Roatan (Bay Islands), Honduras

I'm currently in Roatan, which is the largest of the Bay Islands in Honduras. We've been in Honduras now for 3 nights, with our first stop being in Copan. After a long travel day (luckily in a nice minivan) we arrived in Copan, and our hotel was in the centre of the small town. The town is about a 15 minute walk to the ruins of Copan, which is where we went in the morning of our full day there.

The ruins of Copan were great to see, although quite different to that of Tikal. They weren't on the grand scale of Tikal and took only about 2 hours to tour. The designs and carvings are much more intricate though, which I really liked. We were also able to see up close the Scarlet Macaw, which is Honduras' national bird.

Scarlet Macaw

Copan ruins

After the ruins I spent the rest of the day just relaxing around the hotel and the town. The next day was a very long travel day to Roatan, where we are now. We had a 7 hour or so drive to the port, and then a ferry to the island which was just under 2 hours. The water is really rough at the moment, so the ferry ride was not fun for me - as soon as we started they came around and gave everyone sick bags! We arrived on the island and after a quick stop at a supermarket (so exciting to go to a proper supermarket again!) we arrived at the hotel. We are staying in the West End, which has lots of restaurants and bars, although you can't sunbathe on the beach here as it isn't big enough.

Today we took a water taxi to the beach, where we spent most of the day. The weather isn't great here, and the boat nearly went over with some of the waves on the way there! After some pretty heavy rain we were able to enjoy the sun and beach for a couple of hours.

We've got another full day here tomorrow, then we are going back to the mainland of Honduras before heading for Nicaragua!