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Nearly all of Tegucigalpa's sights concentrate in Barrio El Centro, its historic downtown. The scarcity of acceptable center-city accommodation means you'll probably stay elsewhere in town and will need to taxi downtown to see the sights. A half day gives you a rushed overview; a full day lets you explore more leisurely. Think about winding up your downtown sightseeing day around 4 pm. Taxis become difficult to find during the evening rush hour, and wandering around downtown on foot at night is risky. (It gets dark here between 6 and 6:30 pm.) Walking the center-city streets during the day entails the same precautions you'd take in any new city: watch your things.
One of the capital's top sights, the new Chiminike children's museum, lies outside downtown in the southern reaches of the city.
Check out all that is creepy and crawly at the small but informative Serpentario Santa Lucía, with a small collection of snakes, both venomous and nonvenomous. They represent a variety of the snakes found around the country, although most are native to the nearby Parque Nacional La Tigra.
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