Sunday, May 12, 2013

Jungle Trek Day 3

Up early, shortly after 6:00am. I had to poop really bad. Tracy did to.

Tracy and I hiked to the bathroom area together and pooped together. How romantic.

Packed up camp around 8:30 and back to Omega around noonish. We stopped at the national park office on the way down for 30 minutes, I thought we were waiting for a pickup from Omega tours, but after 30 minutes, we donned our backpacks again and walked back to the lodge. Lots of people hanging out at the lodge this afternoon.

I jumped in the pool, then showered and wrote in my journal.

Just a 2 minute walk down the road from Omega is a B&B run by a woman (Karen) from Saskatchewan. She's been in Honduras for 20 years, bought a big piece of land, built a very nice B&B (Casa Cangrejal, http://www.casacangrejal.com/index.html) and that's what she does now. She's got no one staying at her place right now so she comes up to Omega and visits. Later in the afternoon we headed to her place, she showed us around and I went on a short hike on her property to try and do some bird watching, but to no avail. She was saying that the lodges here (owned by foreigners) try to do a lot for the local villages up and down the valley. Toys, supplies, repairing schools, and what have you.

Headed back to Omega for supper. Around 8:30, went back to Karen's place, as the Omega rafting guide, a guy from New Zealand was going to be there and we were going to play some pool. They were not around though, so I used their internet for a bit, then we headed back to Omega and chatted up the bartender girl. She's in her early 20's, from Tegucigalpa and being a bartender at Omega is her second job. She's very intelligent and wants to go to university tto study law, but she probably won't get that opportunity, as I guess her dad won't allow her to.

1 comment:

  1. Regarding the first two sentences - too much information, thank you.

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