Blogs from Central America Caribbean - page 2144

Caldo de Calzado Hello dear readers, I've finally caught up to date with my journal entries and thus it is time for another edition of Caldo de Calzado, my attempt at a travel food column. We've made our way down the northern coast of Honduras from Tela to the small Garifuna villages of La Encenada and Triumfo de la Cruz, to La Ceiba where I'm presently writing you from. La Rustique First up on the agenda, a restaurant recommendation for anyone in la Ceiba that we checked out late last night. The little place called La Rustique is on the corner of St. Isidore and 3a Calle on the third floor of this little unassuming building. You could easily miss it, but look for the palapa and red Christmas lights on their rooftop terrace and you ... read more

This park is riddled with a variety of people, merchants, travlers and starving-scamming children all dressed in their sunday best (although it{s only Saturday)... read more

Granada is a beautiful city. Guide books qualification as a colonial marvel really is an understatement. These impeccably clean streets are a delight to walk and views of almost ancient buildings and churches as well as active city street folk make the journey vibrantly colorful. As I walked this morning I saw a few things including the cathedral and the central park I had seen them last night but without my camera. Here are a few shots of the city life, horse drawn taxies women selling flowers and fruit as well as the central fountain juxtaposed (did you like that Wezie?) against the Cathedral in the background.... read more

I´ve changed my mind about Nicaragua, although I never did fall in love with Granada. Maybe Leon is just more my style. Nicaragua on the whole, however, is ranking right up there with Guatemala for me now.... I am loving it here! I ended up in Granada for a few days, again sucked in by an always-fun, all-inclusive hostel called The Bearded Monkey. I met Debra, Tom and Jim in the hostel bar at the end my first slightly traumatic day. We ended up at a disco, dancing to the Nica (Nicaraguan) beats, and became fast friends. The next day, I decided to visit Lago de Apoyo, a Crater Lake just outside of Granada. About eight of us piled into the back of a pickup truck, had innertubes dumped on top of us and arrived a ... read more

Spent the last three days in this Garifuna village, apparently the second largest Garifuna village in the world. This is a side of Latin America I’ve never seen before. The Garifuna settled the north coast of Central America, coming from the Caribbean Islands over 200 years ago. Their original landfall was on one of the Bay Islands just of the coast from here, and from there they have spread out along the coast from Belize at least as far as Nicaragua, and perhaps further, I don’t know. There is not much to do here. It is stiflingly hot. If you just sot perfectly still, it’s fine, but the moment you stand up and start to walk sweat starts pouring from you. The village is a collection of randomly placed concrete houses stretching along two or three ... read more