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The First 48 Hours
We survived our first day in Tegucigalpa! The flight was smooth—no delays. We flew over Cuba and witnessed the spectacular sapphire blue Caribbean water. Thankfully, the runway at Tegucigalpa's airport was recently lengthened, so the landing was nowhere near as bad as people have told us it would be. Regardless, everyone on the plane cheered …
Show Me Something We Can Sink Our Teeth Into....
Of the three sites Cape Cares goes to, Los Encinitos apparently has the "best" set up for dentistry. Someone was actually able to transport and set up both a suction unit and an air compressor at the site, which is sort of like having both an engine and a steering wheel in your car! So, while the set-up was certainly rudimentary, it was functional. We did have working sterilizers for the instruments. There were no operatory lights over the chairs we ...
Noisy capitol, but relief from the heat.
... more of a wander, we went back to the hotel to do some planning. Just after dark we headed up the road to a chinese that was recommended and had chop suey for dinner. After dinner we walked back and watched some TV in the lounge. Whilst there, Oggy, that we met in JoAns hostel in San Salvador wandered in, small world. So we sat and chatted for a while then got off to bed around 11pm.
Weds 18th Apr.
Had a bit of a lie in until 9am and walked across ...
Corn Products on the way to Swiss Honduras
... fast food restaurant by the big yellow chicken....don't know why.....
After the capital, we went up to about 1500 meters into the mountains to Valle de Angeles, the village center of Swiss Honduras. Before that we stopped at a corn product stand on the roadside. Some people tried the corn porridge and I tried the roasted corn - which
was tasty but took a long time to eat because it wasn't as tender as our ...
Tegusegalpa
... conditioning, plus TV ..... All in Spanish but TV. We then ate at the restaurant and had a couple of beers. It was nice but we knew it wouldn't last ! Next morning we were up to get the Tica Bus to Nicaragua .
Tica Bus
The great thing about Tica Bus is they do everything for you at the boarder. I.e they take your passport ...
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