We took a taxi up to the
Jungle River Lodge on the Rio Cangrejal in the rainforest of the coast of Honduras. This rustic lodge offers eco adventure tours, including rafting, hiking, and canopy zip line tours. After checking in and signing up for a Zip line tour the next day, we went down to the river and thought about swimming but instead we all decided on a walk along the road through the jungle. Pa' and I had a great view of the jungle scenery from Turgay's pocket. There are many species of birds in this part of the jungle and we spent a long time watching them, especially a certain bird which has a technique for whistling that involves swinging upside down around a tree branch. We returned to the lodge when we all ralized that Pa' was no longer in the pocket with me, Amy and Turgay spent several minutes backtracking in order to find him again. He was in the road not much worse for the adventure only a little dusty.
Back safe and sound at the lodge in the evening Amy and Turgay enjoyed a set menu for dinner that everyone ate together, family style. It was here after dinner, that Amy finally declared all out war on ants. She had been battling her conscience about killing the ants that were continuously taking up residence in her backpack and had been shaking them out and brushing them off but not killing them. That was until, on the way to their room that night two very large ants bit her toe. This was it, the last straw and now there is no ant in her hotel room or luggage that is safe from her wrath. The next morning after breakfast Amy and Turgay went zip-lining. For those unfamiliar with zip-lines, they are steel cables suspended between two platforms; here
those platforms are in the jungle canopy. There is a trolley from which a person (zipist) is suspended by a line attached to a harness. After locking onto the trolley the zipist releases the cable and they proceed down to the next platform. It can be fast or really fast depending on the cable and how much you use your gloved hand as a brake. Amy and Turgay loved it, though Amy was a little nervous on the first and second zip-line. This zip line course consisted of nine platforms and eight cables the longest 20 meters in length crossing high over the river. After finishing the zip line tour which also included a hike in the jungle and an introduction to the traditional medicinal properties of the plants there, they returned to the lodge and were lucky enough to catch a ride back into the city.
The ride ended up going to mall in La Ceiba, where after stocking up on essentials like bananas ad toothpaste Amy and Turgay headed to the bus station to board a bus for San Pedro Sula. We arrived into San Pedro Sula in the early evening and checked into our hotel which by chance was near the mall. After two months without a mall, two in one day was something of a novelty. We decided to have a look around and were lucky enough to find Turgay’s favorite tennis shoes, a discontinued model of New Balance, on sale at a sport shoe store. All in all though our time there was short we liked San Pedro Sula. We woke up very early the next morning to catch the bus to Managua, as they have no night buses in Central America we spent the entire day on the bus crossing the border into Nicaragua and arriving into Managua in the late afternoon. Only staying the night in Managua,
we decided to stay near the bus station. Although convenient it was not the nicest neighborhood and is probably not a good representation of the city. We woke up early the next morning and headed to the airport to board a small La Costena Airlines plane to Big Corn Island, we bought the tickets at the airport that morning and took the 40 min. flight to Bluefields where after a brief touchdown we flew another half and hour before touching down in Big Corn. A brief taxi ride to the dock and half an hour panga ride deposited us on the dock of Little Corn Island. A panga is a small open air speed boat used to transport people and goods. They can be bumpy and wet and this one was wet because the skies opened up on us as we pulled into the dock.
