Hi everybody!
We are now in Honduras, but first I will write about our last day in Antigua.
We had to get up at five in the morning to catch a bus to the bottom of the Pacaya Volcano. From there we took a hard one and a half hour hike to the top of the volcano(well not to the top-top but close enough). I think the only reason we made it to the top was because a couple guys on horses kept on following us asking is if we wanted a ride. They seemed to think that we couldn't make it to the top, and we wanted to prove them wrong. At the last part of the hike we were clambering over a huge area of lava rocks that made mini avalanches when you took a step. At the top we saw molten lava and you could stand less then a foot away from it if you could bear the heat. We got to roast marshmallows over the hotspots at the top. It was then another hour hike down, though it wasn't nearly as bad.
The next day we had to get up at three (after gettting up at five the day before)to catch a six hour bus to Copan (the town not the ruins)in Honduras. Two hours in we learned that Colin and I had diarrhea and it was not a fun rest of the trip. We had planned to go to the Copan ruins the next day, but while I was better by then, Colin started puking, had terrible stomach aches, and even worse diarrhea. Mom came down with it too. Dad and I left a sick Mom and Colin at the hotel and went zip-lining. I got kind of scared when we asked one of the zipline workers how high up the ziplines went and they said 3 thousand feet (I realized a few minutes later that he meant 3 hundred feet but it was scary at the time). It was sooooooooooooo cool. It felt like you were flying. You just had to try to forget how high up you were and enjoy the ride.
The next day (today) we were all feeling better, so we went to see the Copan ruins. They were pretty spectacular. We got to see the ball court, the hieroglyphic stairs, and climb to the top off the tallest pyramid. I think my favorite was the hieroglyphic stairs. There was also a pyramid where the whole front was made to look like a serpent and the stairway was its tongue.
I hope to post soon but I don't know that there will be internet at our next hostel. Please comment.
Goodbye!
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Hi Madeleine,
ReplyDeleteI just got caught up on all your posts. Sounds like you're having a real adventure. Tell your mom to email when you post and let us know.
Madeleine, this sounds really cool. I hope there will be pictures of the pyramid and the hieroglyphic stairs. What has been your favorite part of the trip so far?
ReplyDeleteHi Mad! It's Trixie. I know 2 girls who are from Honduras. Did colin or your mom fall in the volcano and thats why they were sick? or did they just inhale poison fumes? While you were roasting marshmallows with air, we got 2-3 ft of snow, and 7 days off. My boots have holes in them, I have no gloves,and now I want a marshmallow. Speaking of "gloves", there are 2 new Hive books that I didn't know about. I love zip-lining, don't you? Yesterday, on 1 of our SNOWDAYS, we made funnel cake and beignets. It was REALLY GOOD. My school is adding 8 min on every day to get rid of the snow days. I wonder how much work we'll actually get done........
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