It can’t be said often enough that the easiest – and sometimes the only – way to travel in La Moskitia is by water. The journey from Belem to Brus is simply achieved in this fashion: dawn start, blue skies, calm water. No worries.
When I arrive it is still early. Breakfast and exploration are my [...]
I am following in the inimitable footsteps of Cass and so I have a slew of handy hints and contacts which leads me to Belem where I spend a peaceful enough Semana Santa* trying to gather enough information to cross La Moskitia travelling on walking trails over the savannah between Brus Laguna and Mocoron, before [...]
Tagged honduras, la moskitiaDespite the dire warnings, the people I meet as I enter La Moskitia are, as always, curious, charming, helpful, amused.
Tagged fortuitous meetings, honduras, waterAfter I flee the sandfly infested shores of Trujillo, I head, alone again, into La Moskitia.
La Moskitia is a huge area in North Eastern Honduras consisting of large areas of uninhabited tropical jungle, savannah and swamp. The wide flung communities are interlinked by canoe transport on a complex system of rivers and lagoons that leave [...]
An series of major tragedies and minor disasters, that are not mine to share, cause our collective vision of a shared La Moskitia single track adventure to unravel at Casa Kiwi outside Trujillo.
Tagged friends, honduras, things breakI can’t remember when Kelly first wrote to me but by the time it looks like we will finally meet an extensive correspondence between us already exists. When I leave my friend Lindsey in El Salvador it is to meet Kelly, who is travelling with her partner, Kurt. I set off with around five days [...]
Tagged bike bling, dirt roads, food, friends, hondurasI’ve been lagging on the blogging front, for some time, I know. It’s not that I don’t want to keep it up to date but the further into Central America I go the harder it is to find good internet connections.
Right now I’m heading into the back country of Honduras so there may be some [...]
I whizz into Santa Ana, El Salvador’s second largest city, slightly ahead of schedule and spend most a of day waiting for Lindsey to turn up on the bus. It’s a hot humid place of bustling markets. The next morning we explore the centre a little.
Hanging out with friend always seems to invovle a lot [...]
I haven’t really been intending to go to El Salvador but a dear friend of mine who usually lives in Prague is currently travelling in Central America and she manages to convince me to pedal in that direction to see her. We agree to meet in Santa Ana and spend a few days by the [...]
Tagged el salvador, people