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Both my copies of Lonely Planet and Rough Guide said to give Puerto Barrios a miss. Its a sleazy port city on the Caribbean coast, best used to transit through as fast as possible going from Punta Gorda Belize to Honduras or vice versa. Naturally after reading that I knew I had to spend the night there.

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Both my copies of Lonely Planet and Rough Guide said to give Puerto Barrios a miss. Its a sleazy port city on the Caribbean coast, best used to transit through as fast as possible going from Punta Gorda Belize to Honduras or vice versa. Naturally after reading that I knew I had to spend the night there.

Puerto Barrios is not as sleazy as the guide books makes it out to be. The port has been revitalized and is now a major container port that occupies the area north of Calle 9 to Calle 6. This port is incidentally in direct competition with Puerto Cortes south of it in Honduras. I was advised by an expat that this is the main reason the Honduran Government has not improved (paved) the road on their side of the border that connects the two cities.

The sleazy red light district both guidebooks note as being on Calle 9 no longer exists. The main danger here now is being run over by a transport truck, which run all night from the container port. What is left of the old sleazy district is a collection of a dozen or so bars and strip joints up around 8th Avenue between Calle 6 and Calle 7 west of the Post Office.

Of course I speak from first hand experience regarding said sleazy bars. As soon as the sun went down and after a quick but delightful dinner, I was checking them out first hand. I was only able to examine a half dozen or so in total. This was only possible by severely limiting myself to a quick beer or two, or three in each one.

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