Saturday, May 04, 2013

La Ceiba

Up early to pack and get breakfast from the guest house. They're so friendly here at the guest house (Dos Molinos, I think?). The hostel guy took us to the bus terminal at 9:00am and we got bus tickets to La Ceiba, about a 4 hour bus trip.

Tracy is quite entranced with the way people live here, so different than what we're used to in Canada (or any western, developed country).

At La Ceiba, we got a taxi to Parque Central, but he took us to his friends hotel, he probably gets a commission if we stay there. We didn't like it, not a great location, so we had him take us to a hotel near Parque Central (Hotel Iberia). It's a bit expensive, but oh well, only for one night.

We walked around downtown and went to talk to a jungle tour company, but she only spoke Spanish, so that was all for naught.

Went to Expatriate's Bar and Grill for supper. They served massive amounts of food, holy crap. After supper, we walked around some more as it was getting dark, including going to the beach. So horrible at the beach, so dirty, everything run down, lots of questionable locals hanging out there. The pier wasn't even a pier, it went way out into the water, but was just a bunch of pieces of wood laid out on top of posts in the water.

We went the hotel restaurant for a couple of drinks. They had really hot peppers sitting in a jar on the table, I told Tracy I'd buy her a dress or shorts if she ate one. She did it, her mouth was burning for about 30 minutes after that and she had the burning ring of fire the next morning.

In Honduras, I've never seen so many armed people. They are all over, including armed guards at restaurants. It's common to see people walking around own with a machine gun or a revolver at their hip or a riding a bike with a massive machete. It's all quite bizarre.

2 comments:

  1. Tracy, I hope you held Todd to his promise!!! I vote he should buy you a new dress - sock it to him! Ha.

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  2. He should buy a ring and propose! The dress can come later... Also - where are the pictures???

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