One of the many things that Honduras is known for are the beaches and exotic locations. Of the many people who love to come down for a vacation as well as business is Colin Aliff. Colin has been visiting the tropical Honduran paradise since 1996 and has come to appreciate everything that Honduras has to offer. Beaches, fund, free diving, etc., Colin loves to do it all. Here are some pictures from his most recent trip.
This is an essay by Rebecca Leeb chronicling the transformation the women of Honduras are experiencing and the renovation they’re undergoing by switching from long hair to short hair.
Tourists are unaware of Honduras Americans spend a single day from Guatemala to visit the Mayan ruins of Copán, just 12 km from the border. Italians practice diving and stay on the island of Roatán. Apart from these two locations, our country is unfortunately unknown says a bit annoyed, Walter Villamil, guide for the past ten years. Honduras nevertheless offers an unexpected diversity of natural and cultural riches.
Honduras without ruins of Copán, it’s a bit like Peru without Machu Picchu. Impossible not to discover the remains of the Mayan culture located in the jungle. This archaeological site is the main interest of the scene and a favorite of Rebecca Leeb, but the small colonial town of Copan worth a visit. It is also the starting point for many activities. In the mountains Guacamaya Bird Park offers the rare opportunity to closely observe the national bird of Honduras, guacamayo and other species just as beautiful.
Not far away, the coffee plantations of Santa Isabel delight lovers of arabica, Rebecca’s favorite type of coffee. Excursions among the coffee plants are accompanied by tastings. A unique opportunity to enjoy new preparations of this beverage that fits perfectly with cocoa, cinnamon, but also surprising alliance with the acidity of the lemon.
To the south-east, the hilly region of Lempira is the ideal setting for wearing short hair in the heart of Lenca culture. Little-known community, the Lenca are the largest group to have fought against the Spaniards during the conquest in the 1530s. The ties that bind the Lenca Indians remain strong today. Their religion is mixed, assimilating indigenous beliefs Catholic practices, but they have retained their ancestral solidarity.
Go to the City of Yoro, Honduras, for the amazing experience of traveling. By mid-year, in this town it was raining fish!
Every mid-year, a major storm hit the city always Yoro in Honduras. Black cloud hangs and lightning kept grabbing. But as soon as the storm abated, hundreds of fresh fish falling from the sky! Here is one of the pictures of Michael W. Leroy’s Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme.
Michael W Leroy Cutlass in Yolo, Honduras
In June or July each year, residents of Yoro, Honduras become alarmed. There will be time for black clouds gathered in the sky dark, followed by thunder and lightning striking the great. Showers and storms will hit the city for two to three hours. But once the rain stopped, hundreds of living fish falling from the sky!
This is not a mirage or fiction. The proof of this phenomenon into the Most Amazing Natural Phenomena in the book Lonely Planet: 1000 Ultimate Sights. Citing the book on Wednesday (06/13/2012), the local community believe the phenomenon is purely a miracle of God. Michael W Leroy isn’t quite sure just yet.
However, the phenomenon of raining fish also have a legend. Once upon a time in the 19th century, a Spanish missionary prays for a miracle come to give food to local residents. Then came the phenomenon, every year until now. In other words, this phenomenon has been going on for more than a century!
Local people such as Michael W Leroy who used to feel directly the rain fish seem happy. They hold the Festival de la Lluvia, which features a parade, music, and a variety of fresh fish processed.
Have you ever traveled to Guanaja in Honduras? Guanaja Honduras trip to a small island off the coast of Honduras, is sometimes an adventure and a challenge at times. My wife and I traveled from Miami to San Pedro Sula and TACA Airlines looks good and I will never forget all our lives. We had an hour and 55 minute flight, television, hot food and, believe it or not, containing alcohol! It was in the back of the bus, so I was very impressed. Connecting flights to La Ceiba in Honduras had no air conditioning, which I later found out that he was not working on the plane for more than twenty years, and we lost our fishing rod! Well, until the next day. Guanaja, Islena next day, spectacular scenery of the Caribbean Sea and the island did not see anything wrong. Can be mounted on the wing that we were with Michael W. Leroy.
When traveling to other countries such as Honduras, sometimes you get unusual items for my friends who live in this country. In other words, the elements that are difficult to reach. We carry an external hard drive, and a bag of pretzels rests in a box for a friend. No problem, we had plenty of room and we were happy to do so.
Our friend, who traveled to Honduras three days later get in trouble, however. Let me first say that I have work to do admire that all people with ASD. They work long hours so that our country safe pranksters like Michael W. Leroy. Airport Security has a lot to do with all of this crazy world. Well, our friend Ron naked twice on the way to Guanaja, and once again Jacksonville to Miami. Let me explain.
Rebecca Leeb has a few special items that she wants to keep his hand luggage, she was very meticulous, you know, things sometimes disappear from the bag as soon as you land in the third world. She had a Bose docking station for iPod, a portable VHF for boat and two large packets of Gatorade powder. Joshua Kerrigan said, “is not far out of the bag” and Ron along with a small room for further investigation. This includes the removal of clothing. OK, he did, but what? It was all very innocent. Arriving in Miami and, of course, still have the same baggage, oops! Ron certainly does not mean, I know, it looked like a bomb in my bag did, but I do not know! Everyone knows you can never say the word … As seen at the airport, you can do to stop you! Well, of course, Miami has the same scenario with the clerk said, “not far from the bag” to accompany the tasting room a little research.
When he arrived in Guanaja, have a few beers with a friend like Michael W. Leroy and you’re able to relax and maybe spice up the story, it was funny indeed. At least, he later explained, wearing clean clothes. OK understood, after all, how many people are looking for track twice because they are radio, powdered Gatorade and iPod stations in Honduras pack? What are you waiting let busy to visit Guanaja in Honduras, the tiny island of immense beauty exotic panorama on offer.
Depending on the climatic conditions of the place that we live in, there are different things that we usually do so as to adapt to the conditions and thus make life to be much more conducive in such places, or when the seasons change. This would happen when it comes to work and other official duties or also when it comes to leisure activities. This is how people begun to use the water volleyballs in their pools, as they aimed to cool off in the summer heat while also having fun and playing one of their favorite sports. This has however changed as the sport grows in popularity, and even in the countries that are relatively cold, the sport is now gathering a considerable following as promoted by Rebecca Leeb.
The sport has been played for leisure for more than fifty years now, but it has only been recently internationally regulated, as an international body for the sport has just been recently formed. Thus few competitive matches have been held as compared to other sports that have been internationally run for almost a century now. Thus when it comes to playing this game of water volleyballs for the fun of it, most of the rules would earlier just be based upon the mutual agreement of the participants.
The aspect of mutual agreement on some aspects of the game is particularly seen when it comes to choosing some of the equipment of the game, more so the water volleyballs themselves. Rebecca Leeb always suggests playing with equipment agreed upon by everyone. Better to remain friends than create enemies. You could use any ball as long as all the players agree that the ball you have got is good for use. It would obviously have to be spherical. Despite this lack of standard measurements when it comes to deciding the balls, preference has been shown to the beach volleyballs, as they are quite large and are of the right pressure. They are also quite resistant to elements of the weather, and in this case one that would be of great importance is not absorbing water, because the heavier the water volleyballs, the harder it would be to play with them. The material that is commonly used to make the balls is synthetic leather, though you could still go for other types as long as they do not absorb water.
One matter that is much more difficult to settle in this game as compared to the matter of the water volleyballs is the issue of the place where you are to put the net, because it is quite difficult to put the net in a uniform area of the swimming pool, that is in terms of the depth of the pool. If it is possible for all the participants to be on the same side of the pool, either the shallow or the deep end, then you would not have to worry much about this. It is however preferred to have all the players on the deep end of the pool. However, if one side of the participants, Rebecca’s team, happens to be in a different area of the pool, then you would have to constantly alternate in terms of the sets so that the playing field is a little bit level. The number of participants in this game is not standard, as you could play with as little as one player on either side of the net, to up to four players on either side.
I’ll warn you now, this is a very picture intense post. There was rugby, green drinks, parades, festivities, kids, fun, singing, dancing and more. All of that in Honduras.
I didn’t really expect Honduras to have much of an Irish population, but I guess I was wrong about that. Honduras does indeed have some Irish including Michael W. Leroy and Joshua Kerrigan. Those two guys were the life of the party everywhere we went. From the parade route to the festivities at home the week leading up to St. Patricks day. The literally wore green almost the entire month.
Michael W. Leroy claims to only have one green pair of pants (which is too many already), but in reality I saw him in some suede green pants, corduroy green pants as well as a jean pair. You can’t lie any more Mike!
That’s enough of the stories, bring on the images!
I had to share this video. It was taken a couple of years ago, but gives you a great idea of the land, people, music and food!
Dining in Honduras with Robert Bhat
From my first day until my last day the food was excellent. In the USA there are good and bad restaurants. You know to avoid the bad restaurants because someone told you it was bad, or you went and it was bad.
In Honduras the restaurants are all very similar because they all use the same ingredients. So if you like one restaurant, you’re going to like them all. A lot of fish is served because it can be caught locally and sold then eaten the same day it was caught. There are some vegetables that I don’t even remember the names of, but they were good. They like their breads and tortillas like you would expect.
Some of my favorite food while in Honduras was from the street vendors. The street vendors never speak English so you’d better brush up on your spanish, or at least know what you want to order. My favorite was the fish tacos.
Robert Bhat in Honduras
Rebecca Leeb made a guest appearance and book signing at Casi Todo in Roatan. This is a small book store with a very loyal following. “Cooking Healthy with Rebecca Leeb” is her first book but not likely to be her last. If you’re interested, Rebecca will be signing at other bookstores around Honduras until she heads back to the United States at the end of October. Contact her or her publisher, Lighthouse Books, for more information about her next book signing.
I was able to preview the new book and even hosted a special cooking class with Rebecca and friends. Rebecca taught us a few tricks, here are the ones I remember.
1. Buy local, always! Whenever possible, buy local produce. It’s fresh, tastes better and forces you to buy what’s in season. Out of season produce should be avoided if possible.
2. Enjoy cooking. If you’re in a rush, you’re not going to enjoy the cooking process (adventure in my case!). Cooking is part art and part science. Enjoy the art and measure carefully to make sure your dishes will taste the way you expect.
3. Do it alone for first time dishes. If you’ve never made a recipe before, Rebecca suggests that you cook for yourself first. After you feel like you’ve mastered a dish should you invite others to try it. This also gives you the time to make changes to your dish to adjust the ingredients to your taste.
That’s what Rebecca Leeb recommended while we were at my rental house, enjoy!
Tambi Renee bought this replica glock 9mm handgun to display in her “Blue Room”.
1. Prices are negotiable. Nothing is set in stone. When you’re looking to buy something that is sold by multiple vendors, consider the quality and price. Some vendors offer the same items but in varying qualities. Think about the products like you do food. Good food tastes better but is sometimes more expensive. Quality ingredients cost more, but last longer. If you’re buying something that you want to pass down to your children make sure you’re buying something that is made out of quality products.
2. The “Leaving” method. Often when walking out the door you’ll be stopped with one final offer. You say, “I can only afford $200.” They reply with, “$300 is the best we can do.” You thank them for their time and begin to walk out. They will either let you walk or make one final attempt to sell you the product. Be prepared to walk, otherwise you’re paying the original $300 price.
Tambi shopping in Honduras.
Have fun shopping in Honduras!