Understand
A sleepy coastal town. Tela has been slowly but surely working its way to becoming an important beach destination.
Tela is located in a region inhabited by the afro-caribe communities called the Garifuna. The Garifuna live on communally owned land around the Tela area and have their own distinct language and culture.
Tela has been the site of a pilot program aimed to create the Tourist Police. The result has been outstanding, with a force of 20 bilingual, friendly tourist police officers. Statistics show that there has been absolutely no crime incidents against tourists in Tela for several years now.
