1. The best known Honduran painter is Jose Antonio Velásquez, here is a typical image.
2. America Ferrara, who plays Betty in Ugly Betty, is of Honduran parents. I like that show, I don’t love it.
3. This guy did lots of scientific work, including the laying of some foundations for Viagra, and he married a Belgian princess. I’ve yet to benefit from his existence.
Plus I would cite a few personal acquaintances, past and present, of whom I am very fond. That’s what I can think of folks, and I wouldn’t have found #3 without Google. This website assures us "There are famous people from Honduras," although the link to the list of them is broken.
I have also read one short story from Honduras, from an anthology of Latin American short stories; it is entitled "Malaria."
I might add I am very fond of airfares to Honduras; right now the roundtrip is cheaper than the one way shuttle to New York City. And maybe the flight is quicker too, no holding patterns over LaGuardia!
Most of all I like places where no one else goes, and I expect this short weekend trip to be very worth its while.
“No one else goes.”
Really.
Honduras is an amazing country, and over a million other tourists agree with me.
You’re not as far on the bleeding edge as you think.
Roatan is nice and isolated. Copan is magnificent. Tegucigalpa has an appealing (to me) urban feeling that I miss in most of the US.
PS: the who’s who *does* give missing page error, but this site is really interesting: http://www.projecthonduras.com/
I second the recommendation for Copan. It has some of the best pre-Columbian art on display in its natural setting.
My wife is from Honduras and I lived there for a while in Tegucigalpa. The climate in Tegucigalpa is close to ideal; year round highs in the 80s lows in the 50s. I liked the open markets and riding the buses was often amusing. For food the fruit is wonderful and you can get great Tamales (especially around Christmas) and pinchos are good (I liked to eat at El Patio down town Tegucigalpa but I think that it burned down). There are some really good bakeries with good bread in Tegucigalpa. I worked at IHMA and there was a great bakery with wonderful crust bread right near IHMA.
Miguel Estrada, whom Bush nominated for a seat on the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit but got filibustered by the Democrats, was born and grew up in Honduras, and came to the US at age 16.
Interesting. The actual show Ugly Betty, originated in Honduras as well,
I think at least. My mom is Honduran and I have been there almost every
summer. I see all of my family there. I like Tela Mar. You should go
there. Honduras is great and I love the soccer team. David Suazo, Amado
Guevara, and Carlos Pavon are all stars. Suazo plays on Inter Milan, Pavon
plays on LA Galaxy and Guevara used to play on New York Red Bulls but is
now in Motagua. I like to eat pupusas. You have to try them if you go.
There are a million places where you can get them too. so yea…
Daniel, I read that Ugly Betty originated in Colombia as Yo soy Betty la fea. Wikipedia agrees:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betty_la_fea
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