Big Cities, Honduras

We spent one night in San Pedro Sula and 2 nights in Tegucigalpa en route to Nicaragua.

San Pedro Sula we stayed in a run down hotel but it had tv which was good. We ended up going to a mall to catch a movie. The mall was exactly like the ones in Canada, you wouldn´t even be able to tell the difference unless you could hear people talking around you. All the shops names were in english and the good court was full of every fast good you could think of, Quiznos to KFC. We went to see Avatar which was FREAKING AMAZING!!!! It was in English with Spanish subtitles, Ian said most Hollywood movies are played that way down here.

The next day we took a first class bus and rode in the first class section of the first class bus to Tegucigalpa. The seats almost reclined all the way and had foot rests! Then we stayed in a rediculously expensive hotel complete with bell boys (we could have stayed for more than 10 days in Copan for what we paid for one night in this hotel) but we wanted a bit of decadence before we started slumming it again. The hotel room reminded me of a 1970´s apartment. It had 2 floors with a TV on each floor. We went out for Sushi, which was good but Vancouver is still better. It was interesting trying the different fish they served. We drank a couple bottles of saki too. Then we took a taxi to the supermarket and stocked up on port, rum and beer, microwave dinners and the fixings for guacamole and spent the rest of the day and night watching TV in our room.

Sunday, Jan 10, we went to the bus depot to get the bus to Nicaragua only to find that the bus was full, so we spent another night in Tegucigalpa. We had a little issue with the taxi driver wanting us to pay way way way more than we were supposed to, but we just gave him what we paid the other drivers and got out fast. We stayed in a hotel that was half the price as the other one and still had a nice suite with Cable TV. We stayed in bed from about 9am to 1pm then went out to find food. We came across a Little Ceasars Pizza, so we got enough for lunch and dinner so we wouldn´t have to go out again. Then we spent the rest of the day watching TV and eating pizza in bed. Totally Rad!

Tegucigalpa was an interesting City. We didn´t really feel safe there that´s why we spent most of the time indoors. It´s a sprawling urbad centre, not too many high rises, that´s more San Pedro Sula. Tegucigalpa is only the political capital. All the industrial and financial business goes on in San Pedro.

I´m glad to be out of the big cities now. We are finally in Nicaragua in a big small town called Leon, about half an hour from the pacific coast. We´ll spend a few days here before we head to the beach. Leon is beautiful, it has one of the biggest Cathedrals in Central America and it looks old. It´s safe here to walk around at night, which is nice as it gets dark at 6pm. Looking forward to exploring this old town.