We caught the ferry back to La Ceiba, taxi shared to the bus station
and hopped in a bus to San Pedro Sula where we stayed in Hostel
Tamarindo. We popped our for food - Spanish fail. Couldn't read the
menu and ended up with a plate of fried plantain with kebab style
stuff on top.
Woke up at 4:15 am to catch a bus to Rio Dulce. All we knew, from
google searching and blog write-ups, was that the bus company was
called Fuente Del Norte. Sure enough, Fuente Del Norte had buses into
Guatemala across that northern border, we caught the 5:30 bus. Border
crossing was easy, stated on the bus but jumped off in Guatemala to
get passport stamp. Had to change buses in Morales. We were in Rio
Dulce by 10:30. Rio Dulce is a river that cones in from the Caribbean
and opens out into Lake Izabal. They say it is the safest place in the
caribbean to keep your boat in hurricane season, as a result there is
a substantial international community based here, or their boats are
based here anyway. We stayed in a hotel across the bay from the main
town, you could only get there by boat- Hacienda Tijax. It was all
built on stilts with wooden walkways linking all the buildings together.
Rio Dulce is a tiny town, crazy. We went by collectivo to a thermal
waterfall. Cold river with a scorching hot waterfall cascading into it
- almost too hot to stand under! The next morning we went to see the
old Spanish Fort, El Castillo de San Felipe - built in 1652 to keep
pirates out, pictures of Johnny Depp around the place.
We jumped on another Fuente Del Norte bus bound for Flores, the
jumping off point for Tikal. Very hot bus, we stood for about half the
4 hour trip. Beautiful countryside - very lush and green.
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