Trips in Honduras

It's like a mini vacation while on vacation! A couple weekends ago Joseph and I went on a tour with a couple other people from the embassy. It was a 4-5 hour drive but the sights are pretty awesome. Our destination: Lake Yahoa and the ecological center called Naranjo. I got the pictures swapped out of order. We went to the cave first and then to this lake where we had lunch.

Our first stop was a cave. It was so humid inside and warm I could barely breathe! I was surprised because I assumed it would be really cold inside.

Next we stopped at a small restaurante by the lake pictured above. It smelled pretty bad and we were told that the fish we were going to have for lunch were caught right in this lake. Yum. It wasn't bad actually although I would have prefered that they cut the head off before giving it to me on the plate!

These next photos were taken at the ecological center. They preserve wildlife and give tours of the swamps land. You can just barely see the woodpecker on the dead tree on the right side. There were so many birds on our walk and they were so loud. It was fun to hear different kinds of birds than I am used to hearing in Utah and Idaho.

During this time of year the main route is flooded. They built this raised wooden walkway around another part of the swamp. It was so beautiful! (I'm working on a great tan!)

Underneath this hill is a Myan ruin. They don't have the funding to dig it out. On our way back to the center/museum we were swarmmed by mosquitoes. We were constantly waving our arms and swatting. I still had several tiny bites on my arms, legs, and face.

This was the last stop on the way home. We took a short boat ride out to where they have a tilapia fish farm in the middle of the lake. On most of the ride back we had these sardines jumping out of the water. It was so cool!