April 2012 Coffee News

-Holy Week in Honduras
-Going to the Beach and other Honduras Travel plans

It's Holy Week and in Honduras that means streams of people are heading for the beach. In our newsletter this month, we share news (and photos) of the week long celebration.

Holy Week in Honduras
If you google images from Comayagua, an enormous number of very sad photos from last month's prison fire pop up. Thankfully, this week, Comayagua is in the news for an entirely different reason -- its famous Holy Week celebration. One Honduran newspaper goes so far as to call Comayagua the "Capital of Faith." The article gives a lovely slideshow of the festive parade on Palm Sunday, the more solumn processions on Maunday Thursday and Good Friday, and the beautiful sand carpets that stretch across over 19 blocks of the city's streets. Over 800 artists have carried on the long tradition, creating over 50 vivid designs of scenes from the Passion of Jesus with sand and flower petals throughout the city.

Beyond religious observance, Holy Week in Honduras is also time to head to the beach! The newspapers report sunny forecasts and traffic gridlock as over 20,000 people leave the capital city heading for the coasts. Guillermo's family is playing it smart and heading to the mountains where the family is planning to gather on the coffee farm.

Honduras Travel Plans
Unfortunately, we won't be traveling to the coffee farm ourselves this June as we had hoped. Although there are over 30 people on our lists as interested in a trip to the farm someday, we did not reach the minimum of five travelers we needed to start planning for this coming June. We fully intend to offer this opportunity in the future. In particular, we dream of the day when the new international airport opens up in Comayagua (promised by the Honduran President for October 2013) at which time travel arrangements to the coffee farm will be enormously simplified. Stay turned! (In the time being, you can see design images for the new airport which is a promising sign.)