inside the butterfly farm

Roatan, Honduras

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January 24th 2011
Roatan, Honduras This is to be my favourite island, a place I would love to go back to, though I do not know it at the time for its exactly how I imagined a Caribbean islands to be: blue seas, quaint houses, tropical, lush vegetation, huge plants and still relatively untouched by tourism. But for how much longer? We visit the Carambola Botanical Gardens with its rare orchids, exotic ... read more

Central America Caribbean » Honduras » Bay Islands » Roatán

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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