Our first attempt to find a boat to get us across the border ended in failure. Hit Omoa but there were no boats going to Livingstone. So we over nighted in Omoa. Where the highlights were a lunch of BBQ fish with banana chips, dinner of fish kebabs by candle light because of the power cut and a big fight between some locals involving macheetes!
Up early the next day for want turned out to be the high-light of the trip, although the not so adventurous amongst the group hated it. Having missed the speedboat from Omoa Livingston straight to Livingston we went for the adventurous Jungle Route which involves two canoe trips and a few short hops by bus and pick-up truck and pitches you straight into regions rarely visited by outsiders. The following is constructed from the notes in my diary and I hope the details are correct. We set off from Omoa and took the bus along the main road get dropped off at the entrance to a ranch. Here we took a pick-up truck across the ranch to Cuyamelito and down to a small river. After what seemed like forever a small boat arrived we loaded up our ruck-sacks and off we went. It seemed like we could capsize at any moment. We then switched boats and this open seemed even less well balanced. And then we hit a massive river (the Río Motagua I think), which we cross. With the boat rocking from side to side and none of us daring to move in case we turned the boat over. Like a scene from a Tarzan film crocodiles were slipping off the banks and into the river expecting dinner at any moment! Somehow we made it to the other side where we transfer into a more substantial boat, with holes in it. We had to bail out as we went down the muddy river land at a huge banana plantation in the Finca La Inca area. The banana plantation was on an industrial scale. The bananas wrapped in plastic whilst growing, pesticides everywhere and perfect looking bananas. The workers houses, football pitches, basketball courts, but the impression I got was of a concentration camp. A few bus changes and a really dodgy immigration post and we finally hit Rio Dulce.
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