I’ve seen my first sunrise of the entire trip! As much as I love the  peacefulness of  early mornings I can’t seem to get up in time to enjoy them unless I have to.  Today I wanted to get across the Nicaragua – Honduras border before the crowds. ($3 to leave and $3 to enter)

I was lucky and found an empty van going to Tegucigalpa to pick up a group from Gap Tours.  The trip was about 8 hours but it was a beautiful ride. As we drove through Nicaragua just about every time I looked out the window I wanted to take a picture. It seemed there was always one of the country’s many volcanoes standing at attention over the landscape. Not to mention the livestock, carts and horses and other interesting transportation that share the road.

Next I head to the port city of La Ceiba, Honduras. I’ve been there before because it’s where you catch the ferry to the Bay Islands. I will be there two days until I catch a boat for the Marine Biological Reserve of Cayos Cochinos. Where there’s only one hotel on the island and the main draw is the diving. This is the  last beach of my 3 month Central America trip and I expect it to be a highlight.