Yesterday we departed Tegucigalpa around 1:30pm Honduras time and headed for Catacamas for our first night here. We made our first pit stop at a Mall.... yes, first stop after leaving the airport was a mall. Some folks purchased cell phones for the price of $15! The mall was just what you would imagine in a foreign country, commercialized stores and restaurants from America! There were actually 3 Dunkin Donuts in the span of about 10 stores. Then at the food court, we had several options, many of which could have been something familiar like Pizza Hut or Wendy's but we were all adventurous and tried the local places.
Wait until you see the picture of the food I had for lunch, some locals had a tray of it and several took one look and had to know where to find it. I could not eat the entire meal, and it is definitely great for sharing with another person. Basically a giant deep fried taco, with pork, beef, chicken, and cheese all inside of it and the cold veggies across the top. Along with about 4 sauces, that I couldn't try to describe or pronounce... actually, I couldn't spell them either. So basically it was amazing and my favorite thing so far! I paid approximately $6.40 (US) for this meal and a bottle of water.
Our trip continued after lunch with a nice long drive through the country, about 4 hours to a hotel near Catacamas, Villa Paraiso. A cute little structure, well hidden by trees and just off the main road. Joy, another grad student, and myself entered our room and were completely impressed by the cleanliness and fresh smell of what we observed to be great attention to detail! It made us much more comfortable and at ease as to where we were about to spend the next two nights. The fascinating thing about this hotel, is that across the road they also have a restaurant, but not just any food is served there, they have a series of tilapia ponds that they utilize for their menu. The menu for the night was a variety of fish plates, but if I wanted I could have had a hamburger.... Why though, when there is a chance to try all of this authentic cuisine?? We enjoyed an appetizer, that quite frankly looks disgusting in photos but tasted amazing and then we all order the "small fish" which literally came as a whole small fried fish. I think it may have been battered or marinated, not sure, but quite tasty.
I think overall the worry for our night was that we weren't going to have air conditioning and there wasn't a breeze. I mean we knew we weren't staying at the Hilton, but we also were getting pretty warm. So we anticipated a bit of a sleepless night... until Dr. Jones came to the rescue! He and Dr Wilson stopped by to clue us in.... We did in fact have air conditioning!!! It was so exciting, I cannot really even express our emotions at that moment!! I will post a picture later of what the unit looked like, but sure enough a small white remote could be found on the night stand, and it did not belong to the TV!
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