Chiminike

Lonely Planet review

Chiminike is Tegucigalpa's excellent new children's museum, one of many such institutions that have popped up around Central America in recent years. It has something for kids of all ages, from a peaceful infant/nursing area to adolescent-level displays on Mayan history.

And it's refreshingly frank: the area about the human body has exhibits on the hows and whys of farting, vomiting, sneezing and body odor, while a crawl-through digestive tract starts at the mouth and ends with a slide through an oversized rectum. Other highlights are a miniature supermarket and construction site, working TV and radio studios, a bubble room, a bed of nails and a casa de equilibrio (equilibrium house) - a small house built at a 22° angle to highlight your sense of balance (separate admission applies). There's a cafe-restaurant onsite.