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Spanish Language Institute Of Intibuca (SLI)

The Lenca Indian Culture & Marketplace

Spanish and Cross Cultural Experiences In The Mountain Cloud Forest Of Honduras

Learn And Have Fun At The Same Time. It's Edutainment,  Music and Song, It's Games, It's Baile Folklorico, Its Honduran Rancheros, It's Cultural Visits, Its Interacting With The Lenca Indians And Other Indigenous People. It Learning Through The Exciting, Unique Novella/Textbook, "The Passions Of Arboleña"

Asociación Intibucana de Comunicación

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Culture Experiential Tourism

The Lenca Indian Culture & Marketplace

Experience the Freedom To Get To Know Modern Day Descendants Of the First Hondurans

You will love the Lenca Indians who walk to town out of the mountains wearing their characteristic mountain clothing.  You will love the good food and enjoy the friendly people. And you will breathe the cleanest air of your life on the top of these mountains where there are no factories and no industries.

Here in La Esperanza you will learn Spanish while immersed in both the Lenca Indian culture and the Spanish culture. The buildings in the town are Spanish colonial and that culture still reigns here. And you will be immersed in the Spanish Language.  What is the best way to learn a language?  It is to be immersed in it.  Here at the Spanish Language Institute we make your Spanish learning a full immersion experience.

Lenca children are beautiful.  Meet them through our Cultural tours. Also visit our Children of Intibuca page.

What you will see in La Esperanza

Every morning over the paved road from Siguatepeque are found the mountain Lenca people coming to town.  You can tell they are the mountain people by the colorful bright clothing they wear.  The women dress in bright red, green, blue, orange and maroon colored dresses and blouses and skirts covered by beautiful woolen handmade sweaters from Guatemala.  They come down from mountain aldeas on foot, in carts and on bicycles.  Some come leading their horses with firewood (leña) to sell in the market.  Some are lucky enough to catch one of the big trucks and get a ride on the back.

They come from the high mountain aldea of Ologosi where there is fog or nieblina every night. It gets cold in Ologosi where the people need 3-4 Guatemala blankets (blankets of pure wool) in order to sleep.  Here you will see fires but usually in the cook shed where everyone gathers to warm up.  They don’t cook in their houses for fear of burning them up.  They come from the Laguna Chiligatura where they fish by having their young sons swim to catch fish by hand.  There are no fishing poles. It may take an hour or more to walk to La Esperanza often with a basket of cooked food for sale in the market on the tops of their heads.  You may see them carrying their handicraft, their honey, their baked bread, and their other items to sell.

Many come to talk with friends from other aldeas, to buy staples like butter, margarine, rice, beans, harina, sugar, spices, soap and other necessities for life in these mountains. After they finish shopping for staples if there is money left they will buy a coke and cookies as a treat. Then they congregate on specific corners where they meet old friends and enjoy a community sharing before beginning the long trip back to their home in the mountains. And remember they came down before.  Now they have to climb back up.

It often looks like you are in a field of flowers when you see so many of them in one part of town with all the different colors of clothing.  They often wear hand-woven scarves of bright colors as well.  These are the people who come to town once or maybe twice each month and they fill the town with color and brightness.

It is a sight to see.  And you will see it here in La Esperanza.