Today was one of those days in which any fair dinkum fella looks forward to like a swift kick in the pterodactyls – a 7-hour bus ride through switchback mountain roads, with oncoming drivers’ hell bent on meeting their respective Gods … but only at your personal safety or demise.
Our first “yippee” for the day was when somehow our CEO “Wander Woman” Sonia managed to score yesterday’s 24 seat mini-bus and driver to transport all 6 of us “G Family” members the 320 kilometre (200 mile) drive to Hacienda Tijax on the Río Dulce.
I tell you what, I not the marrying kind … just yet, but if Sonia keeps this up, I’ll let her buy me a cerveza or 10.
A couple of hours in to the trip, we pulled up for a quick 15 minute “leak & peak” in Sanarate, before continuing on to the town of Teculután.
While the rest of the crew dined at the Hotel El Atlantico, I on the other hand had the second “yippee” moment when nothing on the hotel menu struck my fancy, I headed out on to the streets and found Cafetería Y Pupusería El Buen Gusto.
Cafetería Y Pupusería is a local family owned enterprise that served me up Carne Asada with some of the most wicked beans & rice I’ve ever had, plus a fresh cucumber, carrot, lettuce & radish salad, 3 tortillas and bottle of water – all for $4.77 AUD ….. Ab-Fab, loved it, full stop, end of story!!!
From Teculután it was a further 152 kilometres (94 miles) into the docks of Rio Dulce where we transferred to a water taxi for the 15 minute ride to Hacienda Tijax.
I’m so not a big fan of being stuck in a gilded cage, but I have to say I’m loving the accommodations and environs that this place provides – it literally is a cubby house in a rain forest and a welcome change to the hard cityscapes I’ve experienced of late.
