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Honduras is safe. The people that wrote those statistics probably have never left the state they were born in. Big cities anywhere are unsafe. Big cities at night are like unsafe on steroids.

We were just up to Michoacán for a week, despite dire warnings. There were serious problems in Apatzingan, but we took another route and had zero problems. RYV

my vote also for Honduras

We, too like Honduras. If you skip that, you'll miss Copan.

I have been to Honduras and would go again. That said - in a thread a month or so ago there was talk of safety in Mexico. I posted a link to a list from the UN that ranked Honduras the number one murder rate in the world - with 3 other central America countries in the top ten.

http://www.businessinsider.com/1homicidal-countries-2011-11 . . .

http://www.unodc.org/unodc/en/data-and-analysis/homicide.html . . .

I am not saying don't go to Honduras or anywhere else - just posting some facts. We drove all over Honduras and flew out to Roatan for SCUBA diving. No problems. But that was years ago.

We drove from California to Panama in 2010. Caribbean Honduras was one of our favorite places. Why would you not go there?