Country Info
- Tegucigalpa
- Capital
- Lempira (HNL)
- Currency
- 6,406,052
- Population
- HN
- Country Code
Honduras Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Honduras
18 Rabbit Wuz Here
This is a top pick! ... Tela headed for the north-coast beach town of Omoa. Our miserable Lonely Planet guide described Roli´s place as "the best hostel in Honduras", and like the fools we are, we fell for it and three busses later (one air-conditioned!) we made it there. ...
Night of the Yowling Cat
This is a top pick! ... US chain experience--A Dunkin´ Donuts at the bus terminal) Tomorrow it is on to Omoa, hopefully to what our guidebook calls the "best hostel in Honduras". Although, with how wrong this guide has been so far, it will probably be a dive, or closed ...
Successful Letter Delivery, Bad Bus Rides
This is a top pick! ... take them out sometime soon, or even a fire. From Tegus, it was another bus onward to Comayagua, the first capital of Honduras. There is a pretty church here (complete with the oldest clock in the Americas, an 800 yr old beaut made by the Moors), ...
Stelaes, Hieroglyphs and Out of Air Emergencys!
This is a top pick! ... lot to each other and taking walks around the town we didnt really do much else. We considered a hike to the highest peak in Honduras but sadly the weather changed and it wasn´t possible, I was gutted as you can imagine. We had a lovely time just ...
Iguanas and Tarantulas in the Caribbean
This is a top pick! Claire: I'm writing this from the lovely air-conditioned office at the Iguana Research and Breeding Station on Utila, Honduras. Its 9pm at night here. Just to set the scene... we've just had a delicious dinner of prawns and ...
Choppy water and pissing rain.
This is a top pick! Today it's exactly one month since I left Seattle. Time is moving at a decent pace down here, and I think I have managed to do and see a lot so far. To be honest I haven't spent much time thinking about the past or even the future. Here it's the present ...
Tea-goose-ee-gal-pa
This is a top pick! ... . Passports stamped, we do pay a small fee, we shouldn't have paid any fee as there is an agreement between Nicaragua, Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala that allows free passage between all four as long we you have one stamp from one of the countries. ...
DnD BnBnB.... or the Bermuda Triangle of Honduras
This is a top pick! ... Robert makes on the premises in a shipping container that he had outfitted as a brewery while in the US and shipped by sea to Honduras. They make a great porter, and good amber and pale ales, as well as some dodgy fruit ales (Andrew and I have an aversion ...
Nicaragua, Honduras
This is a top pick! ... (soccer for the Americans among the readers) between the two countries Salvadorian hooligans attacked Hondurian fans after which Honduras expelled thousands of Salvadorian emigrants. El Salvador answered this insult by attacking Honduras by force... Only ...
Waterfalls arn´t for us
This is a top pick! ... of the national park for the following day. Claire: The National Parque Montana de Celaque is based around the highest peak in Honduras. At 2,849m (I think) its pretty high. We opted on a 2 day hike through the national park because by taking 2 ...
Eighteen Rabbit.
This is a top pick! ... a Gado Gado. I know, it's a pretty typical Indonesian dish and I'm located in the beautiful cobblestoned village of Copán, Honduras, set in a serene landscape surrounded with green rolling hills. I couldn't resist, I was craving Asian food. My absolute ...
Seeing the ruins of Copan
This is a top pick! ... , I need not get a stamp either. I cried all the way to San Salvador.........well, replace cried with slept! One thing I love about Honduras is that every pick up truck you see on the road or motorway, has a family or a bunch of workers sat in the back. ...
viva la vida
This is a top pick! ... isnt yeton its way. No we just havnt worte the blog in a while because we´ve been busy seeing the sights of honduras bacuse were on the move already. But first the iguana station. So Claire made me that birthday cake and it was delicious. ...
Utila - Learning to Dive (we hope)
This is a top pick! ... of England put us off a bit! We therefore decided that we would spend 3 days / 4 nights on one of the Bay Islands in Honduras, and so selected Utila (as it is one of the cheapest places to learn in the Caribbean). On the way over here we were told by a ...
Fire and Water
This is a top pick! It has been about 6 months since my last blog post. The months have quite literally swept by, leaving Mexico, the mountains of El Potrero Chico, and the beaches of Playa Del Carmen a blur in my memory. I will always treasure the three months that I lived ...
Smooth sailing...
This is a top pick! ... to figure it out though. In town, I found a hotel for 50 Lempiras. There are 18 Lempiras to the dollar which makes Honduras a great, affordable place to travel. A welcome relief after budget busting San Salvador! The hotel manager was pretty cool. When I ...
Back to the mainland...
This is a top pick! Happy 4th of July!!!! After 10 days on the island ... not sure how I ended up there for so long but the biggest lie heard on Utila is "I´m leaving tomorrow" followed by "I´m not drinking tonight" ... anyway, I decided to get moving again. My last dive ...
Honduras
This is a top pick! ... in Honduras. After crossing into Honduras (from El Salvador)we caught a bus up to San Pedro Sula, the 2nd largest city in Honduras, near the Carribean Sea coastline. As we arrived late (11pm) we caught a taxi straight to Hotel Rosa and crashed. The next ...
Mayan Ruins
This is a top pick! I stopped in Copan Ruinas to check out the famous ruins here. These are some of the best preserved and the most studied ruins in the Mayan world and are not to be missed. The small tourist town here is pretty nice and a cool place to meet other ...
Now I Can't Eat Grouper
This is a top pick! I'm sitting on the sea bottom off the island of Roatan, in the Caribbean Sea. Even at one hundred and ten feet below the surface, the water is warm. Juergen, my Divemaster takes a banana from his sack and hands it to me. I shrug my ...
Copan Ruinas and La Ceiba
This is a top pick! We had ANOTHER early start in order to make our way to Copan Ruinas, just over the Guatemalan border, in Honduras. Fighting the urge to return to sleep, we rose at 5.30 am and quickly packed up and checked out of the hotel. Waking up a hotel employee to ...
HONDURAS
This is a top pick! ... , instead he just mumbled something about the strike which we were unable to decipher. Something dawns on us here. Honduras, like Mexico, has had a relatively conflict free past 100 years. Whereas, the neighbouring countries of Guatemala, El Salvador ...
Sailing From Honduras to Guatemala
This is a top pick! ... Captain Pete expertly maneuvered our craft past jagged rocky outcrops. We anchored in a sheltered little cove near Punta Sol, Honduras. Calm, clear water surrounded the catamaran. A gentle breeze shifted the palm fronds on the nearby jungle beach. After ...
Tremendous Tegucigalpa....NOT!
This is a top pick! The Honduran capital Tegucigalpa is like any other Central American capital... horrid. We only stayed here as an overnight stop as we are heading to Nicaragua!!! Due to our traveller budget we had to stay downtown, not pleasant. So if you ever, god ...
Lou and Lynn update
This is a top pick! ... great holiday with a camper vehicle, perhaps buying the vehicle in the USA and travelling through Mexico, Belize, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica and then selling the vehicle in Panama. It would be a great adventure. There are also ...
Copious fun in Copan
This is a top pick! ... official would not stamp our entry into the country, saying that new agreements as of this July allowed people traveling in Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, and Nicaragua to use the same 90 day visa for the four countries. We tried to get him to stamp ...