Archive for the ‘Honduras’

  • Untouched Natural Beauty of La Ceiba, Honduras Untouched Natural Beauty of La Ceiba, Honduras
    La Ceiba, close to Bay Islands of Roatan, Guanaja and Utila, is something more than the stopover island. For most of the Hondurans, it is a place to have fun and relax. The lively city has the benefit of a desirable setting, surrounded by Caribbean beaches to the north as well as to the south is the crests of the gorgeous Nombre de Dios Mountains. The peculiarity of the city is the old and new views. No other city, you will get to see pizza hut and horse-drawn delivery wagon side by side. Street stalls sell a range of merchandise close to the latest shopping centers. But, the actual appeals are endowed by nature. Cueroy Salado is the largest manatee reserves in the Central America, situated ten miles away from the La Ceiba. The reserve is home  [...]
    June 7th, 2010
  • After A Hectic Exploration of Mayas Ruins Visit Serene Beauty of Siguatepeque After A Hectic Exploration of Mayas Ruins Visit Serene Beauty of Siguatepeque
    Honduran department of Comayagua and a small town in the Central Mountains of Honduras, Siguatepeque is situated amid between two cities of Honduras: San Pedro Sula and Tegucigalpa. It’s a beautiful town, which has scenic views of mountains surrounding the town. The natural beauty of the town is unadulterated and still unknown to many visitors. Stay at the town will give you promising experience in the small town of Central America. Siguatepeque is precipitous in the clean air of its forested mountain vale location with a small number of motor vehicles and nil number of air-polluting industries. Many guests consider the town as a perfect place to settle enduringly because of its weather and climate, location, local hospitality and security. Said  [...]
    June 4th, 2010
  • Cradle of Mayas Civilization – Copan Honduras Cradle of Mayas Civilization – Copan Honduras
    Copan is a beautiful city with mixture of legendary past and a modern ambiance. America’s most known and important culture, Maya, still is thriving in the western region of the Honduras. Still in many parts of Honduras, you can see the traditional costumes and customs preserved. Copan is among the three largest and most unstinted cultural centers of the new world. The foundation of the Mayan was formed on the social-political base, in addition; they were expert in the fields of mathematics, astronomy and science. They even had developed hieroglyphs writing system, which helped to know about their historic evolution by translating it in epigraphs. The Maya art is the also impressive and evident to careful planning and lay out of the base of  [...]
    June 2nd, 2010
  • Base of the Mayas Ruins – San Pedro Sula Base of the Mayas Ruins – San Pedro Sula
    Honduras’ unendorsed industrial center as well as second biggest city is the San Pedro Sula. It is believed to be as economic heartland of Honduras, situated in the country’s northwest corner. San Pedro Sula has head offices of many well-known business, factories and plantations organizations. Most of the tourists who come to Honduras to discover Mayan remains in western moorland, select San Pedro Sula as their base to start the Mayan ruins exploration. History: In 1536, the city was established by Pedro de Alvarado as well as his fellow Spanish Conquistadors. Originally, the town was located on the swampland, amidst tropical forests where farming was inadequate. However, it did not matter much as the town was used as the Spanish Conquistador’s  [...]
    May 28th, 2010
  • Ostentatious Lake Yojoa, Honduras Ostentatious Lake Yojoa, Honduras
    Amid of huge mountains is situated Lake Yojoa.  Cerro Santa Barbara among those mountains is the second uppermost mountain, approximately 8,000 ft of height above sea level, in Honduras. The flora and fauna around the region on the mountains are under protection of Honduras. There are two national parks in this region, namely: on the Southern shore is Azul Meambar, and on the Northern shore is Santa Barbara. The union of water and vegetation form a remarkably different habitat that is house to numerous diverse types of bionetwork. Thus, the lake is a great place for bird watching as its home for more than 373 species of birds. The lake can be reached easily from Tegucigalpa and it is slightly away from San Pedro Sula. To stay at nearby hotels,  [...]
    May 12th, 2010
  • Bay Islands Honduras Bay Islands Honduras
    Honduras has many activities stored for the tourists like taking a look into the well-maintained Mayan ruins, trekking through the lush vegetation and diving into the world’s second largest coral reef. Being a small country compared to other states of America, still Honduras has many things to attract tourists from all over the world. Though it is part of the Central American, it’s a stereotypical country. Bay Island situated far away from the country, it looks like part of Caribbean Islands. The Bay Islands Honduras is favorite vacation destination and is popular for the beaches, diving and snorkeling. Bay Islands has a long adventurous history. In 1502, Christopher Columbus was the first to find these islands on his New World Voyages.  [...]
    May 1st, 2010