Honduras Travel Blogs

18 Rabbit Wuz Here
Mar 28, 2006 (5 photos)

... left 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
Mar 23, 2006 (4 photos)

... ´ 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 down!

Successful Letter Delivery, Bad Bus Rides
Mar 17, 2006 (4 photos)

... 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!
Apr 6, 2005 (32 photos)

... two double super-comfy beds and cable TV. Keith was happy as he got to watch West Brom win for a change. Copan is Honduras´s Tikal but on a far less grand scale. It´s the incredibly well preserved stone carvings and sculptures that gives Copan it´s magic. ...

Iguanas and Tarantulas in the Caribbean
Jul 20, 2008 (6 photos)

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 Scott-and-Claire's-South- ...

Choppy water and pissing rain.
Nov 6, 2004 (12 photos)

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 ...

Copious fun in Copan
Dec 10, 2006 (5 photos)

... 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 it ...

DnD BnBnB.... or the Bermuda Triangle of Honduras
Mar 21, 2006 (5 photos)

... 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 ...

La Ceiba
Sep 29, 2006

Travel to Utila

SCUBA fun!!
Jan 21, 2007 (8 photos)

After our wonderful day yesterday (not really) we decided to get out of La Ceiba and go to Utila in the Bay Islands. We got an early taxi to the ferry with a French Canadian (FC from now on) for the hour long ride across the water. We didn´t like the ...

Eighteen Rabbit.
Nov 9, 2004 (10 photos)

... 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 ...

Nicaragua, Honduras
Feb 2, 2003 (38 photos)

... 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 in the ...

The best beer in Cental America
Jan 5, 2007 (10 photos)

... in time and this was a good thing because the next bus came by at 1pm. It was a long bumpy ride to Marcala, Honduras. There were no customs or immigration offices along this route so we never officially checked back into the country, and the ride in a ...

Waterfalls arn´t for us
Aug 11, 2008 (6 photos)

... 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 days ...

Copan Ruinas and La Ceiba
Mar 1, 2004 (3 photos)

... they are generally re-sprayed in garrish colours, have highly polished chrome and have nick-names and Nike stickers! Our bus in Honduras had no such extravagence lavished upon it - in fact, I watched with morbid amusement from the back as a floor panel ...

Smooth sailing...
Jun 15, 2004 (1 photos)

... 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 ...

viva la vida
Jul 31, 2008 (5 photos)

... 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. It ...

Back to the mainland...
Jul 4, 2004

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 was ...

Utila - Learning to Dive (we hope)
Sep 30, 2006 (8 photos)

... 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 ...

Mayan Ruins
Jun 16, 2004 (8 photos)

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 ...

Honduras
Nov 21, 2004 (6 photos)

... 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 ...

HONDURAS
Jul 31, 2006 (17 photos)

... , 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 ...

An aptly-named cloud forest
Dec 14, 2006 (6 photos)

12/10 -Today was a travel day. 3 buses but good connections. The passing scenery was amazing, well at least what I could see of it the windows of the bus were nasty!  Gracias, which I like to call garcias for some reason is a quiet town that will be ...

Hippies with cell phones
Jan 24, 2006 (3 photos)

... north is taking me along la Ruta Maya - the region formerly inhabited by the Ancient Maya - running from Western Honduras through Southern Guatemala and reaching its fascinating and impressive end in the central Yucatán Peninsula. I started at the ruins of ...

Puerto Cortes
Sep 29, 2006

Travel to La Ceiba

Kinda like flying to the capital city
Jan 23, 2007 (6 photos)

... ride from Utila to the mainland, we took a taxi to the luxury bus line for the long trip to Tegucigalpa, the capital of Honduras. We have been making a point to avoid capital cities thus far in our travels since neither of us care for big cities, but it ...

Roatan - A Caribbean Paradise
Mar 6, 2004 (5 photos)

After our escapades in La Ceiba, we were only too pleased to finally arrive on the island of Roatan. With no shortage of taxi drivers meeting the ferry and jostling to compete for business we were soon whisked away to West End Village, reputedly the ...

Crossing Honduras
Jan 19, 2007 (20 photos)

... various beers. Our main objective this week, however, was to dip our toes in the turquoise waters of the Caribbean on Honduras' northern coast. Unfortunately, the rainy season hasn't quite ended here - which has meant stormy seas and cloudy days - so ...

La Ceiba
Oct 7, 2006

Travel to Tegucigalpa

Beach, Bike and Hike
Jan 11, 2007 (7 photos)

Our first evening in Tela, a "beach city" in northern Honduras, was no more than shopping around for an affordable hotel, checking out various disappointing book exchanges, and eating dinner at a restaurant oddly called the "Luces del Norte" (Northern ...