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The second largest country in Central America offers everything from Mayan ruins to fabulous diving, one of Central Americas largest wilderness areas to unspoilt tropical beaches
An inexpensive and easy country to travel and there are plenty of places to explore of the beaten track.
Travel is easy:
- 4 international airports- Tegucigalpa, San Pedro Sula, La Ceiba and Roatan
With the best paved highway system in Central America
- Intercity travel is aided by buses that are frequent, reliable and inexpensive
Low prices:
- Eating out, travel and activities are still comparatively inexpensive for Central America.
- Bay islands are the cheapest place in the world to obtain a Padi Open Water certification
Activities:
- Everything from diving the world's second largest reef system off the beautiful Bay Islands to rafting the Rio Cangrejal
- There are many opportunities for wildlife watching, not least within the Rio Platano biosphere reserve, a world heritage site, which consists of a pristine river system flowing through tropical rainforest in the La Mosquitia region.
History:
- The magnificent Mayan ruins at Copan indicate settlement beginning around 1200B.C. The sites consists of pyramids, temples and intricately carved stelae (standing stone monuments).
Stable government:
- Honduras has had 26 of uninterrupted civil government elected democratically. Along with Costa Rica, Honduras has escaped the civil strife which during the 1980s afflicted all the other Central American countries
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| Honduras Fast facts |
- Timezone- central standard timezone
- Population - approximately 6.8 million
- Language- Spanish is the official language, but English is spoken widely in the Bay Islands
- Currency- The official currency is the Lempira
- When to visit? the most popular time to visit Honduras is from around December to April, during the North American winter
- Visas- Citizens of most Western European countries,
Australia, Canada, USA, and New Zealand can stay for
upi to 30 days without a visa if they are visiting
as tourists. Since 2007 you can apply for an extension
for a total of a three month stay after which one
has to leave the group of countries, namely Honduras,
Guatemala, Nicaragua and El Salvador. To be able to
re-enter and get another three months visa one would
have to go to either Belize, Mexico or Costa Rica
and stay a minimum of three days.
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