Dienstag, 20. Dezember 2011

San Andrés Xecul

 Thanks to Laura, Peace Corps volunteer from Hawaii, I had the chance to visit San Andrés Xecul. Her friend Kimberly was so nice to show me around.
We visited a Mayan village, went to the house of Maximon and hiked to a nearby waterfall.

The yellow church on the lonly planet guide is in San Andés Xecul.








Everything comes to an end.

Sonntag, 18. Dezember 2011

Santiago Atitlán


Crossing Lago Atitlán

 A tourist guide took mi to a private house to show me the Maximón



The statue of Santiago in front of the church


Freitag, 16. Dezember 2011

Back to Antigua


My small cosy room
This picture is on the entrance of the Hotel

Adios Copán

Sunset in Copán seen from Via Via


At PICAME in Copán I had the best soup on all my journey.
Jessica, from Picame organised my trip to Antigua.

Thank you, Esteban and Jessica for making my short stay in Copán a pleasure!


Mittwoch, 14. Dezember 2011

Rio Dulce to Copán (Hondurras)

This morning at 09:00 I got a ticket to El Flores, which is on the boarder to Hondurras.
They promised that it is a "directo" which means that I do not have to change bus. And in fact the bus had the writing "El Florido". Everything went fine until Chiquimula. There the passengers to El Florido where told to go on an other bus. At least we didn't have to wait much. We went on a smaller bus what made sense since there where not so many passengers. Soon later we had to change to an other bus which was a so called collectivo. A bus which waits until all seats are taken. You have totake into account that also the spare seats between the rows where taken into account. It went fine for a while, until the bus had a flat tire and the driver and his assistend where not able to change the tire. Everyone went of the bus again and we where waiting for a bus again.
It was alredy 15:40 when we arrived at the boarder. After the formalities  at  the immigration on the Guatemala side, we had to walk across the boaarder until Hondurras. There the same procedure again. On the walk the money changrs approached us. I just changed the minimum to be able to pay the collectivo to Copán.
At the end I arrived in Copán at around 16:30.


One girl was selling nuts, the other fruits
 I guess, no one noticed that I took the pictures





The Hotel where I stay



Dienstag, 13. Dezember 2011