About town

La Paz has about 30,000 people and some interesting sights. Here are some I found amusing.


Power Gym this is where I work out. I do aerobics Honduran style and spinning. There is a really funny aerobics instructor named Luis. He wears his weight lifting belt 24-7 and leads aerobics to reggaeton music.

I don´t think Honduras has the same laws about tinting windows as we do in the US. Almost 100% of cars have tinting so dark that you cannot under any circumstances see into the car. Even the front windsheild is black. Sometimes they have a little strip of clear glass that you can see out of in the front. This is one of the two discos in La Paz. I have never been here but the other one is hot and plays reggaeton, merengue, bachata and a token American oldies set.
In Honduras you can buy bags of water for $.10 and bit off the edge of the bag and suck the water out as you can see us doing below. This is Mary, my friend and fellow health volunteer.
This is a bolo, he is drunk and passed out in the park. They are all over the streets and parks all the time.

Here are Mary and the Jemelas, twins. They are 14 years old and boy crazy, so they decided we should go to a walk to the cemetary, which happens to be just past the fire station, where there happen to be men. We never made it to the cemetary.
This is me on a fire truck.