… or whatever way you’d like to pronounce yet another word for “island”! Arright once again! After almost a week of gray skies, it’s time for a little more sunshine, blue skies and oceans, palm trees, reggae, yah man, etc! (Look here for more terminology!)

After a little bus-and-boat ride we arrived on Caye Caulker, home to everything which is slow, sunny and very Caribbean! Time to continue enjoying the sun, swimming, snorkeling and … surprise … diving! The first few days mostly consisted of “decelerating” - after all the motto down here is to go slow. This appeared to be pretty easy, even wildlife seems relaxed when approached! We also made a brief visit to San Pedro… Madonna might have fallen in love with the place, we sure didn’t!

Our “plans” sort of separated after a while; Mayo went off to do an Open Water Diving course, however due to a cold she could not complete it. Yes - Caribbean nights can get chilly - trust us! She’s happy to receive some comforting messages from you guys though ;) René (that’s me!) on the other hand did another six good dives at the Turneffe Atoll, the famous Blue Hole and some other keys (or cayes…). Yep - the diving counter has really started rolling now! :)

Right now we’re off to the jungle again, back on the mainland (in the hills, even…). Our main “concern” at the time being is where we should be celebrating Mayo’s birthday (Jan 27 people - don’t forget! ;))! Any suggestions are welcome or course! And again, enjoy the pictures and to all you guys in Northern America and Europe - good luck with the weather!

Take care!

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Our house! ("on the middle of the beach")

Our view!

Rene's hammock + content!

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So here´s yet another short update on my travels… and the very first post under the Honduras part of this site! So far I´ve been pretty much bouncing up and down the country, but with good reasons for doing so ;) First took straight off to Utila to go on a diving trip, however I got a nice little sinus-infection (which obviously sounds worse than it is!) so I couldn´t go out. Snorkeling was fun though… and so was the general atmosphere on the island. Anyway, there´s sufficient reason to go back once I (finally!) get my physique sorted out!

Leaving Utila appeared to be tricky as the number of ferries leaving the island was limited due to a rough sea, anyway I made it on time and went to Copan to see the famous Copan Ruins. I felt these were impressive enough to publish a series of pics for, so have fun watching below. Also tried out my cowboy-skills by going horseback riding in the hills around town. It sure is fun, but I guess they´d better given me a donkey ;)

So far I haven´t yet decided what´s up next; probably I´ll go travel around Honduras and see whether I can finally make it to the east coast… weather permitting! There´s still lots of fun stuff to do around here though so I might just as well decide on the spot, which means tomorrow morning when I wake up ;) I´ll do my best to keep you posted, and will try to keep posting more pics as long as this remains to be possible!

Se cuida!!

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Yet another one... can´t get enough of these!

Nice Mayan cartoons - Copan Ruinas

´Stadium´... or actually a religious centre

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