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Sunny Days, Palm Trees and Sandy Streets

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Roads? Who Needs Roads? Travels in the Mosquito Coast

June 30th 2008
La Moskitia (or The Mosquito Coast) in Honduras is the most sparsely populated region of any of the countries I´ll visit on this trip. There´s hardly anybody out here, and the small number of indigenous Miskito, Pech and Tawhaka people that do live out here commute between villages in dugout canoes (usually fashioned from a single tree trunk) along the many waterways out here - there simply a ... read more
Central America Caribbean » Honduras » Eastern » Río Plátano Biosphere Reserve

Honduran Flag 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
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