Welcome to the Travel Archives of Connected Horizons! Read our articles, guides and experiences from the time we spent in Honduras!
We decide to finally leave Los Naranjos, a small village on Lake Yojoa, and keep following toward the south: next destination Comayagua. The bus that connects Los Naranjos to Tegucigalpa (and stops in Comayagua) passes through town at 6:20am, leaving you the time to enjoy a beautiful sunset from the bus stop. Once the bus…
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This morning we finally leave the Hotel Liberteño (what a horrible but cheap place to stay) and head toward the Texaco gasoline pump in just outside the city centre of Comayagua. Although so far everybody has told us that there are no buses going down south without having to change in Tegucigalpa, we see the…
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Tiger Islanda.k.a Amapala, is located just off the south coast of Honduras in the Pacific Ocean and shares the gorgeous Gulf of Fonseca with several other islands belonging both to El Salvador and Nicaragua. Read also our post on Tiger Island! In the past, stories say that Sir Francis Drake (an english corsair later named…
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On the way to discover the Lenca Route in the south of Honduras, we also decide to make a stop in Gracias. This time the little town is very laid-back, the streets are colorful, the central plaza is pretty and all around the city there’s a lot of cool little spots to visit. Here we…
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Another early 6am wake up this morning! After yesterday’s invitation to join Eduardo and Manuel on their adventures in the area of Copan Ruinas, how couldn’t we say yes? The job of these guys is to repair telecommunication towers and even though they’re from El Salvador, they operate also in Guatemala & Honduras. Having them…
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This is the first town we visited in Honduras! After having crossed the border of El Salvador at El Poy earlier today and having found a blocked road because of the political protests (more and more common in these days), we have finally reached Santa Rosa de Copan. Luckily, the aim of the protest was…
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After yesterday’s relaxed afternoon at D&D Brewery (read Nature Walking in lake Yojoa), today we want to do something more adventurous and explore the nature surrounding the beautiful Lake of Yojoa. Upon asking at the reception, we get told that there is indeed a nice nature path (Cerro de “Las Nalgas”) to do which leads…
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This morning its another early wake up. The last couple of days we’ve been exploring the picturesque architecture of Gracias, its fort, museums and super tasty baleadas but today is time to move on to our next destination: Lake Yojoa. On the 27th January, the recently voted president (cause of the many riots and protests…
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