would a rollercoaster. But I'm jostled and bounced around...trying to stay steady but my 115 pounds of me are no match for the rough currents. My fellow passengers look equally distraught, lying down on benches, putting their head in their hands. Then I start to feel really bad - my heart is racing, I start sweating, and I'm extremely dizzy. I'm handed a plastic garbage bag not a moment too soon. Nice. Aside from a 4-year-old girl, I'm ...

Hello all, Just a quick note to say we are here and safe. Very hot! We are having quite an experience and taking a lot of pictures. We will have a chance to get online more when we get to Roatan on Monday. Thanks for your continued prayers. Lots of stories and pictures to come! Karen