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Central America Caribbean » Honduras » Southern » Choluteca December 21st 2010

So..... I was stying at El Abergue Hostel in Leon, when I saw they had an offer to go to Guatemala City by bus for $30 I was all over that as I was headed north to see a friend in Torreon Mexico, I asked for info about the bus and was given all I could handle by the gorgeous receptionist Dalia....I proceeded to pay the $30 and she wrote me up a ticket for the bus.. Now I was under the impression that it was a nice bus like that of Tica or Nica Bus, even on the ticket it showed a luxory liner lol, but as I was about to find out everything is not always what it seems lol....The taxi picked me up around 10am I said goodbyes to the staff as they ... read more

Buses and Borders

Central America Caribbean » Honduras » Southern » Choluteca January 4th 2010

Robedge

Time to start our Nicaraguan portion of our journey hopefully. We were up at 7:00am to eat and head out. As we walked around the city we noticed billowing black smoke coming out of an apartment. Sure enough a few minutes go by and firetrucks are racing to the scene. There was a hole in the wall where an apartment room once was after the fire did it's business. We ate and walked for a bit while I tried to find a store that sold soccer jerseys. Bah, no Honduran one for me in my travels, they were so nice looking but I couldn't find one. The city was actually not as bad as it seemed, we were in a nice area and had no problems. We eventually left Teguc. after being scammed by another taxi ... read more

Brief history of Honduras

Once part of Spain's vast empire in the New World, Honduras became an independent nation in 1821. After two and a half decades of mostly military rule, a freely elected civilian government came to power in 1982. During the 1980s, Honduras proved a ha...more history

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