Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Gladys Nolasco is the closest thing to a tourism minister in tiny rural San Juan, Honduras (pop. 1,000). Sitting at a cluttered desk in her stationery store ...

ROATÁN ISLAND, Honduras — “Ba-na-na dough-nut! Ba-na-na dough-nut!” Every afternoon, Milton’s singsong call drifted down the beach and started me drooling. A tub of warm, sugar-sprinkled banana ...

For many travelers, a trip to Belize is as far as they are willing to wander to experience the beauty of Central America, but for those down to journey deeper, there are several untouched areas in ...

A massive wave of trash has washed up on the beaches of Omoa in northern Honduras, leaving pristine tropical beaches blighted by piles of garbage. The trash, bobbing in the ocean and piled up on the ...

As our United Airlines flight was descending into San Pedro Sula airport, the large square fields outside La Lima and the serpentine Ulua river brought back memories of so many landings and time here ...

If you’re someone who likes to play it safe, I’d say stick with Costa Rica. It has a well-established tourist infrastructure, a stable government, amazing biodiversity, and sandy beaches on the ...

Much like a tsunami, the wave of garbage is just as deadly, not only to the area’s tourist-dependent beaches, but to the ecology of the region, according to Voice of America News. Honduran officials ...

Teams of volunteers and members of the Honduran armed forces worked around the clock last weekend to clean a wave of rubbish that washed up onto the usually pristine beaches of Omoa, along Honduras’ ...

(SOUNDBITE) (Spanish) OFFICIAL FROM THE HONDURAN ENVIRONMENT MINISTRY, LILIAN RIVERA, SAYING: "This wave of trash which came from the Motagua River really surprised us, and even though it caused ...

A massive wave of trash has washed up on the beaches of Omoa in northern Honduras, leaving nightmare scenes of pristine tropical beaches blighted by piles of garbage. The Honduran government has sent ...