Horseback Riding, La Ceiba

Omega Tours offers a great horseback riding adventure fun for the whole family. Ride your own docile horse through farmland and across the beach. If you're brave, they'll let you get them going into a trot or even a gallop. Else just sit back and enjoy the scenery.

Anyone under 16 must wear a helmet to participate in the horseback riding tour at Omega Tours. She's got it over a baseball cap.

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My daughter got her own horse. She was only 4.5, but the horses are small enough and tame enough to allow this. Plus we're in a country that isn't nearly as litigious as the USA.

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Stable owners prepare some equipment for the ride. The building is their house. People build their own houses here. The stables are in the backyard - about 8 stalls in all. Apparently the head of the household recently died. He was allegedly Honduras' best known horse trainer, and he passed his skills onto his sons.

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Stable owners prepare some equipment for the ride. The building is their house. The stables are in the backyard - about 8 stalls in all. Apparently the head of the household recently died. He was allegedly Honduras' best known horse trainer, and he passed his skills onto his sons.

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A few horses ready to go. They just need riders.

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Me on my horse. It was immediately apparent how much smaller horses were here than in the USA. They didn't want me carrying my camera equipment until I felt I was confident enough in my riding abilities. Fine with me. It didn't take long. The horses were quite docile, and I have ridden a few times before.

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On the road. My daughter's horse is under the control of Shaggy, one of the horse trainers from the stable. Hats are always a good idea here.

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Riding through the farms and ranches. This is a banana farm.

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A ceiba tree, for which the city is named, towers in the distance. These things are MASSIVE. Honestly you couldn't fit 5 people arm-in-arm around the base. They live hundreds of years. I guess they're kind of the equivalent to our redwoods. The trees in the foreground are normal size pines. Wow!\n\nBut the weird thing about these trees is that each one is on its own schedule when it comes to losing its leaves. You could have one barren ceiba tree right across the street from one with full foliage.

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Farmers/ranchers wash their laundry in the river.

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This isn't farmland now, but it used to be before Hurricane Mitch wiped it all out in the 1990s. Silvia (from Omega Tours) has to pay some boys every 2 weeks(!!) to machete the pathway clear.

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Our first water crossing was no problem.

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At least half of our ride was on the beach. Here we're paused before a deep water crossing. They collected my camera equipment just in case, and they advised us to keep our feet out of the stirrups and parallel to the ground when going through.\n\nLater, on the way back, we had one of these water crossings and something happened where my daughter fell off her horse as it was exiting the steep incline out of the river. She never hit the ground - she just calmly dangled with one foot still in the stirrup and one hand holding the reins. She wasn't hurt at all, but she was shaken up.

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A Honduran family poses for their father to take a picture. I got one, too.

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We tied up the horses outside a small bar and grill on the beach.

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Here's that bar and grill we stopped at. Omega Tours always packed a simple lunch of sandwich, chips, sometimes fruit, sometimes drink. In this case we got some sodas from the restaurant. Wife and daughter had to use the restroom, but they opted to hold it for another 3 hours after they saw what this place had to offer.

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The view outside the bar and grill.

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On the way back, something happened at a water crossing where my daughter fell off her horse as it was exiting the steep incline out of the river. She never hit the ground - she just calmly dangled with one foot still in the stirrup and one hand holding the reins. She wasn't hurt at all, but she was shaken up.\n\nWe got her back on the horse, this time riding with Shaggy on the same horse. I rode hers. She was silent and dazed the whole trip back. Until she saw the kitty at the stables - that snapped her out if it, and from then on she was fine.

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