A dirty Caribbean beach town

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Flag of Honduras Tela, Honduras
Thursday, May 3, 2007

Tela, an up and coming beach town on the Caribbean coast of Colombia has alot of work to do if its to become the next hot tourist destination as they say it is.
The place is a complete dump. Rubbish lines every street, where stray dogs covered in mange roam in packs. The locals are far from welcoming.
Its stinking hot and the beach is so polluted, the water glows and the sand can barely be seen from the garbage lining the shores. Making it a death wish to swim.
Its not what you would expect from a Caribbean beach town.
The local people call themselves Garifunas, and are descendants from african slaves. They have a number of traditional communities scattered along the north coast of Honduras.

More soon. In the meantime, im diving in the Bay Islands.

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zlopez on May 22, 2007 at 04:09PM

thanks alot
Thanks for visiting tela, i am trying to open a website on honduras travel i was going to narrow it down to a particular place, and my husband suggested tela even though neither one of us has visited tela yet. and then write that comment down, and i say next. i really want to write about LA Ceiba i have gone there many of times. thanks alot and good luck on your travels.