Beep, beep, beep the alarm went at 1:15am. We slowly woke up and got ready for our 2:00 shuttle to El Salvador 🇸🇻. We waited on the street for about 30 minutes before the owner of hostel said it was un safe on the streets, because someone got murdered two blocks away from our hostel that night!! So we waited until the shuttle arrived at 3:00(one hour delay).
In our shuttle for our 3:00 photo
In the shuttle there wasn’t many people so I could lie down and have a sleep 😴. We arrived at the Nicaragua 🇳🇮 – Honduras ðŸ‡ðŸ‡³ border at around 6am. It only took us 30 minutes to get across the border. With our passports stamped we got back on the shuttle and headed into dangerous Honduras ðŸ‡ðŸ‡³. At about 7:30am we changed drivers and continued to El Salvador 🇸🇻. At about 8am we arrived at the Honduras ðŸ‡ðŸ‡³ x El Salvador 🇸🇻 border. We got out of the shuttle and got our Honduras ðŸ‡ðŸ‡³ exit stamp.
The driver drove the shuttle across the border bridge and talked to a policeman with a machine gun for a long time. The driver then said we could not go across the border. We tried 4 more times but the guard would not let us go across in to El Salvador 🇸🇻 (so I have basically been to El Salvador 5 times!!) After a long time discussion there were three choices; 1. We could either drive another 4 hours to get to another border 2. We could walk across the border and wait for him to come over 3. To take a “chicken” bus to our destination. We chose number 2 so we walked across the border and got our El Salvador 🇸🇻 entry stamp. We waited on the other side of the border.
FINALLY after FOUR HOURS of waiting the driver came and picked us up!!!!!
Walking across the border !!
We drove on for another 3 hours to drop some people off.we got there at about 4pm. Our destination was another 1 hour away. We got to our place at 5 and spent 2 hours looking for a hostel. Finally we made the choice to go to Antigua Guatemala 🇬🇹 (Which was 5 hours away)because the shuttle was going there anyway, and the place we were going was a gang place. We decided to check one last hostel. It was the grossest place ever. But we stayed there anyway.
A total of 17 HOURS!!!!,
JAKE
Jakey, Jakey, I’m all for a bit of excitement on your travels, but I think you may have overdone it this time! You get yourselves back to Guatemala and take care, ok? This is your British Auntie/ex travel journalist speaking… 😉 Seriously, looks like you’ve been having an AMAZING time. I’m trying to encourage Pog to get involved on the blog before you get back to NZ. We’ve both been following what you’ve been getting up to. The little Corneys say hi. Look after yourselves x x x x