More from Honduras

Honduras is certainly a beautiful country. After visiting Roatan we headed back to the mainland of Honduras. We visited a lake on the weekend called Lake Yojoa. While we were there we drove out to this beautiful waterfall. It's a very popular hangout for Hondurans. We were amazed by all the people we saw there. It is in quite a remote area but once you get there you find out it's very crowded. The waterfall is huge and so pretty, surrounded by so much greenery. We loved it.

This is the little hotel we stayed at by the lake, although our cabin didn't look this nice :)

Lake Yojoa.

Having dinner at Lake Yojoa. I love the traditional Honduran dinner. It's pretty much what I always ordered. It includes steak with this yummy garlic sauce called Chimichurri, refried beans, rice, queso fresco, little tortillas and a banana drizzled with cream. I also loved the fried plantains (I swear they're better than french fries) and an appatizer called anafres which consists of beans and rice served in a clay pot.

The fresh juices in Honduras are to die for. Every restaurant has them. I especially loved watermelon juice and blackberry juice. mmm... I miss it already!

Here's a picture of Mike in front of his little cabin.

Here are the bathrooms he has to go to across the street.

Inside the hootch (I don't know why, but that's what the little cabins on base are called - kinda strange, I know)

The rest of these pictures are just typical scenes in Honduras.

Mike likes to call this the "public bus system."


This is really what most of the Honduran homes look like.

Here's another example.


Check out this meat for sale. Mmmm... The dog seems pretty interested anyway.


Traffic jam.



Carrying a large piece of wood while riding a bike. I have to point out that the tiny little towns along this road are each about 10 miles apart. I'm not really sure where this guy is going to or coming from.

Just getting around.

The Honduran pass. Note that they are probably going about 60 miles an hour. I'm not really sure why those men are hanging out the van like that. And that huge truck in front was dropping his load all over the road. Mike seriously had to swerve to miss being hit!

Close up.

Another example of the Honduran bus.

There are people selling honey all along this mountainous road.

These birds were on display next to a restaurant we ate at.

This is on base. Those goats are property of the Honduran commander of the base. Apparently they roam free and sometimes attack. You really have to watch yourself around them! Mike about died one morning when he came out of the bathroom and accidentally got between a mama goat and her kid. He had to run as fast as he could to his hootch. Good times.

From Anna's Visit - Lake & Base

I'm not really sure what this guy was thinking.