Tag: Cayos Cochinos

The dead cockroach drifts in the sea—as if it were swimming.

Little Monsters on the Boat

At the Cayos Cochinos, one of the most beautiful anchorages in the world, we discover them: cockroaches! The battle against these creatures, which can transmit diseases and trigger allergies, begins.

Plastic trash on the beach of the Garifuna village of East End on the Cayos Cochinos, Honduras

Sailors and Garifuna Collect Plastic

In the Cayos Cochinos Marine Protected Area, plastic bottles and other trash pile up in some places. Canadians Melanie and Eric rally 12 sailors and 23 locals to clean up the beach.

In the village of Chachahuate on the Cayos Cochinos, families cook for day-trippers from the mainland

Fish & Plantains with the Garifuna

The Garifuna in the fishing village of Chachahuate on the Cayos Cochinos don’t just live from fishing. They’ve built a “restaurant row” on their small island. Behind the huts, entire families cook huge amounts of fish, plantains, and coconut rice with beans.

View from Cayo Mayor of the crystal-clear sea of the Honduran Coya Cochinos Marine National Park.

Pig Islands instead of Bay of Pigs

Instead of the Bay of Pigs in Cuba, where we originally wanted to go, we land on the Pig Islands (Cayos Cochinos) of Honduras. We don’t see pigs here, but a Boa rosada – a Pink Boa that only exists here.

The dead cockroach drifts in the sea—as if it were swimming.

Little Monsters on the Boat

At the Cayos Cochinos, one of the most beautiful anchorages in the world, we discover them: cockroaches! The battle against these creatures, which can transmit diseases and trigger allergies, begins.

Plastic trash on the beach of the Garifuna village of East End on the Cayos Cochinos, Honduras

Sailors and Garifuna Collect Plastic

In the Cayos Cochinos Marine Protected Area, plastic bottles and other trash pile up in some places. Canadians Melanie and Eric rally 12 sailors and 23 locals to clean up the beach.

In the village of Chachahuate on the Cayos Cochinos, families cook for day-trippers from the mainland

Fish & Plantains with the Garifuna

The Garifuna in the fishing village of Chachahuate on the Cayos Cochinos don’t just live from fishing. They’ve built a “restaurant row” on their small island. Behind the huts, entire families cook huge amounts of fish, plantains, and coconut rice with beans.

View from Cayo Mayor of the crystal-clear sea of the Honduran Coya Cochinos Marine National Park.

Pig Islands instead of Bay of Pigs

Instead of the Bay of Pigs in Cuba, where we originally wanted to go, we land on the Pig Islands (Cayos Cochinos) of Honduras. We don’t see pigs here, but a Boa rosada – a Pink Boa that only exists here.

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