Loose Bowels

We made our way out of Parque Imposible up to an area called Ruta De Las Flore, route of the flowers. I can't recall seeing a whole lot of flowers, but there were some pretty nice towns with beautiful surroundings along the way. We made friends with Frankie in the town of Ataco, he was working for the guy who owned the hotel we were staying out. After getting to know Frankie a little bit, we learned some of his interests were traveling around Central America, drinking large amounts of vodka, and getting into machete fights. His last interest was found out by our friend Morgan when he had a little encounter with the police and they ran Frankies background, homicide. But no worries, he was found innocent. Well, he really did kill the guy, but it was in self defense. He told us all about his time in prison, 50 people to a room, shitting in a bucket, getting a black bag over his had and being hit with nightclubs in an effort to get him to sign a false confession. Ah, Frankie. Heres us havin' a few drinks with the man, and a church in Ataco

Then we checked out Tazumal, Mayan ruins

After looking over the ruins, we spent the night in a city called Santa Ana. The first hotel we looked at, the guy asked us how many hours we needed the room for. We moved on. The place we did decide to stay in had to be doused in raid before we entered, and i'm pretty sure I got bitten by bed bugs. We headed out in the morning to cross into Guatemala and then into Honduras to visit Copan, a huge Mayan Archealogical site. The border crossings were oddly very easy, not much security or people really watching. You could easily cross right through without anyone even saying anything to you. Kind of odd for countries that have armed guards for every store, bank and restaurant. Copan was awesome, here are some pics of it.

The actual city of Copan was really nice so we ended up staying a little longer than expected. We're in Antigua, Guatemala now, a beautifully preserved colonial city. Lots of old building and ruins to look at, and its surrounded by volcanoes to hike up. Plus free camping at the tourist Police Station, amazing.