http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Honduras/San-Pedro-Sula/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from Central America Caribbean , Honduras , San Pedro Sula en-us Thu, 07 Jan 2010 05:42:06 +0000 Thu, 07 Jan 2010 05:42:06 +0000 hello followers of my blog if you exist... I have moved to a new location httpsageintranslation.wordpress.comthis place seems a bit messy and difficult to navigate... please update your bookmarksxoxo sharon http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Honduras/San-Pedro-Sula/blog-413877.html Anyone who knows me knows how much I love a new adventure for the experiences sake. Strangely one thing that was definitely NOT on my list of things to experience in this lifetime was the violent overthrow of a third world country with a front row seat. Yet here I am and Im left wondering if I should begin warning future nations of my impending travel plans as my dear old friend Michael sugg http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Honduras/San-Pedro-Sula/blog-413475.html I canrsquot believe this is only my first weekend here in San Pedro Sula. I feel pretty comfortable here in my neighbourhood. People are starting to get used to my face around here and my surroundings feel less strange and hostile than they did in the first couple days. A couple of blocks from my house there is a lsquobulevar deportivorsquo or a sports boulevard where from 57am and 57pm i http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Honduras/San-Pedro-Sula/blog-410984.html I have safely arrived in San Pedro Sula Honduras. I am a grad student at the University of Toronto studying urban planning. I will be in Honduras for the next three months working on a planning project with the Municipality of San Pedro Sula funded by the Canadian International Development Agency CIDA. To be honest when I first found out that my proposal to work in El Ocotillo a garbage dum http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Honduras/San-Pedro-Sula/blog-409206.html I'm back in San Pedro Sula after 2 long years away. I had forgotten how much I truly enjoy this country and all it has to offer. One look out at the vista from our 3rd floor balcony this morning was all it took to get my adrenaline going once again. After a delayed flight and long Customs line I finally got out of the airport aound 2 am only to be met with a flat tire while trying to make it http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Honduras/San-Pedro-Sula/blog-405881.html After waking up at 600am this morning driving to Phoenix flying to Houston and getting a plane to San Pedro Sula. We have arrived safe and sound at out Hotel Honduras Plaza. The plane was a nice suprise as they stuck me in the middle of a group of missionaries at the back of the plane. Dios Mio Luckily they played High School Musical 3 on the TVs for free so I was spared any potential http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Honduras/San-Pedro-Sula/blog-381537.html Und dann ab nach Honduras. Zum ersten Mal im Leben einfach zu Fuss ueber eine Grenze gelaufen haben uns mit dem Mini Van bis kurz davor gebracht und dann lauft man einfach drueberDavor noch viele Leute die einem anbieten Geld zu wechseln ist immer ein schlechterer Kurs als anderswo aber ohne Landeswaehrung geht halt dann auch nichts und was will man mit Quetzales in HondurasNach der Grenze http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Honduras/San-Pedro-Sula/blog-364392.html Arriving in San Pedro Sula can be a somewhat confusing affair particularly for North Americans used to being led by the hand. It's pretty typical for airline employees to sort of open the doors and let you off while staying aboard till the next flight. I've been told this is sometimes due to customs regulations. In times past being left outside on the tarmac was pretty common at this airport b http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Honduras/San-Pedro-Sula/blog-360764.html My initial plan was to take the boat from Placencia to Puerto Cortes Honduras which leaves on Fridays and then take the bus to San Pedro Sula. However I had a nightmare about the boat trip the week prior to leaving so decided to take a plane instead. How strange the way things work out but so right at the same timeI got to the Placencia Airport to take my 8 30 am flight after taking my fir http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Honduras/San-Pedro-Sula/blog-359485.html My friend S. was spending three weeks traveling through Central America Guatemala to Costa Rica. When I found out I could get a few extra days off work I decided to join him for part of the trip first flying into San Pedro Sula and meeting up in Copan Ruinas. We would then travel overland via El Salvador and back through Honduras to Nicaragua where I would fly out of Managua 6 days later. Th http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Honduras/San-Pedro-Sula/blog-353490.html Stay here how long http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Honduras/San-Pedro-Sula/blog-332686.html LEMPIRA After all this talk about Lempira Honduran currency you are probably wondering where the term Lempira came from. Well itrsquos named after the countryrsquos first hero Lempira ldquoMan of the Mountainrdquo who led the Lenca original Honduran people in a war against the Spaniards when the Spaniards came to conquer Honduras. Lempira was the last surviving chief because http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Honduras/San-Pedro-Sula/blog-328796.html Planes from LAX to Honduras leave at 150 am and after 15 hours of flying wersquore here As you may or may not know I do not love flying so I enjoyed my favorite blue friend a nice Tylenol PM to put me to sleep through most of the flight to El Salvador. Before passing out and performing my flying ritual I met an interesting and funny woman with a great name Zariah. She immigrated from http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Honduras/San-Pedro-Sula/blog-324119.html San Petro Sula 25 marzo 1990.I watch this arid centralamerican world go by from the closed environment of an old and crappy honduran bus on the way to San Petro Sula. I039m the only gringo aboard and I039m probably just as smelly as the local indios and latinos I travel with.My jeans my shirt my face and hair covered in a light brown residue of sand caused by the dust of the unpaved ro http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Honduras/San-Pedro-Sula/blog-314363.html We got up at 6am and set of to the bus station for the 7am bus. we found our way to Ocotal and changed bus for the border crossing. We reached and crossed the border really easily and hit Honduras around 10am. This is where things got interesting. As soon as we crossed we saw 3 other backpackers who said the buses throughout Honduras we on strike they had to pay 50 to get to the capital. We didn http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Honduras/San-Pedro-Sula/blog-303735.html Our last night on Roatan we ate fish tacos made of a Wahoo that had been caught on my fishing trip a few days before. I brought the fish in steaks to the place where wersquod been having the tacos at the whole time wersquod been here and asked if they would cook it for us because we had no kitchen. The cook a woman took one look in the bag and her eyes bulged. She spoke Spanish and I didn http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Honduras/San-Pedro-Sula/blog-261477.html So i got up at 6am and i had the squirts which was a great start maybe it was the ice in my drinks last night or maybe my stomach as issues with central america..........lolSo anyway i headed out of the hostel after taking some imdoium and got a truck to the bus terminal and then i got a chicked bus to Chendega as per the Lonely Planet guide it took forever and would have stopped for a chicke http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Honduras/San-Pedro-Sula/blog-244356.html So here we are in San Pedro Sula in Honduras a pretty nondescript ugly rather violent town in northern honduras. Apart from that its really nice.Our last entry was from Antigua where before our departure we studied more spanish and climbed another volcano. This one had lava that you could fall into. We toasted marshmallows. Well I say toast we made marshmallows combust into a ball of flame http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Honduras/San-Pedro-Sula/blog-238559.html Sitting down today we realised that we hadnrsquot updated our blog for a long time and that we have been stamped in and out of six countries since our last update so apologies in advance if this one is a long oneOur last entry was from Caye Caulker off Belize just after the hurricane took a diversion away and saved us from having to rearrange our plans.We had a great time relaxing on Caye C http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Honduras/San-Pedro-Sula/blog-207406.html Mike and I got in at about 1130 last night despite our plane being about 30 min late. Thankfully someone from the hostel met us at the airpot and gave us a ride here and even stopped at an ATM on the way. He admitted he was very relieved to see us...he was expecting a gay couple I had emailed him and he thought I was a guy and had said I was coming with my boyfriend lol. But it was a ni http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Honduras/San-Pedro-Sula/blog-197993.html