Hotel Playa Bonita Tela
West side of Telamar, Atlantida Tela, Honduras
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An accomplishment with the locals
Finally made it to Tela! After a 6:20 AM ferry, making my way past persistent, lying taxi drivers (who actually were telling the truth), realizing the bus strike was the truth, spending time on a scorchingly hot and stuffy bus while drivers all around pounded on the windows and honked and shouted, 3 hours on the bus to get to Tela, got robbed of 45 …
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Last weekend...
... dead gorgeous! Plus where would I be without a trustee GBF...I snapped him up straight away! Then me and 7 of the other volunteers jumped on a chicken bus to Tela which is a beach resort roughly an hour away from where we live (2 and half via chicken bus which stops approximately every 6minutes!) We stayed in a big house owned by Honduran born/Bronx raised guy that one of the volunteers knew! He was a character to say the least and had us all ...
A Gringa in Cofradia
... two days full of sun, sweat, and relaxation. The water was warm but still somewhat refreshing and you could stay out forever in the gentle waves. Triunfo de la Cruz, as well as almost all of the Caribbean coastal towns, is populated by Garifunos, descendants from the African slaves who were abandoned in Honduras during the Atlantic Slave Trade because the traders feared they would revolt. For the equivalent of $5 a night we had a beachfront cabana, ...
Our first taste of the Caribbean!
... The park is named after a woman who campaigned aggressively from 1992 to 1995 to stop the illegal poaching activity going on in the park. Unfortunately, she got on the wrong side of someone and was murdered in 1995, two days after a particularly large protest that she had organised. The park was then renamed in her honour.
We caught a boat across to Punta Sal on Friday morning and started with a trek through ...
Pico Bonito
... for a travel guidebook, so we hoped we would get a mention in it haha. We rafted on the lower part of the river which has some class III and IV rapids. The first few we went through were really fun and we got pretty pumped going through the rapids and surviving some of the drops. One of the rapids we had to get out on the side ahead of time and make sure our safety kayaker got through okay. Once he made it, we went back and did the rapid while the kayaker stood on ...


