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  • Richard EllisThe Americas
    Day 140

    Honduras (in a flash)

    March 6, 2017 in Honduras ⋅ 🌬 35 °C

    Does it count?

    As far as having been to Honduras goes, I'd say I haven't. But when customs asks me where I've been I'd have to say yes, as my passport tells me so. So it gets a footprint and you can feel free to post argumentative comments either way below (that's you Johnny, Jools and Scott).

    We were in Honduras for around six hours. Five hours and fourty minutes of that was spent on transport - two buses (excluding the one that broke down!) and a pick up. Eighteen of those were at customs upon exiting. And the final two were 'shopping'. Shopping for food. Which is more like running around trying to find something other than whole melons, green bananas or coca-cola with people yelling at you when you don't have time or ignoring you when you want something - all the while with one eye peeled to the bus you left your bag on to make sure it won't be the last time you see it.

    It was continuing off the back of the 4.5 hours we bused in El Salvador and somewhat nerve racking as we raced the clock - the Nicaraguan border closes at 6pm!

    We made it in the nick of time, thanks partly to some hasty driving from our driver in the ute, who valued timeliness much more than our lives. As we literally dived into the tray with our bags and sped off. The entire time all we wanted was to send a message to arrange a pick up on the other side of the Nicaraguan border. No wifi for the last few hours meant we needed to con a local into making a call, which we were able to do but the success of the call remained a mystery.

    Fortunately after much faffing by the border staff (seriously, I cannot fathom what difficulty they face when their job is to scan an E-passport!?) we made it to Nicaragua. We were panicking as to how we would progress from here (its pretty isolated at El Espiño) when Brian from Somoto Canyon Tours emerged from the fading light to offer us a ride to our cabins. We were so grateful! I lay in the tray on top of our bags in the cooling breeze, rushing towards our cabins and so glad for that day to be over!

    In summary, it was one car, four buses, two pick up trucks, two border crossings and three countries for a grand distance of only 360 kilometres in a fatiguing 12 hours. Job done. Game on Nicaragua!    Read more

  • Holly and KarlSouthward Bound
    Day 255

    Honduras Hospitality

    April 13, 2016 in Honduras ⋅ ⛅ 36 °C

    The crossing into Honduras was fairly straightforward. You provide your fingerprints (?!), pay US $3, get a passport stamp and off you go. We enjoyed a cool evening ride to a small town where we spent the night sweating in our tents as the temperature only dropped below 30 degrees during a 40-minute torrential downpour. The next day we rode through another small rain shower at sunrise, and spent the rest of the morning rolling over small dry hills, drinking hot water from our sun-baked bottles. We found an air conditioned cafe in Choluteca where we could cool down, and bought a huge watermelon to rehydrate before we headed to Warmshowers host Jamie's house. It turns out Jaime is living in another part of Honduras now, but his mom Carmen happily receives cyclists, providing great hospitality. After we washed up and each hand washed a large load of laundry we were treated to lunch and ice cold juice. We spent the afternoon relaxing and chatting with Carmen - who is originally from Spain, but met her husband, a Honduran, while he was studying in Spain, and eventually moved back to Honduras with him and raised their 5 children there. An early dinner, and early to bed, and we were up early ready to brave to the heat again before sunrise the next morning.Read more

  • TravelerLes Amériques
    Day 70

    Traversée du Honduras

    March 15, 2022 in Honduras ⋅ ☀️ 36 °C

    3 bus au final : el Amatillo - Choluteca - San Marcos - frontera. 🇭🇳
    Nous sommes étonnés du nombre d'éoliennes et dispositifs photovoltaïques vus en chemin.
    Les bus s'enchaînent assez bien et nous avons le dernier à moins cher car il nous reste "que" 51 limpias. David, un local rencontré dans le bus précédent, nous indique quel bus prendre, le jaune, et nous avait informé que c'était 20 pp. Le chauffeur nous demande finalement 30, mais n'ayants plus que 25,5 il accepte assez vite car doit tout de même être bien gagnant.Read more

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  • TravelerLateinamerika
    Day 260

    Willkommen in Honduras

    December 21, 2021 in Honduras ⋅ ☀️ 33 °C

    Willkommen beim Bösewicht Zentralamerikas! Wir sind bei unsrer Einreise nach Honduras aber alles andere als von böse guckenden Grenzbeamten ins Land gelassen worden. Ganz im Gegenteil: wir sind sogar sehr hilfsbereit in Empfang genommen worden, was bisher an keiner Grenze der Fall war. Die ersten Stunden Autofahrt in dem am wenigsten angesehenen Reiseziele Zentralamerikas, gestalten sich selbst während der zahlreichen schwer bewaffneten Polizeikontrollen als unproblematisch, um nicht zu sagen, fast amüsant. Der eine Cop hält uns an, nur um uns zu fragen, wie uns Honduras gefällt. Scheinbar war unsere Antwort: muy bien! die Richtige. Er hat keine weiteren Fragen, und keine weiteren Anliegen. Bei der nächsten Polizeikontrolle, sollen wir unsere Pässe vorzeigen. Einer liest laut unsere Nachnamen vor und versucht dabei einen deutschen Akzent mit dunkler, grimmiger Stimme nachzuahmen, woraufhin der andere Cop in lautes Gelächter ausbricht. Beide schmeissen sich weg vor lachen und kriegen sich fast nicht mehr ein. Kai und ich schauen uns verdutzt an und wollen ihnen in voreiligem Gehorsam unsere Autopapiere zeigen. Als ich dann dabei auch noch einige Wörter auf spanisch stammel, fängt ihre Lachsalve nochmals von neuem an. So stehen wir nun da, werden ausgelacht, und wissen auch nicht, was an Frau Risteski und Herrn Wübbenhorst so urkomisch ist. Irgendwie habe ich mir den Auftakt im gefährlichsten Land der Welt viel weniger lustig vorgestellt.
    Ich will es nicht kleinreden. Wahrscheinlich ist die Sicherheitslage bedenklich und 2012 wurde das Land zur traurigen Weltspitze im Hinblick auf die Mordrate gekürt. 2015 verlor Honduras den Titel allerdings ans benachbarte El Salvador. Aber ich kann zumindest von El Salvador sagen, dass uns dort rein gar nichts Kriminelles begegnet ist und wir überwiegend nette und interessierte Einheimische getroffen haben. Und ich hoffe und denke, dass es hier, bei vernünftigem Verhalten unsererseits genauso laufen wird.    Read more

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  • Elvis LivesElvis Lives Tour
    Day 352

    ..., Lunch in Honduras, ...

    May 3, 2017 in Honduras ⋅ ⛅ 34 °C

    Breakfast in El Salvador, lunch in Honduras & dinner in Nicaragua! To be honest, this is little more than a dot on the map so the app correctly counts this as another country. We were here 3 hours so I think that definitely counts...

    We breezed through El Salvador emigration but stalled at Honduras immigration (mainly due to going customs, bank, money changer (banks don't change money!), customs, bank, customs.

    Then there was a 3 hour drive across the southern end of the country before we had to do it all again. Fortunately when entering Nicaragua there was a nice guy selling mandatory insurance (a whopping $12 per month) who guided me through the process, so although it took over 2 hours it wasn't too stressful. Even Maya is now legally in Nicaragua - we couldn't hide her due to the compulsory fumigation inside & outside the van.

    As we got into the hills it looks like a beautiful country and I look forward to seeing a bit more of it next time around.    Read more

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