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9 marzo 2016, Guatemala ⋅ ☀️ 37 °CI'm barely awake enough to write this entry. After the tiring, eternal bus ride yesterday (13h instead of the 8h this distance usually takes, thanks to a completely unnecessary ferry for a 50m wideLeggi altro
I'm barely awake enough to write this entry. After the tiring, eternal bus ride yesterday (13h instead of the 8h this distance usually takes, thanks to a completely unnecessary ferry for a 50m wideLeggi altro
The trip took me further east, first by bus to Río Dulce, then by boat to Lívingston on the Guatemalan Caribbean coast. Once again I noticed the friendliness of the people here: once I got out ofLeggi altro
After being escorted by the hostel dog to the migration office on the morning, I had a nice long walk along the beach to some waterfalls, called the “siete altares“. Since it is dry season, it wasLeggi altro
Guatemala is amazing and I could have stayed there forever, but since I now had been on the road for two days to get to Honduras, using every medium of transportation possible, I was happy to finallyLeggi altro
I had some ideas of what to do in Utila: going to the beach, doing a whale shark tour, snorkle every day... But the private hostel beach was so convenient and the people there so nice that I barelyLeggi altro
Did I say I didn't do anything in Utila? Well at least on my last evening me and some others rented a golf cart and took a trip around the island.
When I got off the ferry from Utila this morning, I was picked up by the driver of the Jungle River Lodge - the name perfectly matches. The rustic jeep took me over a long, unpaved road into theLeggi altro
Two more days of travelling lie behind me. After a short chicken bus ride from Río Cangrejal to la Ceiba, I actually got a pretty comfortable and direct (!) bus to the Honduran capital Tegucigalpa.Leggi altro
Ok, it wasn't my first volcano hike - but definitely the first to bring me to the crater of an active volcano. It was even possible to see the magma flowing sunterraneously, through a small hole atLeggi altro
It's THE thing to do in León (and, according to the guides, only here): walking up the active volcano Cerro Negro and coming down in boards that remind of bobs. Even though the main focus today wasLeggi altro