http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Honduras/Gracias/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from Central America Caribbean , Honduras , Gracias en-us Wed, 08 Oct 2008 06:51:42 BST Wed, 08 Oct 2008 06:51:42 BST This trip has been absolutly incredible I keep having amazing interactions and experiences and then I think Wow it really cant get better than this But then it does My life feels like a whirlwind right now. So many amazing experiences and I am just trying to take it all in. I feel so lucky. I am actually doing it I have planned for and anticipated this trip for so long. Now I am in the thic http://www.travelblog.org//Central-America-Caribbean/Honduras/Gracias/blog-306412.html After Esteli I took a quick bus ride to Ocotal which is very close to the border between Nicaragua and Honduras. I stayed there for a night. While I was there I met a young woman who was from Ocotal and wanted to practice her english. She had learned her english from tourist and from music and her englishwas quite amazing. She has worked with both Lonely Planet and Moon Handbooks on thier Nicaragu http://www.travelblog.org//Central-America-Caribbean/Honduras/Gracias/blog-305189.html Perched precariously over the cliff edge I watch the clouds wisp by below as I puff on a 5 cent hand rolled cigar. Sitting on the boarder of safety and danger with hundreds of feet of air dangling beneath my feet fills me with a sense of being alive. The soothing echo of the 1000 ft water fall and the calming sound of wind rustling through the trees as it blows the shifting clouds over the r http://www.travelblog.org//Central-America-Caribbean/Honduras/Gracias/Parque-Nacional-Celaque/blog-300089.html Hello everyone and Happy New Year Im in a town called Gracias in western Honduras at the moment and am having a lazy day. So I thought it would be a good time to catch up on things. I guess when we last talked I was in Xela just before Christmas. I spent Christmas with the family Id been staying with. Me mom daughter two cousins and a german girl that was also living with them. The typical http://www.travelblog.org//Central-America-Caribbean/Honduras/Gracias/blog-233796.html We visited a town called Gracias. Gracias is 'Thank You' in Spanish and the town was named when explorers finally found a flat area of land for a settlement after hiking through the mountains and said 'Gracias a Dios' or 'Thank God'.It took 2 buses and a minivan to get to Gracias from Tegucigalpa via La Esperanza and San Juan. In the minivan I Rae sat in the front squished with the gearstick and http://www.travelblog.org//Central-America-Caribbean/Honduras/Gracias/blog-227155.html I put up the pictures from my stay here first and now for some reason Im not in the mood to write much. So Ill see what I can do... I think the fotos tell more anyway.I had a great 3 nights in Gracias. Its a charming little town up in the mountains and life there is very simple. Most people are living off the land and there is not much else for work so this region was also very poor. I had http://www.travelblog.org//Central-America-Caribbean/Honduras/Gracias/blog-111174.html The next stop on our trip was Gracias and from there a hike out to the Celaque National Park and Honduras' highest peak at 2894m. We only spent a night in Gracias trying to organise ourselves for our trip. We had been told that a lot of the hotels rented camping equipment so we went round to have a look. The first two places we went to didn't have anything and then we saw a pricelist for equipmen http://www.travelblog.org//Central-America-Caribbean/Honduras/Gracias/Parque-Nacional-Celaque/blog-102192.html