Crossed the border to Honduras. For better or worse

Phew! What a day it has been. I left the dynamic beach city of Livingston located on the eastern coast of Guatemala and after one boat, one taxi, one chicken bus, two shuttles, a short walk over the honduras border and finally one last collective shuttle ride, I made it the city of Copan, Honduras. My journey in Guatemala has come to an end an new adventure begins here in guatemala. Livingston was an interesting town. Although there really werent beaches to swim on, it was interesting to see how different the ppl in livingston are in comparison to the rest of guatemalan. They{re more like carribean islanders and jamaican more than anything else. Thursday night was a blast but a joke at the same time. After grabbing some kick ass coffee at the hotel rosada which by the way was named the best coffee in town by the lonely planet bible, I headed back to my hostel the hostel iguana to grab dinner and city and drink beer with the fellow hostelers. What turned out to be simply a cerveza and getting to know other travelers turned out to be a drunk fest and I drank wayyyy too much. At some point during the night, the drinking games took such an extreme turn and it became way to sexual than I really felt like handling. The game played was Never have I ever, however it was the sex version of it. Some of the things being said were just way too extreme for the imagination. Finally after lots of beers and shots of rum and more beers, i made it to my cabin to catch some zzzs knowing a hangover was waiting for me the next morning. I was right the next morning, as i got off to a late start. Lunch was great yesterday. Supringly theres a restaurant in town owned by a lady from indian decent that is known for her indian chicken and fish currys. The fish was pretty good for central american standards considering it was the local fish with local ingrediants and very tasty. I even had the iced chai which was great.

I knew I could stand another night of partying my ass off. It{s like u get dragged into it. Avoiding the certain, I went to bed early last night amidst the sounds of drunken laughter from my bed. I woke up this morning and headed off to puerto barrios and port located south of livingston. Here I caught a chicken bus to Chikamulas located just southeast of guatema city. Lined with coconut, pineapple trees i really couldn{t complain about the view. Chikamulas was interesting in that once again i stepped out of the bus not knowing where the fuck i was. I gotta give props to the guatemala lonely planet guide book as I was able to pretend i knew what the hell was going on asking for the specific bus and the bus station i had to get to to go to the guatemalan border city. Despite constant promises from the hawkers that there were no buses at 330 headed to border, i called their bluff and walked away from teh crowd. Alas came a shuttle headed to the border. I hopped on the collective shuttle and made it a city where i had to change shuttles again to get to the border town. It was here that I made the 50 meter dance across a huge gate into honduras. That{s after crossing guatemalan immigration and hondruas immigration. fun stuff. i am now in copan ruinas located just south of the guatemalan border. this is a charming city similar to antigua. Copan is known for it{s mayan carvings and the plan is to explore the mayan artwork a bit.

The plan from here is a little crazy, as at the border i was told my tourist visa for guatemala which includes entry into guateamala, hondruas, nicaragua is going to run out october 26th. can u believe i{ve been here for 90 days. Instead of trying to deal with visa issues, i might cross over to costa rica and then cross back and get back to honduras making my tourist visa renew automatically. i love loop holes in the system. well see what happens.. i finally checked into my hotel after lots of haggling with hawkers trying to get me to stay at their hotel. I actually gave into one of them bc it was getting dark and i was clueless. i don{t even know what the currency exchange rate is right now... maybe i should check that right now. well the hotel looks decent and i saw some tourists. so things should be okay. at least for now...