We left Gracias early in the morning, 1st July, and headed the border of El Salvador. This took us 4 hours, via two buses and then finally a taxi to the border. When the taxi couldn't take us any further we had to walk the last 200 metres past hundreds of trucks all queuing to cross. Once finally on the other side we caught one more bus to the town of La Palma, only 30 minutes away, as a rest stop for the night but also to check out the murals around the town tha...

We left Copán bright and early on the 29th and caught two buses to Gracias. On the first bus we saw an uglier side to Honduras when we left a larger town and four men demanded money from the bus conductor for stopping in "their" area. We presumed that they were from a gang- not nice. The second bus was another ancient specimen from Honduras' collection and was a particularly unpleasant fume and dust filled hour. When we arrived in Gracias we went to a cafe for ...

We left the Omega Lodge outside La Ceiba and caught the bus to Copán Ruinas - the town outside the famous Mayan ruins of Copán. As it took us most of the day to get there we didn't do much else apart from find somewhere for dinner where we met a Spanish guy called Raul, who had been travelling solo for 6 months and had been all over the world including Ethiopia. The next day we got up early to explore Copán. We were surprised that we and Raul were the only 't...

After nearly a week on Roatan we caught the ferry back to the mainland. The ferry was not so rough on the way back so I (Simon) got to watch some of the World Cup as I didn't have to keep looking at the horizon as I did on the way over. We had arranged to go white water rafting on the Rio Cangrejal so were picked up at the ferry port in La Ceiba by Omega tours and taken to their lodge in the nearby mountains. It turned out that we were the only ones staying the...

We had geared ourselves up for a mammoth journey to get to one of the Bay Islands, Roatán, in Honduras and although it was a very long day, it wasn't quite as mammoth as expected. We got a small boat from Livingston to Puerto Barrios at 5.30am. From there we had anticipated taking a bus to the border and then two more buses to the city of San Pedro Sula (one of the most dangerous cities in the world apparently). However we were met off the boat by a man driving ...