Well whaddayaknow!! My wife and I just got back two weeks ago from a week in Honduras and El Salvador (mostly Honduras)! Central America is such a beautiful region. My wife and I spent a week in Costa Rica last year and fell in love with that place.
We stayed at an Eco-lodge in Honduras called the Lodge at Pico Bonito. It's in a rain forest at the base of the 8,500 foot Pico Bonito mountain. It rained like heck for hours every day but that was to be expected. It is a rain forest after all. Six miles away, on the coast, it tended to stay dry most of the day.
My wife and I hiked through the jungles down there, down to two different rivers, each on either side of a single high ridge. We saw huge leaf cutter ant nests and the 6" wide cleared trails left by the ants for hundreds of yards. Amazing. We saw Howler monkeys, White faced monkeys, bats, snakes, iguanas, etc. We even saw hundreds of beautiful butterflies.
We took a day trip out to the island chain that includes Roatan (We took a little fishing boat/skiff and launched right out through the waves out to sea for thirty miles. That was interesting, but not as interesting as trying to come back in through those same waves later that afternoon) and spent some time with the villagers in the coastal villages.
All I can say is what an awesome experience!
Of course, my wife just HAD to take a picture with a couple of the local army types with their loaded automatic weapons.
A REAL jungle cruise (as opposed to Disneyland's version)
