In Honduras, besides its marvelous attractions and cultural ambiance, the smiling faces of the people are an added charm. All these sweet fragments are the best part of living in Honduras, which will remain with you as a memory forever.
We understand that studying abroad can be a life-changing experience and, should you choose Honduras, our RocApply tips and guides will enhance what will already be a wonderful trip by helping you also understand the culture and etiquette in Honduras.
We recommend that you thoroughly go through this guide to enhance your peaceable stay with the Hondurans.
Ever had of the Honduran tea? Honduras, one the world's leading coffee exporters and home to a multitude of award-winning coffee farms, is ready to welcome visitors in the fall season when perfect weather and ideal coffee harvesting conditions collide in the country's picturesque coffee regions.
Honduran Coffee Route is a journey through six identified coffee regions that allows foreigners to hear the success stories of local farmers and learn about their cultivating and roasting procedures while visiting farms, training centers, and research centers in some of the country's most beautiful destinations.
The country, like six out of the seven countries in Central America, is Latino. Its people are Latino, for the most part, and so is the lifestyle. There’s a machismo vibe about Honduras, especially in the “wild east” departments of Olancho and Gracias a Dios.
Here is where cowboy culture laws and blood feuds still happen. But it’s not all macho archaic. Hondurans love to party and the street festival or carnival is a central part of life. Although the mestizo latin-ness is dominant in Honduras, the country is also impacted by other cultures. Many indigenous people here call Honduras home, including the Lenca and Miskito peoples.
The country has a diverse mix of people, thereby providing the country with an interesting variety of culture. Around 90 percent of the population is “Mestizo” (a mix of European and Latin American descent), and since it was a former Spanish colony.
Roman Catholicism is still widely practiced in most of the country. Minority ethnic groups comprise about six percent of the population, and where the societies are prevalent the culture is strong, such as the indigenous “Lenca” who have about 300,000 people living in the southwest region.
More generally, the north coast, the “mosquito” coast and the Bay Islands have a culture that is more similar to the Caribbean cayes than traditional Latin America. The British and North American traders had influenced these areas, and you will hear English spoken just as much as Spanish.
The Bay Islands has a mostly English speaking population although the official language of the country is Spanish! The people here are interesting to linger with and always crack a joke or two upon initial introductions!
To find out more about the history of the country, you can visit the Museum of Anthropology in San Pedro Sula, which documents 1500 BC until present day. If you wish to find out more about the colonial era, the Colonial Museum in Comayagua houses religious art and antiquated treasures and trinkets.
When visiting the Copan ruins, the Mayan Museum of Sculpture and the Copan Ruins Archaeology Museum are nearby to discover more about the early Mayan civilization that also once thrived in Honduras.
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