Cruising

The small community of Bélen

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August 29th 2008
Soon enough after returning from Yamari to Brus Laguna we were piled back into a big dugout canoe and were on our way to the second stop - Bélen (Bethlehem). The views along the way were great and we saw all the usual things you might expect like kids swimming and jumping off boats, people doing their washing, people fishing and even a dugout canoe loaded up with cows they had some how persuaded ... read more

Central America Caribbean » Honduras » Western » Belén

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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