Central American Road Trip Report

One of the great things about living is Roatan is the proxmity to all Central America has to offer. Recently I took great advantage of this with an old fashion road trip.

We shipped the RAV 4 cindy drives over to the mainland and 3 buddies (Zach Wagner, Sashi Mioshi, Mario Pollio) and myself set out on a road trip from La Ceiba in Honduras to Costa Rica.

The first day we went from La Ceiba to Valley of the Angels via Progresso and Lake Yajoa. It was a very pretty drive. We overnighted in Santa Lucia which is just out side of Valley of the Angels.

Day two we headed south to the Nicaraguan border at Los Manos where we made the crossing and got our first taste of the Daniel Ortega burracraucy that is Nicaragua. We continued moving down to Managua where we had lunch and then pushed onto San Juan Del Sur where we overnighted and took in this nice little beach town.

Day three we pushed further south and crossed into Costa Rica where we made our way to Tamarrindo. Tamarrindo is a famous surf and party town. We found a place to lay our heads across the street from the beach and settled in for 3 days of relaxing, eating, surfing and some night life.

Finally our time in Tamarrindo was up and we headed north back into Nicaragua where we stayed the night in Grenada. Grenada is a beautiful spanish colonial town with well preserved and old architecture. We stayed the Colonial hotel and really enjoyed our time in the city looking around, eating and taking it all in.

The next day was a nice drive north to Tegucigalpa and back into home sweet honduras. Tegus is the capital of Honduras and is located in the mountains which creates a lot of neat views. We stayed at the Clarion hotel and really enjoyed ourselves. The evening was a little bit of dinner and some touring around the city with some friends of Marios that live in Tegus.

From Tegus we headed out toward Copan via Santa Barbara. Unfortunatley the weather was against us and raining very hard so we decided to ditch the Copan journey and head into San Pedro Sula.

The last day was a quick drive from San Pedro to Tela where we toured that up and coming beach town. Then on down into the La Ceiba area where we checked out Pico Bonita lodge. Then a quick drive into La Ceiba where we caught the ferry back to Roatan.

All in all a great trip and something that i encourage anyone to do when they have the chance.