The day we left Lake Atitlan to mission it across the border to the small town of Copán Ruinas in Honduras, also happened to be our 18 month anniversary of travelling. And how did we choose to spend it? Travelling across country for 12 hours whilst constantly changing modes of transport. Rather fitting way to celebrate actually! Copán Ruinas is conveniently located across the border from Guatemala, so we spent just a couple of nights here to visit the Copán ruins - the lucky last on a long list we'd already visited. It was probably one of the smaller ruins we've visited, but some of the structures, particularly some of the intricately carved stone stela's, were very well preserved. There were bugger all people there on the day we visited, so it was nice to be able to leisurely walk around in the relative peace and quiet. Once we'd done that though it was time to move on again. We actually went to the island of Utila next but that's a separate blog all on it's own, so because I have editorial discretion and creative license, you shall now hear about our brief stop in Lake Yojoa.
Yojoa is the largest natural lake in Honduras and is a popular spot for nature lovers and fishing enthusiasts. However, we only stayed for one night and didn't even see the lake. Bad tourists. We were more interested in checking out the Pulhapanzak Waterfall, the largest in the country, which was about 25km north of the lake from where we were staying. It's kind of off the beaten track, but it's still popular with local and foreign tourists. In fact, there were a lot more locals there the day we visited cooling off in the swimming areas, but we were all about the waterfall. You can view it from above or below, but we wanted to make the most of it so we got a guide to take us behind the waterfall to get the full experience. We're glad we did too, as it was pretty incredible. We don't usually like having to pay for guides as we often think we can do it just as easily ourselves. This was not one of those occasions. He knew exactly where to step and hold on to avoid being washed away by the ridiculously powerful water crashing down on us and making it impossible to see where we were going. It was pretty slippery and awkward at times, but totally worth it to get right amongst it, and a perfect way to cool off.
Yojoa is the largest natural lake in Honduras and is a popular spot for nature lovers and fishing enthusiasts. However, we only stayed for one night and didn't even see the lake. Bad tourists. We were more interested in checking out the Pulhapanzak Waterfall, the largest in the country, which was about 25km north of the lake from where we were staying. It's kind of off the beaten track, but it's still popular with local and foreign tourists. In fact, there were a lot more locals there the day we visited cooling off in the swimming areas, but we were all about the waterfall. You can view it from above or below, but we wanted to make the most of it so we got a guide to take us behind the waterfall to get the full experience. We're glad we did too, as it was pretty incredible. We don't usually like having to pay for guides as we often think we can do it just as easily ourselves. This was not one of those occasions. He knew exactly where to step and hold on to avoid being washed away by the ridiculously powerful water crashing down on us and making it impossible to see where we were going. It was pretty slippery and awkward at times, but totally worth it to get right amongst it, and a perfect way to cool off.
Good to see you two are still traveling. Good times
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