![]() This ended up being one of our favorite places to camp so far in Central America. Instead we headed up to Finca El Paraiso about five minutes away to camp. It was just not a great place for a XP sized rig and there was almost zero privacy and view. ![]() We stopped by D&D and realized the only place to camp was in their very small parking lot surrounded by high walls. We met some great people there from all over the world. Lake Yojoa seems to be on the Honduras backpackers circuit, and they all seem to end up staying at D&D Brewery. These were the cheap pools, they had many frogs in them, I guess you get what you pay for. The cicadas and frogs were so loud even with ear plugs I could hardly sleep, but I will take loud jungle noise over trucks with squealing air brakes next to the road any day. We camped for the night at the hot springs and had the loudest jungle night of our trip. But we had payed the steep entrance fee and were determined to get our moneys worth. It was still over a hundred degrees after dark. I was wishing the thermal springs were running with ice water. It might have been romantic if we were not both dying of heat exhaustion. It felt like a scene from a honeymoon brochure, it also felt slightly awkward, but most of all if felt HOT. When it started to get dark one of the guys who worked at the hot springs brought about 100 candles and lit them up all over the hot springs. We arrived late in the afternoon and were the only guests. It is hard to describe this place, it has thermal rivers that have been directed into about fifteen different pools in a Mayan themed jungle extravaganza tucked away on the side of a mountain. We headed up the scenic dirt road that basically paralleled the Guatemalan border for about an hour to the beautiful and secluded Jaguar Hot Springs. ![]() Its like getting offered a cold beer, you just can’t say no. It was over a hundred degrees in Copan Ruinas with stifling humidity, so why we decided to go to hot springs in the mountains is still a little bit of a mystery to me, but when you are traveling, hot springs always seem like a great idea. ![]()
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