Day 5 - Tegucigalpa Honduras
We decided that most of the adults would take the Hotel mini bus to a couple
of recommended malls to suss out whether they were safe/suitable to take the
team to.
Once we got there we were very happy with it, apart from security guards at
the entrance and on the door of some of the shops, you could have been in
any nice NZ mall.
This afternoon we had lunch then had arranged for 3 x mini-buses to take
everyone to the mall that the adults visited this morning. A mistake with
the Spanish speaking drivers interpreting where we wanted to go led us
through a very interesting part of town. When we finally arrived at a
museum we sorted out the misunderstanding and ended up driving for ages
through town to get to the mall. It was a real bonus as we saw the "Real"
part of the city and city life.
Cheers
Doug
View from our Hotel room
Tim checking his email from my laptop
Richard in the mall after buying a heap of water (and a few beers)
14 in a van built for 10 - no sweat.
On the road again
In the poor areas there are a lot of "workers" standing around
On the street, its common at intersections for people to try and sell
you food, sweats etc. No one cleaning windscreens though! (photo from hotel
room)
Photo of what must be houses of the more affluent (photo from hotel
room)
ed:nb unfortunately for the second lot of photos, the second email I received from Doug today had the same photos as the first one...
However as we are all hanging out for every teeny crumb of info - I have included Doug's comments that were to go with the relevant photos.
You can use your imagination, and I'm sure we'll get them tomorrow ...
(Doug)
I took a ton of photos... some are a bit rough as they were mostly taken from our moving van.
440 Beggar
445 Run down business of some sort
447 Security guard - they are friendly but mean business
448 Mag and tyre business
449 Fruit and veges
451 - 467 People in the street
470 The cobbled drive way into the museum
476 Policeman
481 - 497 Trip from the museum to the mall
499 Friendly security guard posing with Tim for the camera
500 Boys - once in the mall they seem only interested in shoes, sunglasses and shirts
501 Calculating how much in kiwi dollars
503 Cecelia with Jeremy and Ryan (or maybe Hayden). She was learning English
to become an English teacher here. She's been learning for 18 months (3 hrs
per day) and the course takes 4 years. This was her first "real life"
practice and she was pretty good. It was nice to talk with someone who spoke
pretty good English and learn a bit about life in Honduras. Consequently her
sales were good today!
504 The mall courtyard - Honda cars featured
505 Assembly time to go back to the hotel
507 Ryan and Hayden with their loot
508 Chris and loot - note the cool shoes (bought in Houston I think)
509 Jess - Isn't that junk food there? A bottle of coke was NZ$1 - irresistible.
511 On the way home. There are some nice hotels here
512 This lady was selling small pink table cloths and sweets