Catacamas

Well, Joseph and I were able to volunteer to report on the Honduran elections! We were sent to a town called Catacamas, an area where Joseph served part of his mission. He surprised himself by remembering where some people lived and also that he recognized some people. We were able to visit a family that he met before on his mission.


The hotel we stayed at is called Papa Beto :) It makes me laugh. I think that I accumulated a couple bed bugs while staying there and brought them home with me :( Gross.


We stared out on Saturday morning and it took us about 4 hours to get there. Once we got there we checked in and then did a dry run to all of the polling sites we had listed in our area. Sunday was election day so we were running around and watching how things we going. It was very peaceful. No threats or anything.


Monday morning we left the hotel just after 9 and drove out to a cave in Talgua. It was only discovered in the 1990's by some Peace Corps workers just hiking around. Part of the cave was used by a native tribe to bury people in and since the cave is called a living cave (meaning water flows through it) most of the bodies or skeletons were washed out. There is still one part of the cave they need to excavate but need more money to do so. That part has a lot of bones inside it

After going through the cave we went to their little museum to see pottery and replicas taken from inside the cave.

The entrance to the cave.

Cascades of calcium deposit.

A cool little man drawn by a native tribe with charcol.

It's supposed to look like a bear.

This is a replica skull in the museum. It had a fierce gaurdian sitting on top of it!