Santa Rosa de Copan, Honduras Travel Blogs

Honduras
Dec 28, 2006

... .. Im on a busy main road with lots of big buildings and electric lights? turns out this is actually La Entrada stil 60 clicks from Copan! Still Ive done well for a days travel, Im tired, its late so I fork out 20 bucks for a hotel (apparently there arent ...

El Porvenir: My first taste of what was to come
Nov 1, 1999 (5 photos)

From Nacaome, I returned to Tegucigalpa briefly, then on to a little village in the Santa Barbara province of Honduras called Porvenir--a poetic form of saying "future" in Spanish. I was participating in my first delegation of US citizens coming to ...

Honduras - Santa Rosa De Copan
Feb 24, 2008 (6 photos)

Hola, Ian here: We arrived in the quaint little town of Santa Rosa De Copan upon our first taste of the Hondurean public transport system. Turns out that the bus we were on was not one used everyday and on many routes - it was a brand new, modern bus ...

Santa Rosa de Copan
Mar 5, 2009 (7 photos)

We got the ferry from Roatan then a bus to Tela down the coast and spent a night there before catching 2 more buses to Santa Rosa de Copan. The one from San Pedro Sula was supposed to be a luxury bus but was the same as the rest and when it went over a ...

Election Fever!
Nov 30, 2009

... and so i took myself off to bed after a bit of crowd watching! Now we are spending our last night in Honduras in the mountain town of Santa Rosa De Copan, where we have just enjoyed a salva vida on the rooftop terrace of a hotel, a couple of pupusas and ...

Heading back in Time
Dec 21, 2007 (13 photos)

... and Canada. One girl lives in Hamilton, not far from us! We left at 5 in the morning and travelled to Honduras to the cute little town of Copan which is close to the Guatemalan border. The view from the shuttle bus was very pleasant, green and lush. The ...

Midway Point
Sep 2, 2005 (4 photos)

... pines and smaller leaves than the tropical foilage of Salvador and Guatemala. Really spread out and our night in a university town of Santa Rosa de Copan was great. Full of life and music. Today is my 4 month anniversary, so I treated Senor Shifty to a ...

Quiet colonial towns - Santa Rosa & Gracias
Apr 2, 2008 (25 photos)

I´ve spent a couple of days in the small colonial towns of Western Honduras , Santa Rosa and Gracias. They have been pleasant and interesting enough but I would say without anything really memorable or exciting to write about. I have found out pretty fast ...

$2 haircut and other things
Feb 18, 2009 (3 photos)

... dogs I´d have had shot in Colombia are best of breed at Crufts compared to the skeletal ruins in El Salvador. Paid another $3 to enter Honduras again, wish I thought it was worth the money.  It will be fine, I just got off to a bad start and Jon´s ...

A Day with Paul and the Reclaiming of our Stuff
Mar 20, 2007

... , Paul. He has recently been promoted within the Peace Corps to being in charge of the western part of Honduras. He moved to the bigger city of Santa Rosa for the more centralized location - and possibly for the sweet apartment he found. Although I would ...

Cigar Factory Visit
Jan 22, 2007 (1 photos)

... on a radio loudly in their room and shout conversations down the corridor to each other for the next hour until they leave! Santa Rosa is nice-enough, a quiet colonial town set in pretty countryside, a neccessary transit point for us to get to ...

Santa Rosa
Oct 14, 2009 (1 photos)

Día dos-Tomé el tren a la Santa Rosa. Comí en el plato del día en Rosas cocina la comida era delicioso. Después visité lago Yajoa nadé en el lago y pesqué. Los pez es muy grande y de colores vivos. En la noche bailé en los discotecas la música era fantástico. Dormí en ...

Copan, Honduras
Oct 13, 2008

... of water, etc... Internet access in Antigua was often less than $1 US for anywhere from 30-60 mins.  Here in Honduras it's even worse... They have the Lempira and the exchange rate varies a bit depending on where you get your money.  The ...