We ate breakfast at a local Comedor. Some kind of hot liquid ( atunchoco ) that looked like Avena with frijoles. It was savory rather than sweet. Not my favourite but edible. There weren’t any signs to say what the woman was cooking, but the guy beside us was having …
We ate at a local Comedor and had a really nice meal . I had pupusos- a kind of tortilla with a chicken filling. Bill had fried chicken and strange looking fries. I thought they were bananas at first but they tasted like potatoes. Both meals were served with fresh …
We opted to not get a guide for this site, but I guess everyone is a guide including the gardeners. We entered a wide area of grass where a series of stele were displayed. A man with a leaf rake struck up a conversation with us and the next thing …
sunny, warm 30″ 2015-11-02 11:26 a.m. Honduras immigration So we’ve been photographed and finger printed and welcomed into Honduras by a smiling and cheerful immigration officer.There are many transport trucks parked on the border. The drivers sling hammocks beneath them and sleep while they wait for whatever it is they …
We searched in vain for a hotel in the two small villages before the border. Finally we stopped at a gas station on the highway and I managed to find an open WiFi network! Googling Jocotan I discovered a couple of hotel possibilities. I marked one and we set off …
Stopped for gas just outside of the village and then headed toward the border with Honduras. We hope to stay at the last village and then cross over in the morning. The pictures give an idea of the terrain we passed through. In the hills it was much cooler and …
We awoke to Bill’s clock alarm going off at 6:30am. It was pitch black in the cave. I had left the lights on in the stairwell but they were out. I flipped the lights witch The power was outThere were matches and candles in the room so we lit them …
Well, we didn’t get off to a very good start. I had set my gps for a route and Bill had set his with Google maps. The two didn’t agree. Bill followed his which took us over tiny roads to a village and then up and down narrow village streets …
Our instructions for finding this place were very explicit, but didn’t seem to make any sense when we were looking. A right corner, tennis courts, horses…What I pictured in my mind bore no resemblance to reality. Actually we didn’t see the tennis courts until we overshot the place and backtracked. …
Spent the morning looking for a money exchange place. So far we haven’t found one We got hungry so stopped for some breakfast. This coffee house had good coffee but terrible food!We never did find a money exchange, so we gave up and headed back to the hotel to pack …