13/09/04- 16/09/04 La Ceiba

Despite all four of us having horrible hangovers we made up in time for the early morning boat back to the mainland and even spent the rest of the day checking out tour operators around the area.

Yesterday we took a very leisurely trip by train and then boat into the jungle in order to see a spot of wildlife, we managed to catch a glimpse of a manatee, a few howler monkeys, loads of birds and thousands of bugs, but no crocodiles. It was very beautiful and, as we were the only boat on the river, really peaceful, but having been completely spoilt by seeing so much wildlife under the water it was a little disappointing, but not that surprising, that we didn't see as much from above.

Today we have just come back from white water rafting, which was really good fun and not as dangerous as I was lead to believe, according to the guide we managed a class 5 rapid, which is quite fast. We all got soaked but not submerged which is nice.

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We travel in style- this was the train we took to go to the Manatee reserve where they were so reserved they made no appearance at all.

This is a picture of us just before we went sky diving for the last time:






And that was me being dragged away by a concerned reader of this blog who thinks there are too many pictures of me in it. If you tilt your monitor 90 degrees clockwise the picture will slide down and you can see who it is.

I´ll tell you what though- that white water rafting was really too easy- it was about 5% checking out the rapid bits and going throught them (not too bad) and 98% drifting down river through spectacular scenery- can't complain though. Oh the extra 3% is because the raft guide man is allergic to stings and was stung by a wasp just before the big rapid so it's to compensate for swelling/ worry.

I'll tell you something else- every shop imaginable in La Ceiba has a armed guard outside it- from burger bars to tour operators. Also Selfridges if you can imagine that there- they'd have three at least though.