(used map:ITM travelmap)

Day 1: Agua Caliente (bordervillage)-Nueva octopeque 30km
Day 2: Nueva Octopeque-Talgua 85km
Day 3: Las Flores-Gracias 26km
Day 5: Gracias-San Juan 35km
Day 6: San Juan - Marcala 82km
Day 7: Marcala - La Paz 92km
Day 8: La Paz-Tegucigalpa 56km
Day 9: Tegucigalpa-Laure Abaio 120km
Day 10: Laure Abaio-Somotillo (Nicaragua) 79km
Total Honduras: +/- 605km

2. Specific information

To enter Honduras, you have to pay 20 limpira's (+- 2 dollars) If you want to change money at the border, it's better to change only a little bit when leaving Nicaragua, because you get more at the other side of the boarder, in Honduras In Nicaragua we got only half of the rate they gave us in Honduras.

In 1998 the hurricane. Mitch destroyed many infrastructures in Honduras. Roads are at some parts really bad and the condition of houses and other buildings is quite poor. The east side of the country, La Mosquita, is much more touristic than the west side.

3. Description of the road

After Nueva Octepeque the road goes uphill for 15 kilometers, then 10 kilometers downhill to La Labor. This road is really nice, green and mountainous.
In stead of going to Santa Rosa, we decided to make a shortcut again, passing Talgua and Las Flores. From the junction Santa Rosa - Talgua, it's a 7 kilometers unpaved road to Talgua. After this little village it's not possible to bike anymore. We had to carry the bikes for 12 kilometers, through a rough forest. There were no village on this horse-track, we were lucky we could buy some bananas from a farmer. We even got lost on this track, because there were so many tracks crossing each other. A young boy helped us out of the jungle, to Las Flores. From this village to Gracias the road is paved again.

A Dutch couple runs an expensive hotel (on the hill of the castle) in Gracias. At their place you can.also check your mail. We stayed at hotel Los Angelos, not really cosy, but it's clean, there is a cable television in each room and on the roof you can do your laundry. There are two bike shops in Gracias, selling rather primitive materials. Six kilometers out of Gracias, you find some hot springs, great for a day of relaxation and recuperation.

The road from Gracias to La Esperanza and Marcala is a bad sandy road full of stones and holes. But the nature is wonderful. They were working on the road, so it might be better already now.

From Marcala to La Paz the road is paved again and quite up and down. On the hilly way to Tequcigalpa there are a lot of cars. The capital lies in a valley, so to get out of it, there's first a hill before the long +/- 30 km downhill. From San Lorenzo over Choluteca to Guasaule, on the boarder with Nicaragua, the road is flat, a real relief after all the Honduran hills.