Meet me in La Ceiba

After two morning dives, I raced to the 2pm ferry to meet Talor in La Ceiba. We´d agreed to meet up at 4pm at Cafe Giarre, which as luck would have it, was closed. At least the ice cream store next to it was open, and Talor was waiting for me there as I got out of the cab. It was nice to have a break and be on our own for a little while, but it was great to be back together as well.

We booked into the Banana Republic Guest House, with a large room with balcony overlooking a busy street. The house is a bit run down, and the shower didn´t work so well, but the room was very nice and only$13/night, so we were quite pleased. We also found and excellent local fast food place, Super Baleadas, just around the corner. Baleadas are Honduran street food, much like a californian style burrito, except on a much thicker flour tortilla (grilled as you watch), but folded over more like an enormous soft taco. They are really good, and really cheap. There is a place across the street selling ice cold 60 cent beers as well - a perfect set up. La Ceiba is nice, but we weren´t in love with it, no matter how good the baleadas were. It´s a fairly large city, and the jumping off point for the Bay Islands, but we didn´t find it too compelling.

During our stay in La Ceiba, we pondered our next step in the trip. We were torn between continuing southeast in the wilderness of La Moskitia (Honduras´s version of the Amazon, with virgin rain forest jungle, wildlife, etc.), or heading west to Tegulcigapa and down into Nicaragua from there. In the end, we decided to test our off-the-beaten-track travel skills and push down into La Moskitia. The first step for that was to head down to Trujillo (so we thought), and so we were off after just a few days in La Ceiba.