Honduran lempira

The ATMs on Utila are notorious for running completely dry, especially on busy weekends or holidays, and credit card acceptance is very patchy outside of the major dive centers.

You need to physically bring Honduran lempira and crisp US dollars with you.

Good advice.

And if we pull all these line items together, so the bed, the food, the transit, the diving, we can map out the ultimate daily burn rate for our traveler categories.

And, uh, they've more recently in Prospera introduced also Bitcoin as a unit of account.

So if you want to just not use US dollars, Honduran lempira whatsoever, you can do all of your receipts in, in Bitcoin and all of your outgoings in Bitcoin, and then when you're calculating what you need to pay to Prospera in terms of your annual fees or, um, your taxation, then those come from a kind of calculation based purely on your, your Bitcoin, um, without needing to convert what, what was it worth at this date in US dollars and then kind of tot it all up.

So, uh, in the zones, yes, they tend to be very liberal to, to use of multiple currencies.

In Prospera in particular, they've got a Bitcoin center which is run by Dusan Matuska.

Speaking of local eating, let's talk about the currency and the ultimate street food staple there.

OK, so the official currency is the Honduran lempira.

In 2026, it trades at roughly 24 to 25 lempiras to one U.S. dollar.

Do you need to carry a ton of local cash?

would be

Lempira.

Oh,

see, I didn't know that.