Puerto Cortes, Honduras Hotels, Vacations, Tourism

North of San Pedro Sula, Highway CA-5 runs through the flat agricultural lands of the Sula valley, amidst lush, tropical scenery. After 60km the four-lane highway reaches the coast at PUERTO CORTÉS , Honduras's main port, where the unstinting heat and dilapidated wooden buildings merely add to the rough and ready feel of the place. There's nothing here to entice you to stop, but if you do, Hotel El Centro (tel 665 1160; US$5–25), at 3 Av, just west of the Parque Central, has basic but serviceable singles and doubles, some with cable TV and private bathrooms, while Hotel Villa Capri (tel 665 6136, … more »