San Pedro Sula, Honduras Travel Blogs

Helloooo Tropical Heat!
Jul 26, 2006

* see pics on... www.rubyfunk.shutterfly.com The strike ended soon, thank goodness and I made it up to San Pedro Sula, where I stayed at a fabulous little backpackers place, run by a young and funky married couple who play in a band and were so friendly ...

San Pedro
Mar 14, 2007

We moved to San Pedro on Monday, it seems to be a really vibrant and buzzing city.  Our house is lovely, quite a way out on the road to Puerto Cortes and we share it with 6 colleagues.  Its very halls of residence but safe and big and free from ...

A ghost town by night
Apr 20, 2008

... so if you have to transit here you shouldn't need to enter down town at all. What a fabulous country Hitching from the border to San Pedro Sula   Accommodation While in San Pedro Sula I stayed at - Hotel Real, 6 Ave. Entre 6 y 7 Calle. It was a ...

Tamales & Tacos
Jun 1, 2009 (13 photos)

Today was a rough day at school.  I was loosing patience quickly with 1st grade and 5th grade was not much better... this is the last week of school so they are anxious to escape for the summer!  I can relate, I've been there.  They have ...

Night in the Big City!
Jun 4, 2009

... - somehow it always works out in Central America.  Tonight we wanted to have a special night in the big city of San Pedro Sula with Mary, Juan Carlos, Katherine, and Madheline to thank them for letting us stay in their house for 2 weeks!  They ...

duh
Nov 25, 2006

Isnt hindsight a wonderful thing? Perhaps we should have listened to the people who told us not to go to San Pedro Sula?? Or perhaps we should have got up early and arrived earlier and probably even go all the way to Tegucigalpa....but the fact is we ...

In transit (via the world's nastiest hotel)
Oct 20, 2008 (1 photos)

... direct bus from Copan to Tegucigalpa today as planned: the road is blocked due to flooding and landslides. Decided to head to San Pedro instead: better travel connections from there and there's no point staying in Copan now that I've decided I can't face ...

A Crazy Thing Happened Next to the Maquiladoras
Jan 30, 2007 (2 photos)

I've been wanting to share a story about a very odd thing that happened to me on my way home from school, early last week.  It has nothing to do with my students, just my own experience:   With my pack loaded down with school books, ...

My Jennifer
Jun 2, 2009

School was much better today.  I had a lot of patience and a fresh outlook.  I was more prepared and thus more effective.  After school, we walked home with Christian.  He is in 6th grade this year.  His little sister, Jennifer, ...

Leaving Cofradia
Feb 4, 2007 (53 photos)

... : One, we were leaving (at last the Irish feckers are goin) Two, Joe (volunteer teacher for 10 years) moved from San Pedro Sula to Cofradia to live. Three, a few new volunteers had arrived and a party was due. The dollybirds of the house organised ...

Top 10 things to do at Cusuco National Park
Sep 27, 2009 (22 photos)

To start, Cusuco National Park is located west to San Pedro Sula, Honduras. the cloud forest has 2 zones. The core zone and the buffer zone. The core zone is the area where the forest is most dense and virgin, and it's more protected. The buffer zone ...

Back to San Pedro
Feb 14, 2007

We caught the 10:30 am bus from Copan, retracing our steps to San Pedro Sula.  We found it interesting that one of the fellows who worked for the bus company took everyone's picture before they boarded the bus.  No quite sure why, though there ...

Week 3
Jan 27, 2008

... Family (distant relatives of mine that live in Kentucky) have donated $300 to the school for school supplies!!!  I am super excited about going to San Pedro Sula and going on a little shopping extravaganza for the kids!  THANK YOU SO MUCH! 

Soccer game
Mar 8, 2008

Saturday night I went to a soccer game in San Pedro with a group of the San Jeronimo volunteers.  Two of the national teams, Vida and Real España, battled it out.  The stadium looked similar to what you would see in the States, but instead of ...

The Old Lady & the Shoe
Jun 3, 2009

Today was crazy hectic because it is our last full day... We spent lunch with Ninoska and her family.  She made us pastelitos, which are sort of like hot pockets with seasoned ground beef inside.  It was a nice visit, but rather brief for ...

Honduras - San Pedro Sula
Feb 23, 2008 (1 photos)

... a breeze! Eventually, we got our our passports stamped and hopped into the taxi to take us to the nearest big town, San Pedro Sula, which had all the necessary bus terminals required for our onward journey. Sand Pedro Sula is another large and densley ...

HONDURAS
Jul 31, 2006 (51 photos)

... its large Palestinian immigrant population. T and I arrived one day prior to Kelby and Gretchen and explored the city a bit. San Pedro Sula isn't exactly a charming city with many activities/sites. It mainly serves as a jumping off point to Copan and the ...

Bye Bye Belize, Hello Honduras
Oct 30, 2009

... (a 5-minute drive away), and you just have to deal with it. Can´t ever be too cautious, right? We took a bus to San Pedro Sula and found a bus that goes straight to Nicaragua tomorrow. We hung out in the bus station for a little bit while I perused the ...

Slow Workers
Mar 28, 2007

Hello to all and welcome to all Yes you are reading correctly, we are into our 3rd week here at San Pedro Sula so the insane map that we have can finally have a fixed point for a while (keeping everything crossed of course). The house we live in is very ...

A Bee Attack is Nothing, Seriously
Mar 14, 2007 (2 photos)

... , respect, and consider Irma a personal friend.  Her son is in my classroom.  Irma has taken us to Karaoke in San Pedro, has hosted numerous parties for our team, as well as having thrown parties for both of her kids' classrooms from the school.& ...

Omoa
Feb 21, 2007

Omoa, Noli's Hostel

Valentine´s Week
Feb 15, 2008 (5 photos)

This was by far, the best week that I have had so far with my class!  I have heard that 6 weeks is kind of a magic number when progress really shines through.  Maybe I just had that notion in my head, but it seems to have proved it true!  ...

Laundry
Jan 15, 2008

How many of us hate to do laundry?  I would do just about anything for a functioning washing machine right now!  I discovered today that I know absolutely nothing about doing laundry on a washboard.  To my mother's amazement, I have never ...

Welcome Back Miss Claudia!
May 26, 2009 (10 photos)

Our flights went well yesterday.  Paige & Kim are staying at "The Rocks" which is Ben & Terry's creation- a jungle pool with a tree house, a bunkhouse, a restaurant, and even a little dance floor now.  They will be turning it into a ...

Hitching it to San Pedro Sula
Aug 18, 2005

... see if the driver would take us to where the bus was stuck. The family in the pick-up were actually going all the way to San Pedro Sula which was exactly where we wanted to go so we hitched a ride along with two American girls. We didn't get to San Pedro ...

A Smart Young Lady Copes
Feb 21, 2007 (6 photos)

... to.  It is simply accepted here, and even condoned, as a legitimate way to discipline a child.  It's as though Honduras was living by the standards of 1950s U.S. One day I was walking back to the office to return gym equipment after several ...

Going Back to Cofradia - The Arrival
Jun 16, 2008

... what possibilities might exist for us, or not. I will tell you a little more about that as it unfolds. I flew into San Pedro Sula late last night. Kelis, my girlfriend, had accompanied Don Wilfredo and his nephew, one of my students from last year, ...

Amazing Latin America
Jul 31, 2007

We are in San Pedro Sula, a bustling and modern town in the east of Honduras getting ready to fly out.  We are nearing the end of Module I of our round the world journey and can sum it up simply:  Latin America is an amazing place; we are truly ...

Back here again
Jan 24, 2008

... to move i found out that the only way to get further south, to Costa rica, would be to head BACK up 5 hours north to San Pedro Sula, a city which i was quite glad to see the back of.  So here i am, with again not much to report (im just doing this so ...

Cofradia the School
Jan 12, 2007 (16 photos)

So... school.... Up every morning at 6am.... schooling commences at 7.15am. The school is 2kms from the house and the mode of transport there is either feet or clinging onto the back of a pickup truck (cool!). There are 300 kids in the school, ...