A Trip to La Ceiba

About every week or 10 days, we make a trip into “town” to get groceries and pretty much everything else we need. “Town” is La Ceiba, a city of about 200,000 located 35 miles west of Balfate. About 20 of those miles are extremely rough gravel road. Since we don’t have a vehicle, we always go to town with someone else, so it’s somewhat of a social outing as well. I finally remembered to bring the camera when we went to town last week, so we can share some of the entertaining sights in Ceiba with you.

Power and phone service is a little sketchy at best. But after seeing the snarled bundles of power, cable, and phone lines running all over La Ceiba, it’s a wonder the system works at all!

We always get a kick out of the piñata place. They make all shapes and sizes and you can see them in all stages of completion, so sometimes it looks like dead piñatas strewn around. In reality, they are just out drying on the grass.

This advertisement for chicken is plastered all over La Ceiba. It depicts a white family barbequing with a clown. Several of the people are clutching leeks in their hands. And the caption says something to the effect of “this is the part I love, my family.” We’re not sure exactly who the target audience is, but the people on the billboard certainly don’t look like the Hondurans we know!

So those are a few of the things one can see in La Ceiba. A day in town is pretty exhausting, but never boring.