"Discovering Tegus"

"19/06/2010"

We were rudely awoken early by the loud beeping of horns and sterios pumping Latino music of all kinds. Our plan today, to explore the sights of the city. We hit the streets to find ourselves in the middle of Saturday's market...
Curving our way through the chaos we held our money bags close till we hit the bridge. This was the bridge over the River Choluteca, which literally carried the entire cities sewage to goodness knows where. It was disgusting. We were totally daunted by the rundown appearance of our neighbourhood. Buildings were derelect, yet people somehow managed to live in them.

The day was spent on a slight detour, walking up a lengthy hill where we overlooked the city - a fantastic view, but not the part of the town we intended. Andy was also feeling unwell.
We managed to see the cathedral and Presidential Palace (if you can really call it a Palace), but everything else we left, because Andy really wasn't well.

The afternoon was spent chilling in front of the TV in our room. We had a laugh at the Americans on Fox News and some other weird channel; hilarious and slightly concerning at the same time.
Teguciagalpa is a noisy city and very run down, so we decided to head for somewhere more tranquil on day 7.