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Roatan Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Roatan, Honduras
Stelaes, Hieroglyphs and Out of Air Emergencys!
This is a top pick! ... lot to each other and taking walks around the town we didnt really do much else. We considered a hike to the highest peak in Honduras but sadly the weather changed and it wasn´t possible, I was gutted as you can imagine. We had a lovely time just ...
Choppy water and pissing rain.
This is a top pick! Today it's exactly one month since I left Seattle. Time is moving at a decent pace down here, and I think I have managed to do and see a lot so far. To be honest I haven't spent much time thinking about the past or even the future. Here it's the present ...
Utila - Learning to Dive (we hope)
This is a top pick! ... of England put us off a bit! We therefore decided that we would spend 3 days / 4 nights on one of the Bay Islands in Honduras, and so selected Utila (as it is one of the cheapest places to learn in the Caribbean). On the way over here we were told by a ...
Now I Can't Eat Grouper
This is a top pick! I'm sitting on the sea bottom off the island of Roatan, in the Caribbean Sea. Even at one hundred and ten feet below the surface, the water is warm. Juergen, my Divemaster takes a banana from his sack and hands it to me. I shrug my ...
Sailing From Honduras to Guatemala
This is a top pick! ... Captain Pete expertly maneuvered our craft past jagged rocky outcrops. We anchored in a sheltered little cove near Punta Sol, Honduras. Calm, clear water surrounded the catamaran. A gentle breeze shifted the palm fronds on the nearby jungle beach. After ...
Certified!!!
This is a top pick! As of this afternoon, I now have my Open Water Certification to scuba dive to 60 feet. The whole experience was really cool even though a lot of it was developing skills needed for rare emergency situations. Tomorrow, I have 2 free "fun dives" where I ...
SCUBA fun!!
This is a top pick! After our wonderful day yesterday (not really) we decided to get out of La Ceiba and go to Utila in the Bay Islands. We got an early taxi to the ferry with a French Canadian (FC from now on) for the hour long ride across the water. We didn´t like ...
Roatan - A Caribbean Paradise
This is a top pick! ... had to cope with no less than three consecutive power cuts. We were soon to learn that this is a very common occurrence on Roatan, as is the possibility that water cannot be guaranteed every time you turn on the tap! The fillet of fish I ordered turned ...
The Last Stop
This is a top pick! ... have seriously impaired circadian rhythms, crowing out their tune at pretty much any hour of the day. The SCUBA in Roatan is terrific. Multicolored reefs, resplendent sea life, and rock bottom prices make Roatan a top spot on the international dive ...
Diving!
This is a top pick! Two days of traveling brought us to Utila, Honduras, one of the Bay Islands, famous for its cheap diving courses. Today (wednesday) we start with the theory, tomorrow more theory and diving skills in shallow water, on day three we ll be diving twice to 12 ...
Let's go diving
This is a top pick! I have been on the move since my last update from Copan. After a couple days in San Pedro Sula, Honduras' 2nd largest city, I traveled to the small village of Omoa, right on the Caribbean Sea. I haven't seen the Atlantic Ocean since I left Belize and the ...
Welcome to Honduras!
This is a top pick! So even though we were sad to leave Guatemala, we immediately found Honduras to be an equally amazing place and, at least near Copan, even more friendly than Guate...hard to imagine! We hopped a microbus from Antigua to Copan Ruinas that took about ...
Utila
This is a top pick! Hi Guys, You can read our update from Utila in our entry from Omoa, Honduras entitled 'A Taste of the Carribean'. Cheers, K & ...
The magical island of Utila
This is a top pick! Well I left Utila, a week late never-the-less, but at least I actually made it back to the mainland (some still haven't been found after they left Water Caye after SunJam!!) Over three weeks on a Carribean island really is a tonic for the body and the ...
Paradise at last................
This is a top pick! ... near as rough as we had expected, upon arrival in Roatan we were accosted by taxi drivers, who even though we are still in Honduras generally speak English and quote everything in dollars! So, 15USD is a bit much for a taxi drive in our opinion, and so ...
Scuba and Diarrhea
This is a top pick! ... feeling like death. This island is interesting because even though it belongs to Honduras , it was settled by British slaves so the locals are African/Hispanic mix that speak ...
Team Honduras come together (with poo update)
This is a top pick! We took a ferry to roatan to meet up with "Team Honduras" which consisted of Heather Leigh Frankovis, Ann Marie Jarvis, Brandy Windham, and child prodigy Nora. We painted Roatan red by partaking in such activities as trespassing in an expensive Italian ...
I have news for you
This is a top pick! .. and the news is: the bites are not better. They are horrible! We go diving, in the water the itch is bearable. Between the 2 dives, we try to move. Nooooo, the room becomes free tomorrow, not today. Even I do not become upset with that stuff here ...
I wanna go home
This is a top pick! It was bound to happen. The day I want to go home. But I do not think it would be because of a couple (of hundred) bites. Diving is very good again. We have a diving master from Chili. He introduces me to a Belgian diving instructor. We ask the ...
Diving in Honduras: the procedure
This is a top pick! I will tell you how diving works here. The result is the same everywhere, how to GET there is different everywhere. In fact, here you work HARD to get there. It will look like hubby does all the work. Which is not true. It was just for the pictures. I ...
A lazy day in paradise
This is a top pick! We sleep in and are JUST in time for breakfast: 11h! Dr T decides we have to top up our drinks and we go to the store. Since we do not have a fridge, we also buy a bag of ice. My poor hubby carries the whole lot home. See picture: Tony with backpack ...
When boats grow wheels ...
This is a top pick! ... are NOT planning to take us to the harbor but to a mini bus to DRIVE us to La Ceiba (the mainland of Honduras, where we have to take a ferry to Roatan, our diving island). Dr T (in his so gentle way) starts discussing that we agreed on a speed boat, ... ...
'I am not coming diving'
This is a top pick! ... one in Thailand, even a chicken TRAIN! But, I do not know where to look first. Outside of the bus, there is Honduras, the jungle, the nothingness, the poverty. Inside the bus, there are the Hondurans. People are extremely poor. The first lady sitting ...
Planning to leave Honduras, the whoooole day!
This is a top pick! ... and work our way through them. What can be so hard about booking that, you ask? Well: Flight: 1 airline is flying from Roatan to Gran Cayman. You have to FIND those guys first. Then: the website is in Spanish. We already know: do not go down ...
Honduras, would you believe?
This is a top pick! We get up late, enjoy brekkie and go for strolls. Wonderful place. Even Dr T is enthusiastic! We walk the about 2km stretch, full of hotels, resto's, diving shops and bars. We inquire about internet. The room above the transmitter becomes available ...
A Typical Morning
A Typical Morning "Okay Ruby, breakfast is ready." I announce. "Ahhh Genny; Ruby is a lizard." Dave reminds me. "I know that, but he needs to eat too." I say matter-of-factly. Besides you know his name; that makes him more then just a lizard." ...
Kayak Diving
Being on a small island it is sometimes hard to get enough exercise walking, which is why kayaking is good. Not that exercise is the real reason we thought it would be a smart idea to load up the kayaks with diving equipment and go diving. It's more ...
Back to the Carribean
A couple of days in El Salvador (home to the friendliest people i've met so far), a crazy 4 hr bus trip in which we covered 30 kms, and a visit to the ruins in Copan (which sadly lived up to the expected disapointment, after Tikal), and we're back on the ...
Diving in Utila and avoiding Felix
... us and who hadn´t gotten to do any diving or anything. Our next destination was the ancient Maya site of Copan, on the Honduras-Nicaragua border. Because we had left Utila so quickly, we gained back some of the time we had ¨lost¨ from our itinerary, ...