Well, after I last wrote....I went around town a bit and visited the cathedral and another church.  I also learned that Honduras is the country where Christopher Columbus actually reached the main land on his fourth trip....his previous three trips he ended up on islands in the carribbean.   Anyway, I had about $60 in cordobas from Nicaragua that I wanted to get changed into Honduran currency and none of the banks would do it.  They would only accept US dollars or pounds.  I decided to go into the black market...usually you can find money changers on the corners near the banks...so I scoped it out and found one.  Of course you dont get the best exchange rate and it is risky cuz they could give you counterfit money or just run with you money...but i´m pretty savvy...and I got $50 in Lempira for my $60 in Cordobas..so I was happy.

I then wanted to go to Parque de Paz and asked several taxi drivers if they would take me.  They said they wouldn´t because it was to dangerous.  So I said screw this....I´ll just walk.   It was about a mile up hill and was indeed very seedy.  People were sleeping in hovels and shaks along the river, it just reeked of poverty and everyone stared at me.  It was unnerving to have so many people staring at me...it was as if the trees and the walls had eyes.   I got to the parque, took my photos and came back to town unscathed and actually only two guys asked me for money but left me alone.

I came back to the main center of town and had lunch at a torta shop which was nice.   I miss nicaragua...i felt safer there and plus it was more free...things were open later and you could get stall food every where.   Here it seems a bit more ¨cold¨ and there isn´t all the great stall foods and people selling stuff in the square.  I suppose they are scared of being robbed.

Well, I am catching up on emails and going to have some cofee soon...I have to do everything by 5 pm as everything shuts down.   Tomorrow morning I am leaving for Valle de Angeles...Valley of the angels.   WEll, until tomorrow...take care.