Wahoouu ok...Well I am now in Costa Rica in San Jose! Yeah I know it's far from the Volcanoes in the Lake of Attitlan it's a long story!!

Here it goes... After the magnifique landscape of Guatelema we decided to cross Honduras passing by the famous ruins of Copan. It took us a day of travelling sleeping in little towns on our way to the boarder. Once in Honduras one first thing we realized is how people are more metizos than in Guatemala where the indigenous are still making most of the country's population which for sure is a reason why it is still so culturally unique! Bref, we visited copans'ruins which are nice for their impressive carving still very well maintained. Even though it was under the rain the visit and discovering of the ruins was nice beside this we saw impressive colored parrots. On the same day we continued crossing the country going in its center in Gracias, a supposed nice little colonial town, which should bring us closer to the Capital Tegucigialpa. We arrived at night in this lost and dead little town in which the roads where so unpaved that it seemed like it had just been going through war! The next day we woke up early enough to catch the first bus at 6:00 but...There were none! We found out that our lonely travel was a little bit outdated and that there were no transport to the capital from this town...=( we had to go three hours back on the winding roads to come back to a bigger city where we were the day before! Last but not least we had to go all the way to the north of Honduras to San Pedro Sula using the only "highway" to reach finally in the afternoon after 12hours of old american "bluebird" school bus the capital! We took our energy to actually go forward a little bit more and go closer to the Nicaraguan boarder to pass the night and go on next day. In fact we reached our final destination for at least a few days, Granada, Nicaragua, on the 24th of August. There we stood one first day and the next it happened to be the big Cultural festival of Granada! The owners of our Hotel told us there were to be a sort of Bullrun mixed with Rodeo at the "Malicon" which is the shore of the lake. There we had a nice surprise of a very local type of fiesta, with only locals gathered in a oldish wooden arena...Once in it we had a real impression of being in the center of a movie! People drunk all around screeming at then even more drunk runner in the arena...The later having a few red rags to excite the bull. Actually the bull was entering the arena with a volunter to suffer on his back acting like a rodeo, and once trown away it was suddenly turning into more a running after the bull doing everything to excite him! We came back to the town center for the night envents which were all done by midnight! On the next day we took a boat to the island of Ometepe, a huge Island formed by two volcanoes, on this biggest lake in central america, the Nicaraguan Lake. After quite a lot of bus and boat and bus again we arrived in a lost little hostel which was during the Somosa dictatorship his week-end Hacienda. There we stood two nights enjoying the wildlife and impressive natural sites with natural pools, waterfalls, monkey islands, and imposive perfectly conic volcanoes.
We left on the 28th of August for Liberia in Costa Rica.
(this photo is us on the boat going to the Ometepe Island in Nicaragua)

OK so Here we are...It has been more than a month that I have been traveling! One week alone, two weeks with the family, one week with my sister and Alex, and since the 12th of August ALex and I have really started our trip through central America.

(first photo top right was in Tulum with my sister and the second one is Tulum still wild beach in Mexico just before Belize)

We 've been through Belize in which we stoped in Belize City, Dangriga and a small carribean Island (smaller than a soccer field) called Tobacco Island, located on the second biggest coral reef in the world. After that, we've crossed the country heading toward Tikal the biggest Mayan site situated in Northern Guatemala. We slept over in Flores a nice little town located on a beautifull lake. After visiting the ruins early in the morning at sunrise listening to the jungle waking up, we hanged around in Flores before taking the night bus to Guatemala city our objective being Antigua a nice little colonial town in southern Guatemala.
We passed a pretty horrible night but Antigua is worth the trip. We found a nice little guest house facing an impressive volcanoe in the city center. This colonial town is awesome and we've passed our afternoon visiting it.

On the 18th of August, we took the bus and traveled through the nice volcanic mountains to El Lago de Attitlan at 1400m of altitude. The climate since Antigua had drastically changed we were not anymore in our tropical rain forest like in TIkal or Belize but in the moutains with an average of 23 degrees, which is useless to say that was much more comfortable!! We arrived in Panajachel a touristic little town on this marvelous lake surrounded by volcanoes all covered by an impressively dense vegetation. On the afternoon we rented some bikes to visit the closest little towns which had been much more sportive than what we thought it would be! We resigned in renting those bike more than one day! ( yeah coz at the beggining we wanted to rent them for a week and to go around the lake with it!!!! but for realistic reasons we did not do it)

After a relaxing evening and a good night in a small hostel we took the boat and headed toward Santiago de Attitla an nice other little town on the other side of the lake in between the two highest volcanoes. We found an old guide on site who proposed us a tour for a few dollars. We followed him, dropped of our big bags at his place (really a small house, but thanks to that we could see in where what and how the locals leave). We than went on a 1 hour walk through the corn fields and the trash areas before reaching a road to the Mirador were we should have according to him an impressive view! We actually met a pickup on our way which made it easier as he was speeding ahead like crazy and Alex and I had somewhat little trouble to follow him =)) He was maybe 65 but had some incredible energy! We arrived just before the valley and the lake got covered with an very dense fog! Later in the afternoon we jumped on a ferry to rest for the night in the most famous lake town called San Pedro de Attitlan. There many Europeans hippies have established. In fact this town is perfect! Our night in a spacious room with a magnifique view on the lake, shower, kitchen and balcony was for 2€!! And everything is like that! Moreover the weather is all year long between 15 and 25 degree and there are plenty of activity all around! Indeed, next day we went on an excursion to climb the highest volcano of the lake culminating at 3020m high! The photo on the left is the view once at the top of the Volcanoe de San Pedro!