Thursday 7 January 2010

Happy New Year - Cayos Cochinos, Honduras


























We saw in 2010 in Sambo Creek, a small Garifuna community along the coast of Hondruras. We stayed in a small hotel with a fab ocean view balcony. There weren't any celebrations going on, so we enjoyed a few yummy pina coladas and got an early night.

We ended up in Sambo on our way to Cayos Cochinos - a picture perfect group of 13 islands. We caught a ride there first thing on New Years Day with some local kids. It was a beautiful way to start the year. We stayed on Chacuatte, a small Garifuna island village of about 65 people. We stayed in a wooden shack on the sand! There was quite a spectacular storm at night, luckily our shack held up and kept us dry.

The islanders have always been fisherman and now supplement their income with tourism. We loved the kids who just came and chilled out with us on the sand.

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