Country Info
- Tegucigalpa
- Capital
- Lempira (HNL)
- Currency
- 6,406,052
- Population
- HN
- Country Code
Honduras Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Honduras
Stop over on our way to Nicaragua
This is a top pick! On our way to Leon in Nicaragua, we sleep over in ...
Stelae and cowboys
This is a top pick! ... economy. It seems that as the kilos cross each new border the value seems to escalate dramatically (i.e. a value of a kilo in Honduras would double upon entering Guatemala and then triple once across the Mexican border, and of course ...
Beach, Bike and Hike
This is a top pick! 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 ...
Here to see Copan - UNESCO Heritage site!!
This is a top pick! ... for bathrooms and coffee just outside of Chiquimula and then made the journey speedily to the border. We paid our border fees and into Honduras we went, the town of Copan Ruinas was only 10 minutes or so from the border and we were in town, in a room by ...
Learning to fly underwater
This is a top pick! Everyone who ends up on Utila is there to dive. It's just accepted, like the fact that Utila is the cheapest place on earth to become scuba certified. Or was the cheapest place to become scuba certified... Travelling with a guidebook, especially ...
No air 15 Metres deep
This is a top pick! Hi everyone, Ive just arrived in the Honduran capital after another long day yesterday and an early start. I did get an express bus after the problems before, but this also broke down. Therefore its back to chicken buses tomorrow, at least they dont ...
10 Days in Honduras
This is a top pick! ... of nowhere. From Yuscaran, it was only a few hours to Nicaragua. Highlights: -Continued cool temperatures: Much of central Honduras, including Copan, Lago Yojoa and Yuscaran, are at higher elevations, which has made the temperature so much more ...
Visiting Copan Ruinas in Honduras
This is a top pick! ... a significant role in the overall effort to break the Maya code. After having survived the trip from Antigua, Guatemala to Honduras without being robbed and assaulted by armed men (which just happened two days before my departure from Guatemala to two ...
The Big City
This is a top pick! Yesterday we spent the entire day travelling, we left our accommodation on Roatan just after 6an, by 7am we were on the ferry to La Ceiba and around 10.30am we were on a bus on our way to Tegucigalpa. The journey took all day long, and when we arrived ...
El estomago de Centro America
This is a top pick! ... the day previous, so we decided to head for the mountains and our next placement, La Tigra - the oldest national park in Honduras. Had another nightmare bus journey to a village at the foot of the mountains and had to hike up this horrendously steep road ...
Tela
This is a top pick! Hi Guys, You can read our update from Tela in our entry from Omoa, Honduras entitled 'A Taste of the Carribean'. Cheers, K & ...
a geniune waste of time
This is a top pick! Since we had a leisurely morning packing up in Tela, managed to get a slooooooow bus to La Ceiba, walked a good distance to the hostel in a roundabout disoriented fashion, it was too late in the afternoon to do anything. Not to mention it began to ...
The highest point in El Salvador
This is a top pick! ... was an enjoyable one hour walk up a dirt road to El Salvador's highest point. The only thing it had in common with Honduras's highest point was (unfortunately) the view, or lack thereof. The top of the mountain is private property, and after paying our 2 ...
La Ceiba
This is a top pick! Hi Guys, You can read our update from La Ceiba in our entry from Omoa, Honduras entitled 'A Taste of the Carribean'. Cheers, K & ...
The girlfriend of Honduras (with poo update)
This is a top pick! Boring place. Highlight was watching the movie Mr and Mrs Smith in an air-conditioned cinema and Woody buying a Chuck Norris action-packed T-shirt, thats how boring it was! Although Brandy did see a man get clubbed in the head before having his wallet ...
Bad, itīs all bad here! (with poo update)
This is a top pick! We were told that Central American capital cities were to be avoided at all cost, and this really is no joke. Within an hour of arriving in the Honduran capital of Tegucigalpa we were a mess. Crime, drugs and prostitution are rife among the uneducated ...
Paradise at last................
This is a top pick! ... near as rough as we had expected, upon arrival in Roatan we were accosted by taxi drivers, who even though we are still in Honduras generally speak English and quote everything in dollars! So, 15USD is a bit much for a taxi drive in our opinion, and so ...
Scuba and Diarrhea
This is a top pick! ... feeling like death. This island is interesting because even though it belongs to Honduras , it was settled by British slaves so the locals are African/Hispanic mix that speak ...
Team Honduras come together (with poo update)
This is a top pick! ... with 2 big crustacean carcasses she suggested that the waitress remove the meat from them Team Central America salutes team honduras for their efficiency, bravery, and ability to turn any seemingly routine situation into a sometimes confusing but always ...
Chichen Itza and Chicken Buses Part 2
This is a top pick! ... for a bloke to turn up, the heat was sweltering and it was raining, so we had to cram in the boat. 9) The ride across to Honduras took 2hours, we had to wait over an hour at imagration, we people jumping on the boat to try and change money 10)Next up a ...
A Taste of the Carribean
This is a top pick! ... we were there we took another chicken bus to the small village of El Triunfo De La Cruz (the first Spanish Settlement in Honduras) and now another Garifuna settlement where we felt like we'd been transported back across the world to Ghana. The scenery was ...
I have news for you
This is a top pick! .. and the news is: the bites are not better. They are horrible! We go diving, in the water the itch is bearable. Between the 2 dives, we try to move. Nooooo, the room becomes free tomorrow, not today. Even I do not become upset with that stuff here ...
I wanna go home
This is a top pick! It was bound to happen. The day I want to go home. But I do not think it would be because of a couple (of hundred) bites. Diving is very good again. We have a diving master from Chili. He introduces me to a Belgian diving instructor. We ask the ...
Diving in Honduras: the procedure
This is a top pick! I will tell you how diving works here. The result is the same everywhere, how to GET there is different everywhere. In fact, here you work HARD to get there. It will look like hubby does all the work. Which is not true. It was just for the pictures. I ...
A lazy day in paradise
This is a top pick! We sleep in and are JUST in time for breakfast: 11h! Dr T decides we have to top up our drinks and we go to the store. Since we do not have a fridge, we also buy a bag of ice. My poor hubby carries the whole lot home. See picture: Tony with backpack ...
Honduras
This is a top pick! ... a cut for three months. So that was around the 23rd of October and another border crossing took place to get into Honduras. A little about Central American border crossings. This one was a piece of rope draped across the road which, once paperwork was ...
From Copan Ruinas to Omoa to El Paraiso in 6 days
This is a top pick! My last entry from Honduras and i am in no mood of writing.... so, here go my observations, remarks, hints, etc...... School buses in Honduras are longer than in Guatemala and i can take my pack either in the bus (which i prefer) or it goes into a ...
Heatherīs deep thoughts
This is a top pick! BONUS SECTION: HEATHERS EPIPHANIES We actually only drove through San Pedro Sula so there is really nothing to report about this destination. But I have had a few epiphanies that I wanted to share and what better place than here. #1 (Gross text ...
Border banter (with poo update)
This is a top pick! ... office somewhere in the city to get a stamp. We passed on that option. After we solved the mystery of how to legally enter honduras we teamed with 4 English travelers to get a ride in a pickup of a pushy and rotund Honduran man who loved A-ha and ...