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Tip Around 24km (15 miles) from Copán over rough mountain roads is the Luna Jaguar Spa Resort (www.lunajaguarspa.com), a lovely hot springs facility with a dozen or so pools and bubbling streams amidst thick rainforest. Their massage rooms are found in the Acropolis, a thatched-roof building overlooking a waterfall. Near the main entrance is the…
Fact The Lenca are the ancestors of Chibcha-speaking Indigenous Americans who came from Colombia and Venezuela more than 3,000 years ago. Today they number around 100,000 in Honduras and about 40,000 in El Salvador. The country’s busiest airport is well outside of town and therefore many don’t even get a glimpse of the rather laid-back…
Tegucigalpa and around Founded on September 29, 1578, Tegucigalpa 1 [map] , sitting in a valley surrounded by mineral-rich hills, lingered in obscurity until 1880 when then president Marco Aurelio Soto moved the capital here from Comayagua. While the commercial center of the country has moved to San Pedro Sula, ‘Te-goose,’ as it’s sometimes called,…
HONDURAS Rainforests, cloud forests, beaches, jungles, lakes, islands, Mayan ruins, colonial cities, and buzzing metropolises come together in Central America’s least discovered country. Main Attractions The Bay Islands Pico Bonito National Park Comayagua Cayos Cochinos Tela Lago Yojoa Gracias Copán Despite its large size – its 111,369 sq km (42,999 sq miles) make it second…
MONSEÑOR ROMERO Born August 15, 1917, in Ciudad Barrios, El Salvador, the Roman Catholic priest Óscar Arnulfo Romero y Galdámez has become a symbol of the struggle for human rights in Central America. After witnessing various abuses of power against the poor at the hands of the military as an archbishop, Romero began speaking out…
Montecristo National Park Northeast of the country town of Metapán is the cloud forest-covered national park of Montecristo ) [map] , which straddles the border with Honduras (where it is known as Montecristo-Trifinio National Park). Within the humid park are giant ferns, lichens and mosses that provide cover for spider monkeys and anteaters. Cypresses, oaks,…
El Imposible National Park The 3,800-hectare (9,400-acre) El Imposible National Park 7 [map] , the largest in El Salvador, was named for a dangerous gorge that often claimed the life of farmers transporting coffee to the Pacific. The birthplace of eight rivers and home to extensive rare tropical dry forest, the park ranges in altitude…
LA BORN, SALVADOR RAISED While the criminal gang Mara Salvatrucha, or MS-13, originated in Los Angeles, California, the majority of its members are ethnic Salvadorans. National Geographic went as far as to call them the World’s Most Dangerous Gang in a 2005 documentary. They have expanded across urban areas of North America and their reach…
San Salvador’s historic center would not fare as well as those of other Central American capitals, with the natural disasters that plagued the city preventing it from reaching its full potential. In 1873, an earthquake wiped out much of the city, and the San Salvador volcano erupted in 1917 while it was still being rebuilt….
EL SALVADOR Famed surf breaks, hikes through untrammeled cloud forests, and exploring the Mayan Pompeii await the traveler looking for Central America’s next big thing. Main Attractions San Salvador Joya de Cerén Los Volcanoes National Park Suchitoto Montecristo National Park Balsamo Coast Despite frequent earthquakes and a tumultuous history that includes a brutal civil war,…