Monday 3 March 2008

South to Placencia


We flagged down the local bus, which went up to the Southern Highway, past banana and orange trees, then turned onto the potholed dirt road down the peninsula. Went past an Aquaculture place (they farm shrimp here). Sometimes the land was so narrow we could see the ocean on one side and the lagoon on the other. The road goes around the end of the small airport runway, and saw a sign that says traffic must yield to planes taking off and landing.
We settled into our beachfront hotel and looked around the village. A small sidewalk goes north and south, with paths going the other way to the main road, so it's easy to walk everywhere.