Honduras Surfing - One sport Honduras does not have much of is surfing. It is because conditions are not quite as favorable as places like Panama. The location of the country in relation to the Caribbean sea makes it not produce a lot of surf. Honduras is on the southeast side of the Mexico Yucatan Peninsula and that land feature breaks the swells coming in from the northwest. See the website at http://magicseaweed.com/Gulf-Coast-MSW-Surf-Charts/9/swell/in/ for a graphical representation of swell patterns. However, surfers in Honduras have been known to catch some good action when swells form because of approaching hurricanes. Of course these are hurricanes at a safe distance.

However, if you are in Honduras you are close to surfing destinations in neighboring countries. You can easily travel to neighboring Belize and you will have locations to surf from. Slickrock Adventures, Inc. in Belize offers a wide variety of surfing packages to include windsurfing and surf kayaking. They have an informative website that even has links to other sites to report surf conditions at http://www.slickrock.com/surfingbelize.htm

Another neighboring country that borders Honduras is Guatemala and they have good surfing too. The Maya Extreme Surf School is notorious as the best in Guatemala and it is staffed and operated by Guatemalan surfers with over 20 years of combined surfing experience. They also have an informative website at http://www.mayaextreme.com/.

Other surf spots in Guatemala include Champerico, El Paredon, Hawaii, Iztapa, La Barra, Monterrico, Punta San Jose, and Zipacate. While swells are good year round, they are especially great during the month of September thru October.

On the Guatemalan Pacific coast is the El Paredón Surf Camp and it is relatively new. It is located at Sipicate-Naranjo National park and 80 miles due south from Antigua. It has a bare-bones web site. Their website is at http://elparedonsurfcamp.tripod.com/id6.html and they have directions of how to get there.

So, bottom line is that if you want to take in all of Honduras surfing , you are better off going to a neighboring country such as Belize or Guatemala and get your surfing fix there.