20th March Granada to Tequcigalpain Honduras
Posted by Marco 21th March
Had breakfast @ 7.00am, bikes loaded already and we left at 7.45am from the hotel after spending 2 great relaxing days in Granada. At the T/junction we turned right, then the 5th left and headed straight for the Honduras border.The weather was great with a good tail wind and even after stopping for our regular coffee break, we still made good time and arrived at the border before lunch time, much to our surprise the group of "Globebusters" all 14 of them had already arrived and were doing there paperwork already, when our turn came after standing around for an hour the lady decided to take her lunch break , so which was supposed to be an easy crossing, still took 3 hours of standing around waiting.
When we carried on the road surface in Honduras was a lot more pothole than before,and the landscape as similar to the Lowveld back home, later that afternoon we found a great hotel in a town with the longest name so far. After talking some of our normal usual nonsense, we walked down the road and had a nice selection of fast food outlets to chose from, chose a chili outlet, it must be a very violet country Honduras because each filling station, food outlet or bank a surety guard with a shot gun at the ready watching over the premises, Road blocks along the way are also manned by policeman with sub-machine guns as well, although we were not stop once, after been told about the heavy police presents along the way, even went out and bought more reflector tape for our bikes after been told the police fine you heavily for not having it on the bikes.It was an unenventfull day. Stan to get rid of his foreign currency must have bought more than 2kg's of sweets, which will last for about 2 days of riding, he claims they keep him awake while riding his bike, quite a sight to see him riding and unravels the sweet papers with his teeth and then still gets them past the helmet into his mouth.
Had breakfast @ 7.00am, bikes loaded already and we left at 7.45am from the hotel after spending 2 great relaxing days in Granada. At the T/junction we turned right, then the 5th left and headed straight for the Honduras border.The weather was great with a good tail wind and even after stopping for our regular coffee break, we still made good time and arrived at the border before lunch time, much to our surprise the group of "Globebusters" all 14 of them had already arrived and were doing there paperwork already, when our turn came after standing around for an hour the lady decided to take her lunch break , so which was supposed to be an easy crossing, still took 3 hours of standing around waiting.
When we carried on the road surface in Honduras was a lot more pothole than before,and the landscape as similar to the Lowveld back home, later that afternoon we found a great hotel in a town with the longest name so far. After talking some of our normal usual nonsense, we walked down the road and had a nice selection of fast food outlets to chose from, chose a chili outlet, it must be a very violet country Honduras because each filling station, food outlet or bank a surety guard with a shot gun at the ready watching over the premises, Road blocks along the way are also manned by policeman with sub-machine guns as well, although we were not stop once, after been told about the heavy police presents along the way, even went out and bought more reflector tape for our bikes after been told the police fine you heavily for not having it on the bikes.It was an unenventfull day. Stan to get rid of his foreign currency must have bought more than 2kg's of sweets, which will last for about 2 days of riding, he claims they keep him awake while riding his bike, quite a sight to see him riding and unravels the sweet papers with his teeth and then still gets them past the helmet into his mouth.
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