La Ceiba to Leon, Nicaragua

This is more for people who want to travel between the two cities, which is quite common. Honduras isn't the safest of places, and Capital cities are generally great places to avoid. We got a taxi to the La Ceiba bus terminal at 3:00am. Took a long bus (Christina) to Tegus (Honduras Capital), another bus to Choluteca (to the west) and then another collectivo to la frontera (the boarder). We were completely bombarded by people, and it was luxurious to have so much room for haggling, got a A/C bus for cheap, great day.

As the collectivo stopped at the boarder I noticed a plathora of horses! Oh no- I'm allergic, and they were everywhere! Michael, Rob and I jumped into the first Central American style Rickshaw and drove off. The boarder is so chilled, Rob waited with our bags while I got the passports stamped. As we crossed over the bridge the man who was cycling us across told us to say we are in transit from El Salvador and paid $6. There was no time to ask why, and I pulled the stupid "I don't speak any Spanish" told them what I was ordered to and had no worries going across. Don't know what that was on about, but it was all relaxed.

We continuously asked the guy how much he is charging us for this trip. "Just give me what you feel like"...ja, whatever. We almost arrived and he wanted 200 cordobas each ($9). Hahahaha, funny joke. There's no way he got that, gae him 50, and that was 20 more than I wanted to give him. It was a hard bargain but he could see we weren't going to budge. Plus I thought it was really amusing that he actually asked for that much, I was laughing and it was a losing battle for him.

The same bugger tried to get us to get in a collectivo to Leon over over 1000 cordobas. Oh my sack, what is he on?! We got a chicken bus for 40. Never trust those guys, and always take the breesy chicken buses! Please don't be a stupid tourist and give locals that much money, it's robbery and if it happens once, they will get naggy and annoying!