South America and South Africa

The last two days I stayed in the jungle close to La Ceiba. On Utila I bumped into Silvia, a German woman, who operates together with her husband a lodge on the Hondurian mainland for whitewater-rafting, horseriding, jungle hikes, mountain-biking, etc. Two days later I was on the ferry to La Ceiba.

The “Eco-Jungle-Lodge” is built in the jungle, has a lovely tropical garden (see photo page), a guesthouse with four rooms, three more upscale rooms with private baths, a little swimming-pool sourced with water from the creek, a decent restaurant and a nice little bar. While I was there I saw hummingbirds (Kolibris) and heard in the night all sounds of the jungle – quite special. Every now and then it happens that a tarantula falls down from the palmleave covered building on the table but thanks God not while I was there.

The first day I was the only guest and for most of the activities there is a minimum requirement of two pax. I did the jungle hike to a waterfall guided by Alejandro, a 69 years old Hondurian. Later that  day other guests arrived so that the next day there would be whitewater-rafting.

In total there were nine of us, three rafts and three guides. We picked up our life vests and helmets,wetsuits were not needed as the water was warm , and  went to Rio Cangrejal, which is quite special as it has massive boulders in its riverbed, some of those as big as multistory-houses. The first two hours we were whitewater-swimming upriver, some kind of canyoning but without a canyon. We were swimming in the current, climbing the boulders and jumping from the boulders back into the water, really great fun. Thereafter we entered the rafts and went downriver. Albeit it is summer in Honduras and hence not too much water it was far better then anything comparable I have done in Europe. I bet they would have never ever sent us through some of the rapids in Germany or Austria, particularly as two of the partipants from Guatemala couldn’t swim. Everybody survived and we all had lots of fun.

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