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Danger, the perception, the probabilities, the "reality"?
It varies widely depending upon parties involved, time of day, pure dumb luck. No different than walking into town back home in Ohio.
You can consider any factor from condition of the pavement, road shoulder, crappy drivers, nasty dogs, highwaymen, same as in Ohio.
Walking into town? From CCV, that would mean the sprawling metroplex of French Harbor, take Exit 6a off the Honduran Interstate RTB1. Hit the one grocery store. You're done. Now figure out how you're going to carry your bottles of Rum or Vanilla back to CCV.
If if you gotta haveta wanna go have a gander at "city life", I'd suggest you get a cab to the top of the hill at the road to French Harbor, then go wander the small village, have some fun. Don't expect much. Just nice people. Then, as you go back up to the road, hit the grocery and liquor section, grab a cab, go back to CCV.
Is it unsafe to walk that few miles between CCV and French Harbor? I'm one hell of a person to ask, I live in Chicago, it's Black Friday, and a prediction of ZX (zombie apocalypse). When I go anywhere, for any number of reasons, either home or abroad, I walkways ask, "Is this trip really necessary?". On Roatan, the path from CCV to FH will seem like a roadside walk through a somewhat hilly area of a intensely developed small rural farmland homesteads.
Heading further West is he wide spot in the road known as Barrio Fuerte. There is, again, nothing for you here, but it does become more interesting by a huge factor when you hear of it's creation from a simple squatters camp that grew like a weed. Now, it is a legit deeded property, largely due to the original land owner's realization that taking it back eluded be a futile exercise.
You can learn a lot about the framework of a society by looking upward and seeing their utility wires.
If if you want a bit more to see, Coxen Hole is comparatively a booming metropolis. Still, but one grocery store, though there are a small number of shops that would entertain a vacationing visitor. You can get into rougher areas in CH, but a modicum of common sense will suffice. There really isn't anything for you anywhere off if the main drag, stick to that. You can likely get to the local mercado without being harassed, but really not much there for you to look at, although I have watched them kill, skin and butcher a cow right there in front of the kids.
If you were asking the unanswerable? Will I be assaulted? Do simple math. Your likelihood of negative personal interaction increases proportionately with the degree of physical isolation of the environment. IE: What momma always warned you- Stay out of dark alleys.
I have been been to some really twitchy places during dive travel. I know that most locals in these environments are really god with knives. I'm supposedly good with one as well, though the locals were born with them in their hands. I have been thusly amused by fellow divers who took their dive knives with them on forays into various towns in exotic destinations. I will say, however, simply producing a knife in a convincing manner (important part) has diverted two attempted assaults in my vacay history, but understand these were at some pretty iffy places...way beyond the threat volume found on Roatan. ("volume" is a technical word, again part of the algebra)
You're going to have to do the math by inserting your own algebraic variables. When I was younger, dark alleys didn't frighten me, and in my case, with fair reason. I'm older, slower, and on Roatan, good law abiding citizens have no CCW (thanks to UN bribery), I look like a rich tourist, I'll be strolling around with "innocent family sheep" which will divide my protective instincts and efforts, so for me? No thanks, I'll take a cab. Besides, I don't walk real well anymore, that's why I dive at ADA CoCoView
Both towns (CH and FH) have their own Bojangles Chicken restaurants, so it's hard to decide.
It varies widely depending upon parties involved, time of day, pure dumb luck. No different than walking into town back home in Ohio.
You can consider any factor from condition of the pavement, road shoulder, crappy drivers, nasty dogs, highwaymen, same as in Ohio.
Walking into town? From CCV, that would mean the sprawling metroplex of French Harbor, take Exit 6a off the Honduran Interstate RTB1. Hit the one grocery store. You're done. Now figure out how you're going to carry your bottles of Rum or Vanilla back to CCV.
If if you gotta haveta wanna go have a gander at "city life", I'd suggest you get a cab to the top of the hill at the road to French Harbor, then go wander the small village, have some fun. Don't expect much. Just nice people. Then, as you go back up to the road, hit the grocery and liquor section, grab a cab, go back to CCV.
Is it unsafe to walk that few miles between CCV and French Harbor? I'm one hell of a person to ask, I live in Chicago, it's Black Friday, and a prediction of ZX (zombie apocalypse). When I go anywhere, for any number of reasons, either home or abroad, I walkways ask, "Is this trip really necessary?". On Roatan, the path from CCV to FH will seem like a roadside walk through a somewhat hilly area of a intensely developed small rural farmland homesteads.
Heading further West is he wide spot in the road known as Barrio Fuerte. There is, again, nothing for you here, but it does become more interesting by a huge factor when you hear of it's creation from a simple squatters camp that grew like a weed. Now, it is a legit deeded property, largely due to the original land owner's realization that taking it back eluded be a futile exercise.
You can learn a lot about the framework of a society by looking upward and seeing their utility wires.
If if you want a bit more to see, Coxen Hole is comparatively a booming metropolis. Still, but one grocery store, though there are a small number of shops that would entertain a vacationing visitor. You can get into rougher areas in CH, but a modicum of common sense will suffice. There really isn't anything for you anywhere off if the main drag, stick to that. You can likely get to the local mercado without being harassed, but really not much there for you to look at, although I have watched them kill, skin and butcher a cow right there in front of the kids.
If you were asking the unanswerable? Will I be assaulted? Do simple math. Your likelihood of negative personal interaction increases proportionately with the degree of physical isolation of the environment. IE: What momma always warned you- Stay out of dark alleys.
I have been been to some really twitchy places during dive travel. I know that most locals in these environments are really god with knives. I'm supposedly good with one as well, though the locals were born with them in their hands. I have been thusly amused by fellow divers who took their dive knives with them on forays into various towns in exotic destinations. I will say, however, simply producing a knife in a convincing manner (important part) has diverted two attempted assaults in my vacay history, but understand these were at some pretty iffy places...way beyond the threat volume found on Roatan. ("volume" is a technical word, again part of the algebra)
You're going to have to do the math by inserting your own algebraic variables. When I was younger, dark alleys didn't frighten me, and in my case, with fair reason. I'm older, slower, and on Roatan, good law abiding citizens have no CCW (thanks to UN bribery), I look like a rich tourist, I'll be strolling around with "innocent family sheep" which will divide my protective instincts and efforts, so for me? No thanks, I'll take a cab. Besides, I don't walk real well anymore, that's why I dive at ADA CoCoView
Both towns (CH and FH) have their own Bojangles Chicken restaurants, so it's hard to decide.
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