Endless Travelling

We woke up the next day and couldn't move our legs. We very slowly made our way towards the dock when we foud out that there was a bus leavng at 9 am to Guatemala cty, exaclty where we wanted to go, so we doubled back and walked up the hill to the bus stop. Our 9 am bus left at 10 and we were bumpily on our way to the capital.

For the next 3 days we travlelled nonstop, mostly on the old US school buses that dominate Central American public transport. We've been so unbelievably lucky with the buses, all of them leaving witin 5 min of us arriving (except for the 1st one). So we got our connection at Guatemala City for Chiquimula, a town close to the border, where we spent the night. Early the next day we took the bus to the border and crossed into Honduras where we were on our way to our last Mayan ruins of Copan.

Arriving in Copan Ruinas at 12 we ate burritos that were bigger than our arms and then walked to the Archaeologcal site. Well, about halfway there it started raining hard, so we ran back to get our rain gear and visited the ruins during the downpour. The good thing is that we had it all to ourselves and it was very mysterious seing it in the rain. Its a lot smaller than other sites but is enveloped by rainforest just like Palenque. After exploring the site for 2 hours (and 15 USD!!) we took the chicken bus to La Entrada where we changed for the supposedly nice colonial town of Gracias, where we spent the night. Well, that wasn't the best idea cuz it turned out that there were no buses to Teguchigalpa, the capital of Honduras, so we had to retrace ur steps for 2 hours to La Entrada and from there take the 'direct' bus to Tegu.

At this point we just wanted to cross the country as fast as possible so we could get to Nicaragua. Well, here direct buses are everything but direct, and we had to go all the way to the north of the country for 4 hours and then all the way south again to reach the capital. When we arrived we quickly got a connection to Danli, a border town with Nicaragua and we spent the night in the Hotel Las Vegas there. Early again the next morning we set off for Nicaragua, taking a small bus to the border, then a superbus (with broken aircon, of course) to Managua and finally arriving in Granada, our destination, at 2 pm.