Early Friday afternoon, December 12, our team of 10 adults will board the church yellow bus for the small, rural village of Yamaranguila situated about three hours from San Pedro Sula.

Yamaranguila is a very typical Honduran village. The town's nearly 300 homes, mostly made of adobe or block with red tile roofs, are scattered throughout the hills and pine woods. In the evening you see women and young girls carrying their baskets full of produce as they return from their farms or from the market. Men in sombreros and boys with machetes return from the fields. Chickens run free and pigs, instead of collars, wear "Y" shaped sticks to keep them from crawling under the fences and entering fields. Women work from dawn until after dark raising their families and taking care of household chores. Despite their poverty, Hondurans are known as very warm and generous people who treat their guests well and share everything they have with them.

 Situated in the heart of the Honduran mainland, high up in the mountains, the department of Intibuca offers some of the best climate in Central America, intermingled with a pleasant, colonial city surrounded by mountains populated with small, indigenous towns full of color and folklore. Although Honduran indigenous people do not have the colorful costumes and traditions of neighboring Guatemala, this is by far the most colorful and traditional area of the Lenca community and one of the most intriguing areas of Honduras. 

With an altitude of one mile over sea level, (1,600 m.) climate here is famous for being the coldest in Honduras. Amongst the most unique facts your will find about the Lenca is that the women enjoy working the land. If you take a trip into the country, you will find many women out in the fields. The department of Intibuca is the most important vegetable and potatoes producing area in the country. The Lenca people have produced most of the vegetables you will find in the supermarkets in Honduras. Yamaranguila is a nice, very quaint Lenca community located very close to La Esperanza. In addition to the nice colonial church, Yamaranguila also has an auxiliary city hall, which operates under the Lenca leadership and coexists with the local government.