Things to do in Honduras
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Café Skandia
In Gran Hotel Sula, Skandia is surprisingly pleasant for a hotel restaurant; you can sit in the air-conditioned dining area or at shaded tables by the pool. The menu includes Honduran standbys – eggs, fried fish, roast chicken – plus a bunch of items you rarely see, like waffles, onion rings, apple pie and milkshakes.
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Ixbalanque Spanish Language School
Probably the best school in town, Ixbalanque offers one-on-one Spanish classes 20 hours per week (L$3990), including a homestay (private room with bathroom, three meals per day and laundry). Volunteer opportunities in elementary schools, medical centers and municipal offices also can be arranged in conjunction with language study.
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El Rodeo
This cavernous steakhouse doubles as a boho bar Thursday through Saturday nights. Meals are well prepared and portions are hefty; they always come with a complimentary anafras (bean fondue) for the table too. The menu has a few options if meat isn’t your thing, but if it is, definitely go for it – you’ll leave satisfied.
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Café Mariposa
Housed in a canary- yellow building jutting out above the sea, the Mariposa has friendly service, yummy snacks and tremendous views. Don’t miss the pan-seared prawns accompanied with a freshly-mixed Piña Colada (after all, we’re in the tropics). You can save some duckets by going with the snacks and sandwiches.
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Mixers
Cafeteria-style eating is what you’ll get at this locale. Every day a new variety of típico is served – there’s always beans, rice and a vegetable dish though – so you won’t get bored if you eat here more than once. It’s on the 2nd floor of a peach-colored shopping center.
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Terraza Restaurant
Don’t be put off by the location – inside a budget hotel of the same name, this restaurant is one of the best downtown. Honduran classics like coconut shrimp and chicken tacos are served alongside international faves like BLTs and veggie pasta. Save some lemps with the plato del día (daily special).
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Comidas Royale
Right on Parque Central, this is one of the best buffets in town. Not only is it open all day, every day, but the trays always seem to be brimming with fresh food. Dishes vary by the hour – típico of all sorts is served up alongside Honduran-style chow mein, fried rice, sweet-and-sour chicken, and ribs.
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Pizza Pizza
This popular pizzeria that serves brick-oven pizza made with hand-tossed dough, homemade sauce and any number of toppings is one of our faves in Honduras. It’s owned by Warren Post, a friendly American who is a great source of information if you can catch him. Also has decent book exchange of mostly English-language books.
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Taco Loco
A cheap option in a high-price neighborhood, this crazy little taco shop (it has a hot-dog logo but tacos on the menu) offers up flour or corn tortillas, and a choice of beef, pork or chicken filling. An order of cebollas lloronas (grilled, literally ‘cry baby, ’ onions) is worth the extra few lemps.
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El Recreo
A favorite among young volunteers, El Recreo has a friendly owner who serves a fixed menu for breakfast, mostly baleadas for lunch, and dishes like coconut chicken or a barbecue sampler for dinner. There’s music and dancing Friday and Saturday. It’s a block south and a block west of Parque Central.
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Tun Club Restaurant & Bar
You wouldn’t expect it from the outside, but the dining area in this longtime restaurant and bar is quite large and, with a leafy interior courtyard, stone floors and wood tables, downright outdoorsy. (Well, almost.) The food is tasty and the portions large, and the menu includes a number of vegetarian options.
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Rincón Mexicano
This ‘Mexican corner’ is indeed a quiet little place where you can escape the noise and exhaust of Av Colón traffic. The menu has all the usual suspects: tacos, mole, tortas (even ‘drowned tortas, ’ a specialty of Guadalajara), plus American variations including fajitas and burritos.
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Beaches
Trujillo is best known for its attractive Beaches, with pale sand fronting a glassy, waveless ocean. Some of the best are near the airstrip, 1.5 km east along the beach from town. Several beachside open-air thatched-roof restaurant-bars provide shade, food and a cool drink for beachgoers, and keep the beaches clean.
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Ecomarine Dive Shop
Low-key and unpretentious, with small classes and solid instruction. Located in a residential area a 10-minute walk west of the center, which can be a bummer or a blessing. The backpacker lodge across the street is free for students and L$40-100 for non-divers, and has a small shared kitchen and even smaller rooms.
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Café Jardín Colonial
This great little cafe, three blocks from Parque Central, will assuage the pain of anyone missing their favorite coffee spot back home. The menu also includes fresh sandwiches and a long list of crepes, from chicken and ham to jam, banana or melacatón (passion fruit), served with a scoop of ice cream.
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Mercado San Isidro
You can find just about anything for sale, excellent artesanía included, in this chaotic market in Comayagüela. However, there’s a catch-22: pickpocketing and snatch-and-run theft are common, and the market is the last place you want to carry anything valuable, especially a wad of money.
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Max Bar & Grill
A number of restaurants around town stay open late on weekends for bar service. A good place to start out the night, Max Bar & Grill has cheap beers and rum and tequila drinks, plus late-night food service if you get the munchies - pizza, sandwiches, even Sloppy Joes. It's a short walk from the other clubs.
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Luna Gaucha
Uruguayan food, with strong influences from Brazil and Argentina, is emerging in many countries as a unique and satisfying cuisine. Luna Gaucha is La Ceiba's first of such restaurants and serves tasty grilled dishes, both individual and traditional family-style platters, in a friendly atmosphere. Good value.
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Rain Forest
This boutique has a wide variety of handicrafts from around Central America. Don't miss the Garífuna rag dolls or the colorful tree-bark mobiles from La Moskitia. The prices are pushing the upper limit of reasonable, but the quality is good. Be sure to check out the English-language book exchange in back.
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Galley
Another great place for good cheap meals! The Thai curry and a three-meat BBQ plate are the most expensive with cheaper options like fried rice and a killer carbonara. As it's just a small wood shack a dozen or so meters off the road, it's easy to miss - look for the gravel path next to Paradise Computers.
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Fuente de Salud y Juventud
Mainly a natural goods store (vitamins, supplements etc), the Fount of Health & Youth also prepares a modest vegetarian buffet. The food is pretty underwhelming, but for vegetarians surviving on rice, beans and licuados (smoothies), it’s a welcome change. Spa treatments are offered here, too.
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Ivis Gift Shop
The very friendly proprietor here has packed her small wood-shack shop with Honduran, Salvadoran and Guatemalan artesanía (handicrafts), plus T-shirts and other knick-knacks – some are good, some not so good, but it’s worth a browse if you’re in the market for souvenirs.
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Restaurante Plaza Colonial
This cute little cafe-bistro has metal tables and chairs right on Parque Central. The menu includes golosinas (traditional snacks), a hefty club sandwich, as well as beef, chicken and seafood dishes. Even if you’re not hungry, it’s a nice spot for coffee, postcards or evening beers.
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Food Stands
At lunch, the food stands in front of Iglesia Los Dolores fill the air with the smoke, sounds and smells of sizzling meats, and people ordering, eating and talking. There's a little of everything here - pupusas, baleadas, soups and, of course, grilled beef and chicken. A must-do if you like street food.
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Velva’s Place
This low-key, outdoor restaurant is away from the hubbub of West End’s main strip. An ‘Island breakfast’ of eggs, bacon, beans and toast costs L$100, burgers are about the same, and fish and shrimp dishes range from L$70 to L$110. It’s two minutes north of the intersection.
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