Bamboo garden at the Lancetilla

Deep blue...

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April 18th 2007
After leaving Copan and the northwest part of Honduras, we travelled to Tela, a town on the Caribbean coast. During our three days there, we travelled to Punta Sal National Park where we saw a troop of howler monkeys and a group of foraging coatis, long-tailed tropical relatives of the North American raccoon. The beaches in the park were the beautiful white sand and palm tree combination that has ... read more

Central America Caribbean » Honduras » Bay Islands

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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... ... read more