Can anyone tell me more about San Nicolas, Honduras?

Question

Anything you know is of interest the regional culture, food, topagraphy, Average daily life, Could you paint a picuture for me?

Answer 1

I have been there twice,both times passing through to somewhere else .It is a small,poor,rural community.I met some people doing work there with the PeaceCorps and I would suggest you go to their message board and ask your questions there. You may find someone who is currently serving there or someone who has recently returned from serving there or near there.They would be able to answer all your questions and also might be able to pass on a message for you. Below is a link to their message board...go to the bottom of the page to post a new message.Hopefully they haven't closed it to the public.Good luck!

The first link is the Honduras board the second link is more of a general questions about anything/anywhere board.

http://peacecorpsonline.org/messages/mes...

http://peacecorpsonline.org/messages/mes...

Answer 2

San Nicolas is a very small rural town, most of the people in this region live on agriculture specifically coffee. There are many small towns near San Nicolas, the biggest one is Santa Barbara. Many of the people that live here are descendants of Sephardic Jews that came from Spain at some point of the colonial time. You will find many blonde, blue eyed people here. Life is of slow pace, nothing close to the way of life in a big city.

I would think this family lives on the fields near San Nicolas. During the coffee season many of the families in Santa Barbara, which is like the State in which San Nicolas is, work on the picking the coffee seeds.

People from this part of the country are known in Honduras to be very smart and able to comeout of poverty and become important people in Honduras. Hopefully she could be able to study all the way to college and make

San Nicolas is between a mountainous region, this mountains are use for coffee growing. San Pedro Sula, which is Honduras second largest city is about 1 1/2 hour from there.

My father grew up from a town that is about 20 min from San Nicolas, on dirt road and my mom from a different town also very close to San Nicolas. They do have electricity in these towns and most probably could have television. You may find two classes in this town. THe people that own the farms and the people that work in the farms or have small portions of land were they grow their crops.

Many of these people study there through high school and then move to San Pedro Sula to either go to the University or begin to work here.

I think the goal of most of the people there is to come and live in San Pedro Sula, they do know how the way of living in the US is much better, but I think does not imagine the magnitude of how different it is.