Lago Yajoa, and other adventures

Last weekend Hope and I traveled to Lago Yajoa. Lago Yajoa is Honduras’ biggest lake, it is surrounded by jungle-type forests and beautiful mountains. We had originally planned to go Friday after our last class, but for the first three weeks of school here we have Spanish class every day until 4pm, so it wasn’t until Thursday afternoon that we found out that the last bus to Lago Yajoa left Tegus at 3:30pm. Needless to say we were pretty bummed, being that it was our first week to travel by ourselves. We found out that there was a bus leaving Saturday morning at 6am so we decided that it would be our best bet because we were not going to let a silly thing like a bus get in the way of our weekend plans.

Saturday we both woke up very early in order to leave our houses at 5am to go to the bus station. The whole trip went off without a hitch; the bus was nice, then when we got to La Guama (the biggest town near Lago Yajoa) we took a little bus (busito) to an even littler town (Peña Blanca) and from there we had to take a taxi (actually we got this cute little three wheeled tuk tuk) to take us to our hotel: The D&D Brewery.

Our little taxi

When we got to the hotel we met up with some girls from our semester that were already there (because they have class earlier on Friday) and decided to explore some “Lecan Remains” (there was a map at the hotel that led to them). To make a long story short we searched all around this beautiful park, and could not find any “lencan remains” we finally asked two local boys that were hanging around if they could show us the remains. They eagerly ran ahead of us and pointed at a hill we had already walk past about a gagillion times, apparently the only thing that remained from the Lencas was a pile of dirt.

The hotel was really great we met a lot of other travelers who were very fun to talk to and we got a lot of traveling tips. All in all it was a very good way to start our traveling adventures in Honduras.