Hotel Yaragua Copan

... back to the hostel.
Right on 9pm the power in the town went off for about 40 minutes, One way to make sure all people get off the street I suppose! Bloody Honduras! Bloody Presidential Coup!
There were plenty of other things to do in the area, but I wanted to make a few days up, so decided to head to the Bay Islands to do a scuba diving course the next morning. Two Kiwi girls from the hostel were also heading off, so we teamed up to leave in the morning

Today we visited our 12,348,372nd ruin....okay, maybe that´s a slight exaggeration. Amanda Speaking.

Despite the fact that we´ve visited so many archeological sites, we are still finding them all to be absolutely intriguing. Today, we went to Copan. Strangely enough, the name of the ruins is Copan and the name if the town is Copan Ruinas. I don´t get it, but I really like this town.

So, when we first entered the ruins, we found a tree full of parrots ...

Friday's are half days at school. We did our usual teaching, 1st, 4th, 5th, 6th. At this point the kids are starting to get used to us, which can be good and bad!

I promised the girls that we would take a relaxing weekend in the mountains. They had their first experiences riding on crowded chicken buses, the grand terminal, and fitting people in the trunk of a taxi (the kind with windows). I really like going ...

... whlst Rahul stayed in bed and slept for a total of 15 hours each night after the tour. Rahul, again true to form caught a "flu". Of course this had to coincide with the outbreak of swine in mexico anbd north america. This passed (onto ben) within a couple of days and we caught a 7 hour bus through San Pedro Sula to La Ceiba, on the Caribbean coast of Honduras. When boarding the ferry to head to our next destination ...

... instead of crazy packed. The ride was hot and bumpy but we managed at one point in time I had a small kid hanging on to my leg so she wouldn't fall down. Copan is a small town close to the border of Guatemale that has more mayan ruins. These are on a much smaller scale then Tikal but very nice in there own right. They are only 1km out of the town with a nice trail beside the road to walk on so no need to pay to get out there. We stayed at a hotel for 10 ...

Ana nous tire du lit, difficile mais faut pas trainer, la journée va être longue. 1er arrêt à Guatemala City pour récupérer les parents d'Ana, puis petit déj mérité, guatémaltèque bien sur! Enfin, Quiriguá site patrimoine de l'UNESCO, sous une chaleur écrasante (merci la clim'). Ana essaie de se rappeler ses souvenirs d'école puis Nancy nous traduit son livre (les françaises ont laissé le leur dans la voiture ...

... thermales et des cascades qu`on irait possiblement voir demain! Ca reste à voir! On pensait se rendre à la capitale par le sud, mais je crois que le Honduras n`a qu`une seule vraie route asphaltée donc c`est impossible! En fait, tout part de San Pedro Sula! On peut soit aller a l`est, à l`ouest ou au Sud, pas vraiment pratique! Les plans : Remonter a San Pedro, arreter au Lac Yojoa, descendre à Tegucigalpa et de là on se rend à Managua au Nicaragua!

... a girl who I like even though I don´t really believe in God. Does that make me a bad person?

As the preacher spieled about the first test of Jobe or some ****, we sat side by side with Gaby´s leg grazing mine and I began to get hard.

So I got excited in the presence of a beautiful woman who just happened to be in church. Does that make me a bad person?

As I sat with a chubby, struggling to keep up with ...

... so we went over there at 1pm and stayed until closing time at 5. Those spendy, it was worth it ($15 to see the ruins, $7 for the museum). Joseph and I both agreed it was better than Tikal because we felt that less had been rebuilt according to speculation. The museum was cool as nearly all of the stelae and stone carvings were original. The ruins themselves were neat because you could better see how the people ...

... Got my hair cut for $2 including 50c tip in La Palma. I really don´t know how UK salons justify 25+ quid for trimming a bob. Jon always takes the oportunity to have his hair cut by the campest hairdresser we can find wherever we are - there was the lovely tangerine coiffed Mr Wilson in Colombia. I feel I should have spent longer in El Salvador, although apart from hiking the highlands and surfing there isn´t much to do outside ...