Our last Visa Run kicked off with
me and Robbie as per usual getting a very early and very expensive ferry ride
to La Ceiba followed by the bus to San Pedro. There we met Olivia and Alanna
and made our way down to Copan Ruinas for the night where we met Bryony who’d
been waiting there almost all day!
The next day involved a lot of
buses as we made the trek from Copan to Antigua in Guatemala. We arrived at
about 7pm after we’d tried to make it to Lago de Atitlan (we were literally
running around Guatemala City like headless chickens trying to get to the
bus!). We stayed in a great hostel in Antigua and met some really nice people
who took us out so we could get to know the city a bit and showed us all the
good places to go. We also went to a funfair which was hilarious and went on
the bumper cars! The markets in Antigua are amazing and we got some amazing
bargains in a second hand market, like jumpers, coats and sweats for 1 quetzal
which is about 12 pence.
After Antigua we made our way to
Lago de Atitlan which is a really beautiful lake with lots of small towns
dotted around it. We spent our time chilling out, swimming in the lake, and as
is normal with our group, eating. We also met Magda and Belle at the lake which
was really nice because I haven’t spent much time with them at all this year.
We then made our way to Guatemala
City to try and sort out our Visas at the migration office. We’d been told by a
couple of people this was the way to renew our Visas. However when we got to
the office they told us either we had to leave our passports for a week, or go
to Mexico. So we went for the second option and got on a bus to the Mexican
border. After 7 hours in the bus we arrived at the border at about 11pm,
crossed the border, sat around in Mexico for about 40 minutes, crossed back in
to Guatemala and got the next bus (at 2.30am) to Guatemala City. A bit of an
experience but at least we didn’t have to pay for accommodation that night!
We got to Guatemala City early in
the morning and got straight on another bus to San Salvador and then another
down to Playa El Tunco, one of our favourite places from travelling. There we
met a few nice people from Canada, Australia and even a couple from England. We
spent the time there by the pool and at the beach, though the sea was a bit
rough to swim in!
We made our way back to Roatan
via a few buses and got back here on Monday morning (and ran up to the house
and got changed and were teaching 20 minutes after we got back!) ready for our
last stint on the island before we head back home to the UK on the 1st
August!
Sorry for the lack of pictures but I didn't actually take any - we had Bryony as the official photographer so she'll have lots of great snaps I'm sure!
See you all very soon,
Sam xx
