“Trujillo has a great future, and it always will.” The town has always been, on paper at least, a very attractive, well-situated and strategic place. It sits in a large, deep bay; it has access to the fertile Aguán Valley and is a launching point
This year, 2024, marks 500 years of a permanent European presence in Honduras. The civilization brought here by Spanish conquistadors half a millennium ago set Honduras on a path to poses a common language, Christianity, an administrative system, schools, roads, and a legal system. All
Who is the founder of Honduras? Simple questions can sometime be the toughest to answer. Traveling all around Honduras, I found myself asking that seemingly basic questions to dozens of Hondurans. I spoke with old heads in Trujillo, taxi drivers in La Ceiba, shop keepers
The first contact that the Paya Indians had with Europeans occurred on July 30, 1502.
You could say the first official tourist in Honduras was Christopher Columbus who arrived here in 1502 on his fourth voyage to the Americas. Columbus was more of a business tourist: his visit didn’t last long and he visited only Guanaja and Punta Castilla.