Plaza Del Libertador Hotel Tegucigalpa

... little to no subtly about it, the buying/ selling exchange and taking; and the cops know about it, occasionally running supposed drug busts just to get good bribes from the various tourists and longer term residents. They have no interest in arrests, just money and confiscation. Weed, cannabis etc is also widely available and is openly smoked constantly on the island morning, day and night. However, although the majority of people are there to have a good time ...

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 entry. I just wonder what the food tastes like.

I added a bunch of pictures to yesterday's San Salvador entry (8/17/2009) so look back at it so you can see what the place is like. There are some more here today,too.<br><br>While I don't think I will ever be able to pass for a San Salvadoran, I did thoroughly enjoy immersing myself into the culture. I even managed to buy a bottle of water and some shampoo from street vendors just like a local would. The communal bottle of shampoo somehow got left behind ...

We don´t particularly like latin american capital cities but we need to take a break before heading out of honduras as we can´t make it in one day. Essentially we take a cab from the bus terminal to our hotel which the guy says he knows then drops off the other passenger drives round the block a couple of times before dropping us off at the same corner. The other passenger happens to be ...

... good thing is that he told us where to get off the bus, and was very proud that he was able to be of service to us. His advice turned out to be great. We were right next to the bus station we would leave from in the morning and found a nice hotel. We were, however, in an auto parts district so we ended up taking a bus (3 lempira each, 16 cents US) to the mall where we ate an overpriced dinner and decided not to watch a movie. The taxi home was expensive, (80 ...

... out, shook their hand and had a chat while some people went out of the bus to get pupusas from the back of a pickup truck next to the "immigration office". After five minutes, the driver came back in and we droved off. That was it, we were in Honduras. Wasn't that cool? The road on the other side of the border was the exact same and it took us another two hours to drive 20 km to the town of Marcala. The infrastructures in Honduras are much less developed ...

... t interested in buying anything. We saw an advertissement for Dunkin Donuts recruiting people so we randomly asked to speak to the manager about it and got an interview! The man was willing ot employ us both, even if we were only goingto be there for a month, and even if Alex doesn´t speak much Spanish. BUT the working week is ...

... when, just ten minutes into the match, substitutions were being made left, right and centre by both teams! Although it still took a while, it eventually dawned on me that I was watching the second, as opposed to the first half of this vital quarter final. It turns out that my clock had inexplicably turned itself back one hour during the night, and so I had been impatiently waiting for my instructor at 8am rather than the arranged time of 7am. After the match I headed back to ...

Niu countri as our friend Mambo would say...finally in Honduras after 3 weeks in Nicaragua. We are sad to leave Nicaragua but strangely relieved of not having to listen to any more of their Sandinista bullcrap. Lets just hope Comandante Ortega gets hit by lightning and avoids a new civil war in Nicaragua, or at least unfair poverty on most of his "compañeros y compañeras". So with joy of leaving the land of Sandinismo, we arrived at Honduras...a ...

Well bright and early on a reasonably calm sea managed to catch the ferry to the mainland with Dan despite a final late night in Tranquila's (one of the bars on Utila) and a few too many beers. We had been watching a tropical storm the previous day that was in Southern Honduras and heading north and were worried that we wouldnt be getting off the island but the crossing was smooth. We were headed for the capital or Nicuragua if possible. The bus trip ...