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It's quite unfortunate that you had that experience in Honduras, Stickfigure. I experienced pleasant, friendly and chatty hotel clerks; friendly people in Tegucigalpa who led me out of the city by having me follow them on their bike; I stopped in the mountains and had a lovely chat with people waiting for a bus.

I parked wherever I wanted and no one said boo to me; they made sure that the bike was kept safe; etc, etc. It's always interesting to see how two people can go through the same country and have completely different experiences.

Honduras was indeed somewhat more expensive than some of the other countries but I found it to be very similar in cost to Costa Rica, Panama and El Salvador, and cheaper than Belize.

...Michelle
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Originally Posted by stickfigure (Post 316807)

While I did meet some very nice people in Honduras, they were the exceptions. Contrary to *every other country* in Central America, overall I found the people to be bureaucratic, officious, and petty. It's like the entire country is run by the DMV.

Honduras is generally expensive and the food sucks. I realize this is a mean thing to say about a country and its people, but I had a lot of time to compare it against its neighbors. And it's not like I had a bad time - although dealing with customs trying to fly in a new rear sprocket is a horrorshow that makes El Amatillo look orderly, despite my functional Spanish. But compared to the warmth and generally accommodating atitudes of Nicaraguans, Guatematecos, Salvadoreños, Ticos, Panamanians... I don't understand why anyone would choose to spend time and money there.

Especially motorcyclists. Honduras is almost overtly hostile to motorcycles. Try parking in a totally vacant lot - some bureaucratic asshat will run up to you and tell you that you need to go park in the back, or at the bottom level in some barely lit corner of the garage. My expensive motorcycle with half of what I own in the world hanging off it? Not a chance. In CIVILIZED countries, special motorcycle parking is right up in front.

Jeff

We found the food to be excellent, the accommodation cheap and clean and the people helpful.

It is strange the way some people get a bad trip there.