Travel Blogs from Tegucigalpa, Honduras
my 13th country :-)
I arrived in Tegucigulpa, the capital, yesterday afternoon and, being unable to continue to my intended destination of San Pedro Sula due to a strike or demonstration of some kind on the highway, I spent a pleasant afternoon strolling around the city ...
Tegucigulpa, Honduras
... ago, in our usual frame of mind - not knowing what to expect. WE have been immersed in the amazing and the mediocre. Honduras is the second poorest country in this hemishere after Haiti - 70% of the population of 7 million live in poverty, making less ...
On Seasons, Methodists, and Trips Home
... opposed persons. I had a great time with these men and invited them to return (hoping that their experience in Honduras might alter their perception however slightly). ...
Église ou spectacle rock???
... J'ai été invité par ma direction à aller à Roatan. Roatan s'est une île située dans les Caraïbes au Nord du Honduras. Il y a deux familles là-bas dont les enfants sont aveugles et ont des problèmes de développement. Nous sommes 5 a attendre la ...
Tegucigalpa
... knackered after our 4am start yesterday we left at 8am on a bus to San Pedro and then on to the Honduran capital, Tegucigalpa (a very circuitous route). We arrived in the afternoon and felt a few hours exploring the city. I tried a strange fruit called ...
Tegucigalpa
... the locals playing soccer on a pitch next to the most rubbish infested river I have seen in this part of the world. Must say that Tegucigalpa is not a capital city that I would rate highly on the must see list. It would rate on the 1000 places not to see ...
Last day in Honduras- Gotten Interesting...
Soo... Last day in Honduras, Things have gotten interesting... Civil unrest in Honduras.... Airport may be closed... protestors in streets The protest was the latest event in a day of developments that have created a political crisis in a country ...
Tegucigalpa, the capital of Honduras
... výrazně lišila od ostatních. Tak jsme tu alespoň netrčeli úplně zbytečně. Tegucigalpa nás skutečně přívitala špinavě, šedivě, chaoticku, přesně tak, jak knihy ...
Tegucigalpa
... deren Familie wir die naechsten Tage verbracht haben. Hier wurden wir mal wieder bestens umsorgt und durch Tegucigalpa und Umgebung kutschiert, um die wichtigsten Sachen anzuschauen, wie zum Beispiel Valle des Angeles, Picacho (=Christusstatue ...
Tegus (as the locals call it)
... National Art Gallery which was unmemorable, and the National Identity Museum which had lots of fascinating facts about the history of Honduras, starting 150 million years ago! The most exciting fact I learnt was that there used to be giant rodents called ...
Changement de cap!!
... 'rents aspects de ma personne. Je compte ramener avec moi cette tranquillité d'esprit, le sourire des gens et leur hospitalité. Le Honduras est un pays qui a peu, mais qui donne l'essentiel. Je vous embrasse. Je pars pour le Sud dans un village de ...
my polka dot party dress!
Sunday saw me onto the bus to tegucigalpa for the +- 6 hour trip - through some exquisite scenery: hills, mountains, valleys, pine forests, rivers, lakes - breathtaking. i discovered Brian Eno on my ipod and his tunes were the perfect soundtrack. i ...
Tegucigalpa again!
Spent one night here in the not so nice district this time, Comayaguela, but a great hotel. Nice to get back to spanish speaking and mainland prices of Salva Vida/ Port Royal cerveza again (beautiful ...
Que de bonnes nouvelles
... de rires, de bières, d'idées, de conseils et de pof... un vrai chum bon. Et ben,lui, y va se pointer au Honduras le 1er Juillet; alors attention mes amis, on va faire la loi à La Ceiba... -Attention Hondurien Hondurienne la racaille de ...
Tegucigalpan Taxi Trauma
... dawn just brings the chaos back to life. I began missing the place as the 5AM King Quality Bus bound or Tegucigalpa wound through upscale suburbs that would be home anywhere in the US, chaos of the Centro Historico downtown slowly ...
Deuxième essai pour les photos
Bonjour à tous, Je viens de lire le petit livre qui venait avec mon appareil photo, en faite la section sur le transfert de fichier. Je crois avoir compris que la taille de mes fichers étaient trop volumineuse; donc beaucoup trop long à ...
Mon petit sac à dos
Salut tout le monde, Ça fait un mois que je suis ici...j'ai de la difficulté à réaliser la vitesse à laquelle le temps file. Je constate à quel point les évênements de ma vie se sont bousculés depuis la fin de mon secondaire... Je ne sais pas ...
Tegucigalpa 2
... ewig in der Hitze warten mussten, nur damit unsere Rucksaecke extremst oberflaechlich durchsucht wurden. Unser Fazit fuer Honduras: - endlich wieder: Essen gehen, Hostels unter 5 Euro pro Nacht, werden wir beachtet :) , Kino, Waerme, Sonne, ...
Lesson Learned
The journey started in Tegucigalpa (more on that in a previous travelogue). From Teguz to Managua we caught a series of chicken buses, to try and save money. Unfortunately, my encounter with a money-changer at the border upended those plans. Apparently ...
La ponctualité ... concept inconnu.
Salut à tous, Merci pour vous mail ça me fait du bien de constater que vous partager la même vision que moi sur l'importance de prendre du temps pour vivre. Celui là est ben molo... je suis en train d'attendre depuis bientôt 1 heure un enfant ...
Hola!!!!
Bonjour tout le monde, Je viens d'essayer d'envoyer des photos, mais comble de malheur, seulement une a pu être envoyer. En fait, c'est que ça prend un temps fou à télécharger; je crois que mes photos sont trop volumineuses. Je vais essayer ...
The Pic Says it All
This sign rises magestically from the slums around Toncontin Airport. Click on the pic to enlarge it and read the name of the Chinese restaurant out loud. Stuff this good deserves its own ...
San Pedro bound
On Monday we shall say hasta luego to Tegus and make the now familiar trip North to San Pedro, if we like it we can start work on Tuesday. The organisation seems really good and the work looks really interesting so we are keeping everything ...
stop over in a dump
The night at the airport in Barrabuilla was uneventful and it was rather nice in that it was deserted and I was able to sleep without noice other than once in a while a person would comover to look out the windo I was at and wake me. The capital on ...
Long Day (again)
Long travel day with the boat crossing to the mainland and about 9 hours on buses to Tegucialpa. All worth it though, as the evening was spent in a restaurant where if you bought a bottle of rum you got free food - quite a drunken night again.. ...
