No-one even stirring

Marooned on Utila....

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June 30th 2007
Utila lay at the end of a long, harrowing journey involving poorly maintained 1960's American school buses, extremely shady immigration officials and procedures at the Nicaragua-Honduras border, a couple of nights in less than desirable locations in Tegucigalpa and La Ceiba, and a one hour ferry ride across violent seas. Though it was only 370 odd kms between our origin and our destination, the tr ... read more

Central America Caribbean » Honduras » Bay Islands » Utila

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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