"The first time I saw Ol’ Tom, I thought heese gonna eat me,” said a woman on Jewel Cay. “Ol’ Tom?” I asked. “Dats what we call da whale sharks here on da cays,” she explained. “We wuz lookin for da Bonita ad we saw lotsa birds flyon’ about. Den we seen…
Late last year, around the time the Honduran president was being overthrown in a military coup, my 1st Edition Frommer's Honduras travel guide was released. Tourism in the country, which was previously exploding, dropped to almost nothing, even in the Bay Islands that are nearly a country of their…
On the stretch of road along Lago de Yojoa - Honduras’ largest natural lake an a fine bird watching spot (actually one of the best on earth), on the San Pedro Sula-Tegucigalpa highway, there’s a line of about 40 small restaurants all serving the same thing: a lake fish fried…
In attraction-starved San Pedro Sula, Honduras, you have better luck finding an air-conditioned mall and an Applebee’s then anything of real culinary interest. That is if you don’t know where to look.…
In El Salvador there are pupusas. In Mexico there are tacos. In Honduras there are Baleadas. The simple version consists of a thick flour – though sometimes corn - tortilla that has been put on a charcoal grill. It's slathered in refried black beans and a bit of white farmer's…
