D133: Tegucigalpa, Honduras

My main objective in Honduras was to visit La Moskitia which is the most unspoilt rainforest area in Central America. It is quite difficult to get there and only a few agencies offer tours. I approached an agency and 10 days later they came back to me that they have a tour available. So happily I went back yesterday to La Ceiba with the hope that today I would start the real adventure. But everything was shattered after the other two people who meant to join me had not showed up. I was pissed off but I could not do much about it. Shit happens and also as I always say everything happens for a reason.

This morning I got on the bus to Tegucigalpa from La Ceiba. This trip was dedicated to Jean Claude Van Damme movies. It has been more than 23 years since last seen a movie with him. This is because around the Romanian revolution (late 80s / early 90s) my parents and their friends used to organize movie nights (full night) at people’s houses. The main movies showed there were action movies with iron men like Jean Claude, Stallone and Schwarzenegger. Until this moment I have not felt the need to see one of Jean Claude’s movies but when you are stuck on the bus for 7 hours and movies are screened you eventually caught yourself watching them. After a few breaks, people getting sick on the bus, poor little babies crying and a faulty bus door that got stuck when we wanted to get on after a short break, finally I got to the Capital.

Tegucigalpa is a typical rough, dangerous and dirty Central American capital with a lot of American fast foods one after another. But after my La Moskitia disappointment I was quite happy to wander around the big malls and do a bit of a window shopping. Somehow after spending so much time on the road and in different small pretty towns going to big city malls makes you feel like you are back to reality. It sounds strange but that is how I feel every time I do this (occasionally only).

After sweet sixteen days spent in Honduras, early tomorrow morning I will be leaving to explore El Salvador. This country is the smallest but most populated one in Central America.