2 Best Sights in Tegucigalpa, Honduras

A 20-minute walk north of Plaza Morazán, up some steep and twisting cobbled streets, will bring you to this charming park that is well worth the effort to get here. Lovely views of Tegucigalpa are even nicer at night, and locals say the winking lights look like a nativity display. Many of the older houses in this beautiful, but somewhat dishevelled, neighborhood once belonged to European settlers.

A few blocks south of Plaza Morazán, this small park provides weary travelers with some shady places to sit. Older men in wide-brimmed hats tend to perch here, making the most of the relative calm to read their newspapers and gossip. The park is the site of a 19th-century university; today its auditorium houses art exhibits and is a music-performance venue.