Hotel Plaza Del General Tegucigalpa

... can see the damaging effects as kids (18 – 23 year olds) get sucked deeper and deeper into the lifestyle and don’t have the wherewithal to disengage, they seem tired and damaged before their time. This accumulated sadly in a death on the island this Sunday from a drugs overdose, believed to be from taking ecstasy. He was a 21 year old American doing his Dive Masters in Training (DMT) at one of the dive shops (UDC). Allegedly this was the first ...

... of shampoo somehow got left behind somewhere and we found out that Central American soap isn't the best stuff to clean your hair with. So I spied some small single use type packets of either Pantene or Head and Shoulders on a wooden table bending earthward from age and the weight it was being asked to carry.

These shampoos came in double packets and I asked how much for a set of two. All I heard was "andele ...

Back in the 1560s silver was found in the mountains here and Tegucigalpa actually means "Silver Mountain" in the Nahuatl language. Fast forward a few hundred centuries and about all these hills hold are dilapidated shanties clinging to the hillsides in a precarious march up from the valley floor.

With that picture in your mind, how do I even begin to describe this place? It is noisy, crowded, chaotic, traffic choked and full of life. For ...

... at the same hotel. She also tells us to lock all the doors as only 10 mins before someone had had their handbag stolen at traffic lights. What a warm welcome. Tegucigalpa has a very european pedestrianised zone which is a bit weird as you dont see them very often, a couple of nice churches and so so interesting musem with audio guide that kept us entertained and a cinema only in ...

... 4.24) as were all the taxis we had to take in Honduras. It didn't help that we are white and it was after dark. (Feb. 7)San Pedro Sula: The bus ride from Tegucigalpa to San Pedro Sula seemed extremely long (which it was...5 hours). By the time we arrived it was too late (2pm) to continue on to Guatemala so we caught the bus to town where we could find a hotel. Taxi drivers wanted an exorbitant 180 lempiras (about $9 US) to go downtown so we found a bus going ...

... in any other countries I have been to in Central America. Most of the time, I found myself in a chicken bus on some hard core dirt road and Marcala was a dusty place with a flea market in every street. From Marcala and on my way to the ruins of Copan, I stopped in Gracias which was for a brief time the capital of all Spanish conquered Central America. Therefore, remains of centuries-old buildings such as the Castillo San Cristobal (a bit similar to ...

... for only 1500 Lempiras a month (about 80dollars, just to give you an idea, a meal is about 50 L, and the cheapest hotel room you can find is 90 L per person). It made us think, how do people survive in these conditions? We talked to other people about this and they said that normally the minimum one can expect is 4000 Lempiras a month.

... divecentre to apologise to Alfred, the very chilled out co-owner, who informed me that the next available opportunity to dive wouldn't be until Tuesday afternoon. This meant that, with no football being shown, I had a completely free day on Monday. As I was greeted in the morning by a beautiful cloudless sky, I decided to head down to the beach to do some sunbathing. Now normally I think of myself as being pretty careful when it comes to sun exposure - with a nose as sensitive as ...

... new world for us. And guess what? The moment we crossed the border we noticed we were leaving an inefficient State and passing to one that is equally as poor but had got its act together. Everything works better, looks better, is better organised. We were even impressed by the clean state of Tegucigalpa (the capital) which we expected to be a total dump. For a start there were ATM machines and banks all over the place, and loads of businesses ...

... about 6 hours and it rained the whole way. It was first rain i had seen in a while and it was cold. Felt like i was back home in London and felt underdrerssed in shorts and T shirts. But obviously the worst of the storm had passed as the winds were slight and rains were easing. We arrived in Tegucigalpa and stayed at the Hotel Centenario. This was near the bus stations in Comayaguela area which the bible say "Comayaguela is considered very dangerous at ...