Leon cont...

Fallen Madonna with ......?

that evening there was a very large wedding in the cathedral will all the wealthy people of Leon present

a string quartet and choristers filled the cathedral with sound

there was a carnival going on outside in the Parque Central

the bride arrives

there's a lot of money being spent here

our hotel (The Balconies)

three wise travellers?

San Cristobel our last Nicaraguan volcano

Honduras

another day..another country..
at the Nicaragua - Honduras border

Geoff barters with the money changers

Honduran landscape

a slightly bizarre  lunch stop...the ostrich's weren't on the menu

superloo?

Tegucigalpa

The capital of Honduras

we sat and drank coffee in the main square Plaza Morazan.  This was a very different city, with a slight edge to it.

we ate out here, once we'd persuaded the security guard on the door to let us in (and bribed him to let us out)

Stevie Wonder?

the local beer

Day 18 - Drive/ferry to Roatan

We drove cross-country today, to the northern town of La Ceiba on the Caribbean coast.
From here we tool a ferry across to the beautiful Bay Islands, home to some of the
best diving and snorkelling in the Caribbean.
The 3 islands lying some 50km off the Honduran coast are a marine wonderland,
with reefs that teem with life.

one of our many Texaco pit-stops

Christmas is a big thing in Central America

they were all very clean and well managed with good food and spotless toilets

Kairen hitches a lift
(what was really funny is that a taxi stopped for her immediately after this photo was taken)

Stu's turned to the drink!

Ganes doesn't look well and this was before the waves got to her

it's a big 430 seater catamaran

he's smiling, but it was a really rough 50km crossing

Roatan

It was Peter's 60th birthday today so we celebrated with champagne

Cecile

we had a nice meal at The Lighthouse

Edgar (barman) and Kairen

Peter's happy!

frozen Margarita