Where are we? Yuscaran?

After our Moskitia adventures, we decided to splurge a little and take a "luxury" bus to the capital of Tegucigalpa. This ended up being a huge mistake. The bus itself was quite nice, with bathroom, movies, etc., but they took our sandwiches away as we boarded (still not sure why), only to serve us horrible white-bread ham sandwiches on board. Two slices of wonder bread and a paper thin sliver of ham is plenty of food for a 7 hour bus ride! The real issue we had, though, was the ride of the bus. Neither of us get motion sickness easily. Not on boats, buses, cars, anything, and yet we both were incredibly nauseous for the entire 7 hour ride - a horrible feeling. (If any fellow Honduran travelors are reading this, the bus line was called Vintria Classe Oro.)

Once we were off the bus and recovered in Teguce, we cabbed it over to another bus station, where we got a chicken bus to Yuscaran. The chicken bus was SO much more comfortable and relaxing than the awful nausea luxury bus. Well, we actually had to pay full fare to Danli, much further on, and transfer in the middle of nowhere for the last 17km into Yuscaran. (There are direct buses, but no one bothered to tell us of them...)

Yuscaran is worth all the effort, though. It´s a beautifully-preserved colonial mining town, now famous for making the country´s primary rut-gut cane liquor called Guaro Yuscaran. I tried it, and trust an ex-bartender and stay away from the stuff, pure hangover in a bottle. The town is tiny - 2000 inhabitants, but with a lovely central square and perched on a hill overlooking an agricultural valley.

We stayed at Casa Colibri, a charming old house on the square with big, cushy bed, wonderfully strong hot water showers, and friendly, healthy dogs. The owners were away, but we were lucky enough to have a peace corps worker from Atlanta, Saira, take care of us while we were there. She was a great help and companion. It was a good place to rest up and relax a little, though the food options in town are few and far between.