The transfer from El Salvador to Honduras was long and painful! It involved a 3 hour journey (with road works) from our coffee plantation to San Salvador airport, the obligatory 3 hour wait for an international flight, a 30 delay in take off and then a 3 hour drive from San Pedro Sula to Pico Bonito Lodge. We arrived in the pitch dark at 7.30pm and had to be guided by flash light to our jungle cabin. Fortunately dinner was available until 10.30pm as in many places the restaurants shut at 8pm. We decided to swap hot showers for cool G&Ts whilst mulling over the excellent menu (probably the best to date).
Our pick up at 6am for a boat trip to Cayos Cochinos Marine Reserve, was late, meaning we missed breakfast for nothing! We were dropped off at Sambo Creek at 7am and told others would be joining in a few minutes - we thought this would be around six others. At 7.30am we were still on our own, but shortly after mini buses chock full of tourists began arriving.
No one appeared to have any knowledge of us or our booking but eventually we tracked down the man in charge who after discussions with others in the arrangements, agreed that there had been an almighty mix up.
We opted for a refund and lift back to our hotel.
This is how we SHOULD have spent our day - cruising and snorkelling amongst Caribbean cayos.
This is how we DID spend our day - relaxing by the pool, sipping rum punches and taste testing the local beers!
Today we took ourselves off on a trek through the Pico Bonito National Park ending up at Los Pilas waterfalls where we were able to swim in a cool pool.
Tomorrow we head off to Copan for some Mayan ruins.
Our pick up at 6am for a boat trip to Cayos Cochinos Marine Reserve, was late, meaning we missed breakfast for nothing! We were dropped off at Sambo Creek at 7am and told others would be joining in a few minutes - we thought this would be around six others. At 7.30am we were still on our own, but shortly after mini buses chock full of tourists began arriving.
No one appeared to have any knowledge of us or our booking but eventually we tracked down the man in charge who after discussions with others in the arrangements, agreed that there had been an almighty mix up.
We opted for a refund and lift back to our hotel.
This is how we SHOULD have spent our day - cruising and snorkelling amongst Caribbean cayos.
This is how we DID spend our day - relaxing by the pool, sipping rum punches and taste testing the local beers!
Today we took ourselves off on a trek through the Pico Bonito National Park ending up at Los Pilas waterfalls where we were able to swim in a cool pool.
Tomorrow we head off to Copan for some Mayan ruins.
You should have stayed home and spent a week or two at Butlins. All this foreign travel - it's just not natural.
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