This was the journey i was not looking forward to. After leaving Roatan it was our intention to head south, all the way through Honduras and start out tour of Nicaragua. All in all this would take us 2 days and cover alot of miles.
We left our little cabin on Roatan in the early hours of the morning, got a taxi to the port and boarded the ferry. This time i took only 1 tablet and felt a little more human, but still managed to sleep for the 1.5 hour journey back to the main land. On arriving in La Ceiba we took a short taxi to the bus station and bought a ticket for the first leg. This was heading back to San Pedro Sula, the main bus hub for Honduras. This was relatively painless and took only 3.5 hours.
From here we trawled through the massive bus station to try and find a bus company that would take us all the way through Honduras, over the border crossing and down to Leon. Luckily we enrolled the help of some local Hondurans by standing and looking gormless in the middles of the terminal. It worked and before long we found the offices for Tica Bus.
We bought our tickets and struggled to comprehend that the man behind the counter was saying that we had to be there at 04:15 am the next morning. Sorry, that´s 4:15 AM, ie very early morning - bugger !
So with tickets purchased, we set about trying to find a place to sleep for the night. San Pedro Sula is not exactly one of the nicest places, but we found a typcial "city hostel". Needless to say, it was a bit like a fortress, but it was safe and we had a place to stay.
The next morning we were awake at 3:30am and got a taxi back to the bus terminal. We found our coach and settled in for the 14 hour journey ahead. To be fair it was a relatively easy journey, just long and hot. We stopped briefly in the sprawling capital Tegucigalpa, then on south to the border crossing.
The crossing was ok, if not a long drawn out process that took a good 1.5 hours. We finally made it to Leon at about 5pm and got a nice hostel.
A long day, but one without any dramas. Tomorrow we exploe Nicaragua.
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