The Pirates Tour

Our enduros carry us on paved roads over the Cordillera Nombre de Dios mountains and into the fertile plain of the Rio Aguan. Plantations of bananas, oranges, and oil palms line up here. On washed-out, hole-ridden tracks, we ride until Trujillo. Here, Columbus first set foot on the American mainland in 1502. Trujillo was the first capital of the country (1525), and traces of the colonial and pirate era are still visible. From Trujillo, we ride many kilometers along the Sierra de Agalta on impeccable tracks through the pine forests of a mountainous and hilly landscape. We will have lunch in San Esteban at a "Comedor", a simple restaurant. The varied stage offers a wonderful panorama of the surrounding mountains. Now the motorcycle journey leads back down through mountainous pine forests into the Olancho Department – the wild west of Honduras. We leave Catacamas heading south and lay into the curves again: tarmac roads and tracks guide our enduros to Danli. We find ourselves in the heart of Honduras’ most important tobacco-growing region. In the best case, we can watch the women in a cigar factory producing "Churchills", cigars.

The journey with the enduros continues: Santiago de los Caballeros de León is on the agenda. In the colonial period, León was an important center for politics and culture, which is still evident in many buildings. Today, the city mainly lives off the university and is considered an intellectual center of Nicaragua.

In serpentine and looped roads, we wind through the mountains of El Salvador up to the Honduran border. We ride through San Miguel and San Francisco Gotera and finally reach Perquin, the village of the Lenca Indians, at an altitude of 1250 meters above sea level.

Forty meters the Pulhapanzak waterfall plunges down. An impressive sight. A little upstream, the brave can take an ice-cold bath with a jungle feeling. In the immediate vicinity, archaeological finds testify to ceremonial sites from the time of the Mayans. After these experiences, we return to San Pedro Sula, starting and ending point of our motorcycle journey. Once again, we enjoy dinner together before heading back to Europe the next day. – Or to the extension program: diving and snorkeling on the Bay Islands. The team from OVERCROSS travel agency will miss you!