La Cieba

We all had a pretty good laugh in La Cieba when the bartender told us we were staying in the nicest part of town!
Really, you have got to be kidding me, with all the bars and locks on all the windows, trash, and bums, on the streets. Honestly, La Cieba reminded me of the Ghetto in LA, except really, really humid. There was even a Texaco where we could pick up cheap beers late/night, well relatively cheap anyway. One beer was 23 Lempiras, but a six pack was ten times as much as a single beer, 236 lps. Now either someone really fucked up on the math or the Hondurian Government is tryine to disuade people from buying in bulk. Bizarre. Lempiras are the local currency, named after a famous indigenous leader Lempira who tried and failed to boot the Spanish out of Honduras. I guess if he would have succeeded they might have named the country after him or something instead of Honduras, which means depths in Spanish and reffers to the deep waters that Columbus saw off the Hondurian Coast. But since Lempira failed to drive out the Spanish they just named the local currency after him, and treat the indigenous people pretty poorly since now 90 percent of Hondurians are Mestizo, of Spanish descent.
OK enough history lesson for one post now to the fun stuff....