Tela, Honduras Travel Blogs

Night of the Yowling Cat
Mar 23, 2006 (4 photos)

We have spent the last two nights in the beach town of Tela. Honduras is dead-set on turning Tela into the next Cancun, but in the meantime it is a nice place to be. Pleasant vibe, lots of humidity, not very expensive. After checking out a few more ...

viva la vida
Jul 31, 2008 (5 photos)

... isnt yeton its way. No we just havnt worte the blog in a while because we´ve been busy seeing the sights of honduras bacuse were on the move already. But first the iguana station. So Claire made me that birthday cake and it was delicious. It ...

Crossing Honduras
Jan 19, 2007 (20 photos)

... various beers. Our main objective this week, however, was to dip our toes in the turquoise waters of the Caribbean on Honduras' northern coast. Unfortunately, the rainy season hasn't quite ended here - which has meant stormy seas and cloudy days - so ...

Beach, Bike and Hike
Jan 10, 2007 (7 photos)

Our first evening in Tela, a "beach city" in northern Honduras, was no more than shopping around for an affordable hotel, checking out various disappointing book exchanges, and eating dinner at a restaurant oddly called the "Luces del Norte" (Northern ...

Carribean Dreaming......Or not!!
Jun 14, 2007 (5 photos)

... outside who just kept glaring in our window!! Now we can laugh, but at the time we were really uncomfortable, we visited Tela expecting good cheap eateries and accommodation and gorgeous beaches - that was not what we found! So, next morning up at ...

We have de-railed..............
Oct 5, 2003

... to La Ceiba with the intention of catching a ferry to the bay islands ie Roatan, but end up getting off the bus in Tela for budget reasons. This is where we got shipwrecked for five days....long story short: we were really disappointed at first (trash, ...

Tela
Nov 13, 2004

Hi Guys, You can read our update from Tela in our entry from Omoa, Honduras entitled 'A Taste of the Carribean'. Cheers, K & S

Un deux trois je pars a Tela
Aug 3, 2007

... et Felipe et j'y rencontre Melanie et Diane, deux québécoises que nous avons rencontrées à Utila. Elles nous présentent le projet d'aller immédiatement à Tela, petite ville près de la côte à 2 heures de La Ceiba. Mon j'achète le projet, j'ai déjà vu La Ceiba et Tela ...

Into Honduras
Feb 23, 2009 (3 photos)

... different, no one was in line for immigration. We just walked up paid $5.00 and got our entrance stamp in Honduras. I'm sure this experience will be fairly different when doing border crossings in the future.  Crossing the border we decided on staying in ...

Punta Sal (Mieke, Kathleen en Koen)
Aug 13, 2007

Hola, Vandaag hebben we onze eerste trip als drietal achter de rug. We hebben een tour gedaan naar het mooie natuurreservaat van Punta Sal. Eerst werden we met een lancha naar deze mooie plek gebracht. Onderweg werden we verrast door een aantal ...

90 days have flown by! To Honduras, or ...
Sep 2, 2006 (5 photos)

... case had to be at a border or port with other countries than the 4 in Central America. Hence we decided to continue to Tela, Honduras which is a port on the northern shore in the Caribbean and were I was going to stay anyway. However, it was Sunday and ...

Kayaks Suck.
Aug 15, 2006

... and I started taking cipro as well. That all worked and in a couple of days I was better and we left Granada for Tegucigalp, Honduras, where we were going to spend the night, but we decided to keep going to San Pedro Sula. For the bus to Tegucigalpa, we ...

Tela - Garifuna and unspoiled beaches
Jul 17, 2007 (26 photos)

... I have to admit the mappinning is not quite right. I skipped the pin for La Ceiba and went directly to Tela. La Ceiba is the 3rd biggest city in Honduras and it just does not look like its a big city. However we found all what we needed there. I ...

Tela Mar
Jan 18, 2008 (5 photos)

... over priced but it was beachfront, quiet, and pretty good.  Tela Mar is supposed to be one of the best beaches in Honduras, aside from the Bay Islands.  Some of our friends thought that it was horrible, but that is because they are from Australia ...

Hurricane Dean (J en T)
Aug 21, 2007

Hoi hoi We zitten hier in Tela, een rustig caraibisch dorpje met een mooi palmbomenstrand. Maar aangezien de orkaan Dean in de buurt is was het weer niet echt schitterend zodat we geen uitstappen konden doen omdat de zee te wild was. We waren dan maar ...

Honduras
Feb 19, 2007

... didn't look to pretty. Lot of garbage everywhere, but i am sure that was all there before the rain. Tela is on the north west coast of Honduras. You start to notice the Garufina/ carribean culture like Belize. The town was so small, with a bunch of ...

Tela
Feb 20, 2007 (5 photos)

Wow, am I behind in my blogs... Tela was an interesting little city, but slightly dissapointing.  To be honest, it not fair to judge when I had the worst few days of weather of my entire stay in South America here, as it is primarily a beach resort ...

Garifuna in abandon
Apr 14, 2009

... used as a research station and spent a very pleasent hour with a guide who very patiently repeated what each plant was about three times untill be fully understood it. With tela done we are of the capital for the night before heading into niguragua.

Passing through Tela
Jan 20, 2008

... much.  The owner gives a recomendation for the place down the street and I don't argue.  This is a mistake.  I hear Tela is a great place to find cheap seafood so I head to the beach.  After a few overpriced beach hotels I find a nice ...

No room at the Inns
Feb 23, 2007

... point I'd had enough and I wasn't going to make the last ferry to Utila so I decided to say in the beachside town of Tela.  This was easier said than done.  After six hotels that were full, two that charged as if they were situated in New York ...

Tela, Honduras
Apr 21, 2007

Tela, Honduras

Volcanoes, Pupusas and Bluebird buses
Mar 3, 2009 (55 photos)

... Guatemala had created this united visa thingie and in actuality we only had 90 days for all 4 countries.  The Honduras and Nicaragua borders don't really know what they're doing, as nice as those folks with big guns are.  So ...

A dirty Caribbean beach town
May 3, 2007

... beach town. The local people call themselves Garifunas, and are descendants from african slaves. They have a number of traditional communities scattered along the north coast of Honduras. More soon. In the meantime, im diving in the Bay Islands.

Skippable town
Jul 21, 2008

Derek and I planned to meet for breakfast and then sign up for the most popular Tela excursion to Punta Sal National Park. The tour consists of a 45 minute boat ride to an island (Punta Sal) and to walk through the jungle, snorkel near the island, and ...

Seafood Heaven
Feb 21, 2006 (4 photos)

... trees shady and the water just wavy enough to make it perfect for bobbing about in the waves. The villages surrounding Tela are populated by the Garifuna people. Descended from African slaves they look more Caribean Islander than Latin American. We ...

Relaxing on the beach.
Feb 22, 2007 (4 photos)

My border problems continued in Honduras.  I had taken a mini shuttle to cross Guatemala for 40 minutes in order to reach Honduras.  I forgot to change my Belize dollars for Quetzales before getting in the van.  When we arrived in Honduras, ...

Central America re-visited
Feb 27, 2007 (10 photos)

... hold your money till the next day and $3 to the tout that delivers the money to the bank and gets the necessary stamp. Honduras boasts that its borders are open 24 hours but have now put in a system that actually severely limits the hours of operation for ...

Tela at last! And well worth it...
Apr 1, 2008

... bus and a comfortable 90 minute ride. The bus left 5 minutes early, and we almost missed it after finding a quick lunch. Once in Tela, we wandered with our packs looking at hotels for an hour or so, finally settling on Hotel Rio Mar, which is no frills, ...

The Old Man And Sea
Feb 18, 2009

... country entry stamp) and vehicle insurance (where required). It was also far more expensive to temporarily import Gloria into Honduras than El Salvador or Guatemala. Well enough about border crossing procedures. Here's a quick story about how to ...

Holes in Shirt and strike
Jul 21, 2008

I decided at 9:30AM to take the 10:30 bus from Copan to Tela. I saw a 11AM bus that was available but when the hotel called, they said that bus was only available if the 10:30 bus if full. So I rushed to the bus station and was immediately told that the ...