Honduras

Travelling around and around Honduras

All our trips begin one hours after the boat arrives in town. With Roatan's Genuine Zip-N-Dip, the trip begins when you see your Zip-N-Dip-Guide one hours after your boat arrives at the jetty, and you drive to the zippine area.

Following your zip line adventures and optinal wildlife viewing, you will be taken to West Bay Beach, a gorgeous sandy beach where you can hire snorkeling gear, canoeing, kayaking, jet-skiing and many great places to dine and water, or just sit back and unwind, bathe and soak.

Sheltered by the off-shore cliffs, this is a beautiful seagrass and rock-free sandy and powdery sandy area like no other in Roatan, and it is cared for and cultivated on a day-to-day basis. At Bananarama Resort you will sit back with a deck chair (access to shadows as needed), toilet/changing room and freshwater showers.

History, Geography & Culture | Honduras

Honduras, official Republic of Honduras, Spanish República de Honduras, land of Middle America between Guatemala and El Salvador in the western and Nicaragua in the toast. While the Caribbean is washing its north shore, the Pacific is washing its small coastline to the north. Most of Honduras' people live in isolation in the mountains, which can help clarify the country's more island policies in terms of latino and middle America.

Like its neighbors in the area, it is a third-world country whose people face countless economical and societal problems, a difficult position compounded by the harsh terrain and casual force of harsh climatic conditions, which included the 1998 hurricane Mitch disaster. Over three-quarters of Honduras' territory is made up of mountains, only along the coast and in the various rivers that flow inland.

To the south-west, the Vulcan Highlands are made up of alternate strata of deep vulcanic scree and streams of sand, both from the mid to early Cenozoic (i.e. about 2.6 to 65 million years old). There are older peaks in other areas in the north, dominated by granites and crystal stones.

Honduras' east coast (including the north part of the Mosquito Coast, known as La Mosquitia) and mountainsides cover about one-fifth of Honduras' area. Northerly lowland and flood plain and coastline regions account for about an 8th of the country's surface area and comprise about a quarter of the people.

Its railways are limited to this northerly area, which has four of the five major border crossing points; the lower mountainsides are only a small part of the country's surface area and contain an equal small part of its people. In general, the weather is warm, although the high air moisture in the tropic coast plains changes inwards due to the altitude.

Lowland areas below 1,500 ft (460 meters) have average seasonal temperature between 79 and 82 °F (26 and 28 °C). From October to April, the coastline is sometimes affected by cold northerly wind of continent origins. Mountains and dales, from 600 to 1200 meters (2,000 to 4,000 feet), have average seasonal temperature of 66 and 73 °F (19 and 23 °C).

Tegucigalpa, on the hills at 975m, has a wet spell from May to mid-November, with sometimes as low as 90°F (32°C) in May and as low as 50°F (10°C) in December, the coldest months. Average yearly temperature is approx. 2,100 meters (7,000 feet) at approx. 14 °C (58 °F).

The average rainfall in the north and east lowlands and surrounding hills is between 70 and 110 inch (1,800 and 2,800 mm) or more per year, with the wet seasons from March to June being less severe; these areas sometimes have summers storms associated with strong rainfall. Pazifi planes and mountainsides get 60 to 80 inch (1,500 to 2,000 mm) downpours per year, but from December to April little or no downpour.

Internally protected mountains and dales are given 40 to 70 inch (1,000 to 1,800 mm) per year.