Bitchin Beaches & Bites
Our time in Tela just kept getting longer and longer. First of all we found out that our good friend from Nicaragua, Neo, was heading our way from Guatemala to spend his final week abroad on the Beaches of the North Coast before returning to Boston, the court system and Medical School. Then Marcella told us that she was coming up for the day with some of her friends from the Doctorage way down in Yoro for the Saturday which suited us just fine, we could easily keep ourselves occupied in our lush hotel until the weekend.
Where Thursday was basically spent, by the pool and in the AC. I think we may have left the vicinity of the hotel and its 3 surrounding business' for a total of about 10 minutes, to go and buy a couple of ice creams. Friday we headed out fo another tour with Garifuna for a kayak through a mangrove river suystem to watch monkeys, alligators and birds, as well as test our skill in some tight and narrow situations. Back in town by the ppol we awaited for Neo, a few drinks to celebrate his return and out for dinner for some Seafood and 15 Lemp Cuba Libres.
Saturday we woke and awaited for Marcella, headed down to the big resort to met here and sneakily hang out in their pool for a few hours before we headed for the beach when we got busted where we bumped into a dazed (and hungover Neo) and out for aa Banana ride before returning to the pool back at our joint. We walked Marcella and the girls to the bus stop and we spent a few hours looking for some souvenirs before grabbing some more sunset brewskies in the pool and heading out for some papusas.
Trujillo bound Sunday morning, arriving in at Casa Kiwi some 5-6 hours later. Casa Kiwi was a really cool house located outside of town on this beautiful beach. The menu in their restaurant had some awesome favourites (no Sunday Roast unfortunately) and the ladies at the bar, Shaz & Joy (very Kiwi) were already getting stuck into it! We met the President's nephew who lives in town and hangs out at the bar, he took us around to another deserted beach for a dip before heading back to Kiwi and gettng ready for the biggest night in town, which ended with Neal piggy-backing me down a pretty steep hill and us falling on our arses.
Feeling a little hungover and soar the next morning, we were supposed to be heading out to another pretty beach but el presidente with whom we were to be going with was still out and partying so it all sort of fell through. In desperation to escape the sandflies we headed into town to use the net and hit a non sandfly invaded beach up there until it started pouring with rain so we headed back Kiwi way and spent the remaining hours of the day and night around the poker table before a 3am swim in the bay (by this time I think the sandflies were sleeping).
With still no car to access any of the nearby attractions, and bus services alredy passed by and sick of sandfly bites, we decided to leave the venue that had lots of potential by agreeing that it wasn't quite doing it for any of us. We grabbed the last bus for La Ceiba where we arrived yesterday heading out for plenty of Chinese food last night and plenty of these crazy Hurricane beverages to fulfill our thirst. Neal took off for Guatemala city where he flies from on Thursday, this morning and Lil and I were planning to hit up the Cayos Cochinos whilst we were here but looks like it is virtually impossible to get there so we figure we might just hit up the bay islands a little earlier than expected and stay in a Hostel a couple of nights whilst we wait for our apartment to be ready on Saturday, really looking forwad to the Bay Islands after the disappointment of Trujillo and no Cayos Cochinos, even more interested to see how Roatan has developed in 8 years, now with direct flights from the US.
Anyway internet is like $10 an hour on Roatan so don't expect an update or some picturesque photos for a while!
Where Thursday was basically spent, by the pool and in the AC. I think we may have left the vicinity of the hotel and its 3 surrounding business' for a total of about 10 minutes, to go and buy a couple of ice creams. Friday we headed out fo another tour with Garifuna for a kayak through a mangrove river suystem to watch monkeys, alligators and birds, as well as test our skill in some tight and narrow situations. Back in town by the ppol we awaited for Neo, a few drinks to celebrate his return and out for dinner for some Seafood and 15 Lemp Cuba Libres.
Saturday we woke and awaited for Marcella, headed down to the big resort to met here and sneakily hang out in their pool for a few hours before we headed for the beach when we got busted where we bumped into a dazed (and hungover Neo) and out for aa Banana ride before returning to the pool back at our joint. We walked Marcella and the girls to the bus stop and we spent a few hours looking for some souvenirs before grabbing some more sunset brewskies in the pool and heading out for some papusas.
Trujillo bound Sunday morning, arriving in at Casa Kiwi some 5-6 hours later. Casa Kiwi was a really cool house located outside of town on this beautiful beach. The menu in their restaurant had some awesome favourites (no Sunday Roast unfortunately) and the ladies at the bar, Shaz & Joy (very Kiwi) were already getting stuck into it! We met the President's nephew who lives in town and hangs out at the bar, he took us around to another deserted beach for a dip before heading back to Kiwi and gettng ready for the biggest night in town, which ended with Neal piggy-backing me down a pretty steep hill and us falling on our arses.
Feeling a little hungover and soar the next morning, we were supposed to be heading out to another pretty beach but el presidente with whom we were to be going with was still out and partying so it all sort of fell through. In desperation to escape the sandflies we headed into town to use the net and hit a non sandfly invaded beach up there until it started pouring with rain so we headed back Kiwi way and spent the remaining hours of the day and night around the poker table before a 3am swim in the bay (by this time I think the sandflies were sleeping).
With still no car to access any of the nearby attractions, and bus services alredy passed by and sick of sandfly bites, we decided to leave the venue that had lots of potential by agreeing that it wasn't quite doing it for any of us. We grabbed the last bus for La Ceiba where we arrived yesterday heading out for plenty of Chinese food last night and plenty of these crazy Hurricane beverages to fulfill our thirst. Neal took off for Guatemala city where he flies from on Thursday, this morning and Lil and I were planning to hit up the Cayos Cochinos whilst we were here but looks like it is virtually impossible to get there so we figure we might just hit up the bay islands a little earlier than expected and stay in a Hostel a couple of nights whilst we wait for our apartment to be ready on Saturday, really looking forwad to the Bay Islands after the disappointment of Trujillo and no Cayos Cochinos, even more interested to see how Roatan has developed in 8 years, now with direct flights from the US.
Anyway internet is like $10 an hour on Roatan so don't expect an update or some picturesque photos for a while!
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