Here we are in Copan Honduras. After arriving late last night in Guatemala City and having about 5 hours sleep, we woke up at 0400 to meet our shuttle at the Westin in Zona 10 Guat City. Now we know how the other half lives. The hotel we stayed in was quite like a hostel but the Westin was all tile, stained glass and art. While we waited for the...

lovely!!! wish i could write more but the internet is too slow. will have to update later! okkkk here i am updating! apologies for the typos in advance. this keyboard has a bunch of sticky keys, and besides, i want to write a little, and get going! Celebrating Amber's birthday tonight and spending it with a bunch of Honduran friends including so...

When we arrived in Honduras we thought we would scoot through the country leaving as much time as possible for Guatemala, which is what the majority of travellers to Honduras seem to do. But then we started discovering that this country had a lot more to offer. Specifically, we read about the north west region, La Moskitia, described as the Amaz...

We spent the next three days in the village of Copan Ruinas, close to the site of some Mayan ruins that we wanted to see. The village was quite nice and the hotel was OK with some nice outside spaces but the staff seemed to always be lurking about doing nothing which spoiled it as we couldn't get peace to sit and relax. The village itself was ni...

Time to head into Honduras now and into the small town of Copan, which only exists due to tourism and coffee plantations. We spent the evening at some nearby hotsprings. There was a small pool in the river which was really hot ... we were very surprised when we arrived to find a man and his dog enjoying the water! When it started to get dark we ...

Copan Ruinas We left Antigua and tried to leave Guatemala, but the traffic had other ideas. There was a nasty accident involving a car and truck,and while that would obviously cause delays, the serious delays happened from people driving into the other lane to try and sneak ahead, and then no one could move. Such stupid behaviour. I'd noted this...

The second weekend in July I 'escaped' to Honduras for two days. Way there - no problem since in a 'comfy', fast minibus (6 hours journey time). Way back - bus could only drive 60 km/h maximum, at some pointed needed to be pushed by the guys in the bus and an accident in the road made us stand still for about 1 hour. Apart from the journey (by t...

As we boarded our bus for Copan, an elderly couple were sitting in our seats. We had to help them figure out where they should be sitting. Most of this was done with gestures, because they spoke no English. They jabbered away to us in Spanish, all the time apologizing profusely for taking our seats. I think bus travel was a bit of a novelty for ...

We relunctantly left Antigua to face possibly the toughest part of our trip.... Honduras! We decided to take a tourist shuttle to Copan, it was cheap if not cheerful. We left Antigua at 4am.... that was the only flamin bus departing (one at an affordable price that is), and of course there was the usual bunch of strange tourists jammed into the ...

We had really and truly had enough of Antigua and cold weather so we decided to skip Lake Atitlan in Guat and head straight for Copan Ruinas in Honduras instead. We were so desperate to leave that we headed out to see if we could swing some bus tickets after we woke up from our volcano sleep. We managed to get the last three tickets for the 4am ...