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Travel Blogs from Marcala
Learning to fly underwater
Everyone who ends up on Utila is there to dive. It's just accepted, like the fact that Utila is the cheapest place on earth to become scuba certified. Or was the cheapest place to become scuba certified... Travelling with a guidebook, especially in a place as relatively untouristed as Central America, puts you in a sort of time warp. The most …
Lake Atitlan
Left for Antigua on Friday 22-6 spent the night to leave early for a tour to beautiful Lake Atitlan. We drove to about 35 k}s from the Lake and jumped on some bikes. The ride through villages down winding hilly roads was great and exhilerating. I didnt fall, but one guy had a huge wipe-out. We stayed at a beautiful hotel called Casaa del Mundo, …
From playing domino to writing prescriptions
... villages in the form of feeding programmes for children and medical brigade to support the first support the basic medical aid. Next to there is a dentist who is very important to help people with extracting rotten teeth. These people asked if I was in for some adventure and if I could help them with this temporary clinic. So the next day I joined them on the back of the pick-up truck in to the mountains. There ride to this place was already an quite adventure (and a ...
Honduran hill towns
... br> At the end of the line we left the bus and walked the 100 yards to the border. There were a few HGV’s waiting to pass through but no pedestrians and once we had found the correct window for exiting El Salvador we were checked and sent on our way in no time. The Honduras immigration office was quite close and again we were the only people there. We filled out the required forms, paid $3 each, the passports were stamped and we were in ...
Beautiful Gracias
Yesterday we arrived in Gracias after a very long, hot, bus ride from Marcala starting at 7am. Catching the bus from Marcala to La Esperanza was the easy part . Once we got into La Esperanza it became a little more difficult. We arrived at a fairly busy bus terminal, people yelling different bus destinations all over the place, example: "Comayagua, Comayagua, COMAYAGUA !" or trying to sell you copious amounts ...