Guards

Honduras (short)

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June 8th 2009
On a tough travel day, I took six different buses totalling 18 hours of driving, crossed the border, saw thousands of gunned guards in Tegucigalpa ready to shoot at someone (wishing it was not me), hitchhiked at night in a forest (yes, I could have chosen a better place and time) to finally arrive at my hostel/micro brewery on the edges of lake Yojoa. On the following day, I went on a bird wat ... read more

Central America Caribbean » Honduras

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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