We, the group, left the hotel at 08.30 hours in a cramped minibus headed for Fronteros on the Dulce River then being ferried to the Tortuga Eco Lodge by 16.00 hours, the lodge being on the side of the river. I had a room to myself, and so did the others who were travelling as singles, so I thought I was very lucky. Maybe they all paid for a single room, I did not, so I was the only one left and thus had to have a room to myself for the whole trip.
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| Bridge across the river |
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| The Eco Lodge |
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| The bathroom with concrete bath |
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| The room veranda |
The following day there was a boat trip down the river and nearby lake to the town of Livingston where the hotel reminded me so much of the Cecil Hotel in Lae, Papua New Guinea. We were told that if a tourist was to stay in Livingston then they had to be off the streets by 19.00 hours as the place had the reputation of being the drug and HIV capitol of Guatemala and unsafe after dark. Whether this referred to the present time or in the past I am not certain. At Livingston the river entered into the Caribbean Ocean and in the past was the countries major port, but now so now. The history of Livingston actually began on the Caribbean island of St Vincent. A mixture of shipwrecked African slaves and native Indians who lived on the island (the Garifuna people) were fiercely independent and resisted all attempts to be subdued for years. When the British finally defeated them, they deported the surviving Garifuna to the Honduran Bay Island of Roatan, from where they later spread all along the coast from Trujillo, Honduras, to Belize. They founded Livingston around 1795.
Views on the river
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| San Filipe Castle |
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| Traditional house |
Views of Livingston
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| An old ship's capstan |
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| Hotel Henry Berrisford |
Because the hotel was isolated from Fronteros town we ate at the hotel in very pleasant surroundings.
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