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January 23rd 2008
So, here we are in San Pedro Sula in Honduras, a pretty nondescript, ugly, rather violent town in northern honduras. Apart from that it´s 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 f ... read more

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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