Teaching in Honduras!: Beach

After the parade on Tuesday we found out that there was no school on Wednesday or Thursday, so we could go to the beach right away! We decided to go to a beach town called Tela, which is on the north coast. My town, Juticalpa is pretty inconveniently located to travel anywhere, so you always have to first take a three hour bus ride to the capital, Tegucigalpa. That Tuesday we left to go to Teguc, and then left early in the morning on Wednesday. It was about a 5-6 hour bus ride and then we were there! Found a great hotel with ac, hot water, kitchen and living room in it - all for $8 a person!

The whole trip was really great and relaxing. I spent a lot of time just hanging out on the beach, walking around, jumping off the pier, I snuck into the resort and swam in their nice pool, went down the water slide, and jumped on the water trampoline!

Then one day we took a boat just the nine of us gringos and that was a FANTASTIC day! We went to an island that is across the Caribbean a little bit. Here the water was the perfect color aqua, and the island is a national park so it is protected from being built up and destroyed. I saw two dolphins and a lot of flying fish on the boat ride over! Then I walked around through the rainforest, swam through a cave in the island, and snorkeled on a coral reef. The snorkeling was amazing because there were so many types of colorful fish and types of coral. (Dad you would have LOVED it!) I could have spent hours and hours there, just swimming around looking at everything. After snorkeling we went to another part of the island where we ate a great lunch. The place that cooks the food doesnt even have any type of refrigeration so the fish I ate had to be caught that morning!

The next day I went to one of the world's largest botanical gardens. It was really pretty seeing all types of plants, tress, and flowers. There was a really nice river too that we swam in! Overall the trip was really great and I loved seeing another part of Honduras. It seems like Juticalpa is a pretty strange part of Honduras that keeps to itself. It has it's own culture, like everyone carrying a gun around. That doesn't happen everywhere else. Still it's nice to come "home" to olancho and be back with my kids...