We were in Copan ruinas last week. It seems like ages ago already. The town was very cute. It did remind me a lot of Antigua and ad San Cristobal. The one reason why it is wort taking a trip to Copan is because of the Mayan ruins that are situated right outside the city. We hired a guide, and we greatly enjoyed hearing about how 20 000 Mayans lived. To our pleasure some of the buildings had been restored. The kings who ruled this village/city used to build new buildings on top of the old ones when they gained power. This means that although it looks like the town is built on a mountain top; it is actually built on a mountain of stone houses. Archeologists have managed to create tunnels underneath the houses, and they have discovered tombs and colorful temples underneath. I was very impressed to find that the Mayans used so many colours on their buildings. The buildings must have looked even more amazing in their glory days. They didn’t use any metal, so all the beautiful stone sculptures we saw have all been carved by flint and other hard stones.
After our stay in Copan ruinas we took a luxury bus to La Ceiba. It was wonderful to sleep on a bus where you could actually almost lay down flat. We even got food! We knew that we had to take a boat to Roatan, the beautiful island we were aiming for. Since I have a tendency to turn inside out whenever I see a wave the size of a ant, we did prepare ourselves and took seasickness tablets. So when the boat left the shore, I found pressure points on my hand that is supposed to prevent you from getting sick if you press them (don’t know if I found the right ones), and I thought to myself ‘this will be a piece of cake’. 10 minutes after I had my head in a plastic bag. I was sweating like crazy and I thought that Armageddon was upon me. Luckily the staff on the boat kept taking my puke bags and running up to me with new ones. It actually makes me feel a bit sick just writing about it now!! It is possible to fly out from here, but we got a return ticket. In other words, I know that another nightmare awaits in a few days time. I might take a whole packet of tablets next time, and I’ll let Matt knock me uncounscious.
The Island is really beautiful. The sand is white and powdery. The water is clean and warm. No stingers here! We are staying in a shared cabin with bathroom and a kitchen. Luckily, we have the place to ourselves at the moment, I you don’t count the mice and ants that live in our kitchen.
Diving is very cheap here. One dive is $35, which is about 250 NOK or £25. We went for a dive today, but we will book 2 new ones for Monday.
The food here is really expensive! (not compared to the UK or Norway, but still!). We are now making all out meals in the cabin. We were just about to have egg sandwiches for lunch when we discovered that all the eggs we got were actually rotten! I have never seen rotten eggs before. Did you know that they get black spots on them?
That’s all for now! Hope you are enjoying summer! There is nothing like a European summer. It is way too hot over here!
Fact of the day 1: Cheddar cheese may taste like nothing in some parts of the world.
Fact of the day 2: In Roatan they actually give you prices in dollars! That says a lot about this place I guess.
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