Friday, August 7, 2009

Wow, Talk About a Trip!

Well, the past two and a half weeks I have been traveling around Honduras with two amazing friends, Jenna and Faith, doing about every activity imaginable! We went into the jungle in La Ceiba to go white water rafting and horseback riding. We actually ended up doing two rafting trips, one which were class 3 and 4 rapids and another which were class 4 and 5 (intense!)! We then headed off to an island in the Caribbean called Utila where we went through a four day coarse to become certified scuba divers! After, we headed off to Copan where we walked through Mayan ruins and then did zip lining. Then, since we had an extra day and we were so close to Guatemala, we decided to take a six hour bus ride to hike a volcano! And all along the way we met amazing and crazy people from all over the world! It was such an incredible experience and something that I will remember for the rest of my life!



Our jungle cabin in La Ceiba





































Getting instructions for our first white water rafting trip!















First we jumped off some rocks on a river hike and then got in the boat for rafting!































We lost Faith on this one! (Well, we lost her from the boat I mean!!)












Our guide, Sonny, trying to flip our boat! Ha, nice try!























We were all told to go to the front of the raft and paddle full on toward this rapid! I'm not sure Jenna quite enjoyed it, but Sonny did!






































Horseback riding on the beach, amazing!!































Class 5 rapids, here we come!!





















We had a couple scary moments, but it was so fun!
















Our guides Janet and Daniel!












The beautiful Caribbean





























Scuba diving













































We actually went back to La Ceiba for a day on our way to Copan and we went rock jumping. It was very high.





















The Mayan ruins at Copan






























Zip lining in Copan













Jenna doing the Superman!
Our day trip to Guatemala to hike the volcano. It was raining the whole way up and we had to turn around five minutes from the top because we couldn't see a thing!!! Sad day! The rain was hitting the lava and producing a thick cloud of steam so there was absolutely no visibility. But it was still a blast and on the way down the clouds cleared a little and we could see some of the lava flowing down the side! Still worth it!