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After abandoning our epic sea voyage from Honduras to Guatemala we needed to make our way back overland to Livingston and return to our original itinerary. As we headed off at dawn on the ferry from Utila we were greeted by clear skies and calm seas and I had this nagging feeling that the weather would be like that for weeks to come. <br />

Pitch Dark in the Jungle

Patrick Gatland
2006-04-05 09:29:38

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After abandoning our epic sea voyage from Honduras to Guatemala we needed to make our way back overland to Livingston and return to our original itinerary. As we headed off at dawn on the ferry from Utila we were greeted by clear skies and calm seas and I had this nagging feeling that the weather would be like that for weeks to come.

Some of the best fun we had in Honduras was as we were traveling around the country and we really enjoyed our journey from Utila to the small holiday resort town of Omoa. We bumbled our way across a fair chunk of Honduras in coaches, collectivos and chicken buses (we even managed to squeeze in a cyclo ride along the way!). Our Honduran travel mates were pretty friendly and there is certainly something encouraging about a nation when a foreigner can get on a bus full of local and mumble "Buenas Tardes" and have the whole bus scream back at you in unison "¡BUENAS TARDES!"

According to the Lying Planet Omoa is a town that wealthy Hondurans flock to for its idyllic beach setting. Certainly it's by the beach, whether I'd describe a kilometre of black sand speckled with I was assured by the waiter that hanging plastic bags of water from the ceiling is the best method of keeping mosquitoes away.garbage as "idyllic" though. .. But we had fun enough sitting in a beach-side restaurant watching rich Honduran children being dragged along by a boat as they sat on one of those huge inflatable bananas.

We finally escaped out of Honduras the next day and alas there are no pictures of me kissing the Guatemalan soil but lets just say we were pleased to be back.

Livingston is a town only accessible by boat and it certainly did seem to be a world away from a lot of the other parts of Guatemala we had already visited. A large part of the population is made up of Garifuna who are the black Guatemalans. Their ancestry is traced back to shipwrecked slaves en route from Africa and Caribbean islanders. ...

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