Country Info
- Tegucigalpa
- Capital
- Lempira (HNL)
- Currency
- 6,406,052
- Population
- HN
- Country Code
Utila Slideshow
Top Hotels in Utila
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Laguna Beach Resort Utila
35 reviews -
The Colibri Hill Resort Utila
18 reviews
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Sea Eye Resort Utila
3 reviews -
Deep Blue Resort Utila
64 reviews
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Lighthouse Hotel Utila
43 reviews
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Trudy's Hotel Utila
16 reviews
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Utila Lodge
26 reviews
Utila
Travel Blogs from Utila, 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 wasnīt possible, I was gutted as you can imagine. We had a lovely time just ...
Iguanas and Tarantulas in the Caribbean
This is a top pick! Claire: I'm writing this from the lovely air-conditioned office at the Iguana Research and Breeding Station on Utila, Honduras. Its 9pm at night here. Just to set the scene... we've just had a delicious dinner of prawns and ...
Choppy water and pissing rain.
This is a top pick! ... spirit. It's however time for me to leave Utila after just (everything is relative) six nights and seven days. I really liked Utila, except for the abundance of mosquitoes, sand flies and the relatively dreary weather the last few days. It's a great ...
Utila - Learning to Dive (we hope)
This is a top pick! ... 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 fellow ...
Fire and Water
This is a top pick! ... desire to climb the mountains that I am diving under. I see perfect climbing routes everywhere, minus the masses of coral. Utila lacks rockclimbing because all of its mountains are underwater. Unfortunately, every good thing must come to an end. ...
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 didnīt like ...
Tom becomes Scuba Steve
This is a top pick! ... collapsing and ending up in a pile at the bottom. For the rest of the evening, the music blared and the alcohol flowed. We left Utila feeling slightly disappointed with the environment but overall it was fun due to the Independence Day celebrations. ...
Scuba Duba Dooo!
This is a top pick! ... the tag we planted. Before I got here, spent a week in Tegucigalpa, or Tegus as it's known locally, it's the capital of Honduras and I'd never even heard of the place b4! It must be the most random capital in the world! So I had another weeks ...
Let's go diving
This is a top pick! ... a one night stay here, I had enough and headed to La Ceiba ... the 3rd largest city in Honduras and launching point to the famous Bay Islands of Utila and Roatan. Utila is the cheapest place in the world to obtain the PADI open water certification for ...
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! ... , I have never enjoyed doing NOTHING every day so much!! Since I last spoke we had the culmination of "the magical island of Utila" carnival - after a week of street parties, there was a big street parade. We even made a float for it with the turtle ...
likkle backpacker island
This is a top pick! ... I met Mary from Quebec, who was the only other gringo on the bus, her Spanish is shit hot and because she is living on Utila right sorted everything out for me like the chicken bus to centro, buying a sea sickness pill, taxi to the ferry and even the ...
now officially advanced..
This is a top pick! ... deep dive.. I learnt a whole lot on this course and I'm a hundred times more confident in the water now.. If anyone's coming to Utila try and find my instructor, Warren, who's working at the Cross Creek dive centre, he is patient, friendly and a good ...
Learning to fly underwater
This is a top pick! ... lower than four times the price listed in the guidebook. The actual ferry ticket to the islands had doubled in price. Maybe Utila was still cheap, but getting there wasn't. Arriving at the docks was an interesting experience. We were still in low ...
Scuba and Diarrhea
This is a top pick! Utila is an Island located of the north coast of Honduras. Itīs famous on the gringo trail as the cheapest place in the world to get scuba certified and to fun dive. Having seen my fair share of the world I can honestly ...
Chichen Itza and Chicken Buses Part 2
This is a top pick! ... for a bloke to turn up, the heat was sweltering and it was raining, so we had to cram in the boat. 9) The ride across to Honduras took 2hours, we had to wait over an hour at imagration, we people jumping on the boat to try and change money 10)Next up a ...
Taking a break in Utila
... think tomorrow we are going to travel with Anne, Michael and Bitto to Nicaragua which is cool that we are staying together. In Utila James and I have done a lot of diving as it's so cheap here. The conditions have been ideal but for 11 pounds per ...
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 ...
Diving and relaxing
... opazila, da so turisti vecinoma mladi. Otok je proti najinim pricakovanjem bil kar precej neurejen. Edino mesto na otoku je Utila, ki je pravzaprav ena sama ulica. Na vsaki strani ulice so bolj ali manj neurejene hise v ameriskem stilu. ...
My First Dive with Diverīs Equipment
Rano jsme meli tradicne vyuku. Vysvetlili jsme si zakladni pravidla potapeni a odpoledne jsme konecne mohli vyrazit do vody. Ze zacatku se potapi na melcine resp. v 1,5 m hloubce. Poprve jsem dychal z tanku. Neznam ceske vyrazy pro vsechno to vybaveni, ...
Back to the Carribean
... the ruins in Copan (which sadly lived up to the expected disapointment, after Tikal), and we're back on the Carribean! 5 days on Utila (the cheapest place in the world to learn, and supposedly one of the best places in the world to scuba dive), and ...
Diving in Utila and avoiding Felix
... who hadnīt 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 ĻlostĻ from our itinerary, so on ...
Jewel Cay and under the sea
... Open Water under the excellent instruction of Dan (an expert in aquatic life). If you're into diving, we'd strongly recommend Utila (and Captain Morgan's) as there is excellent coral reef and a great variety of dive sites (including a couple of ...
goin' to da island...
... I had missed most of it but what I did see was great and so I'm really looking forward to experiencing a proper one eventually! Utila, and all the Bay Islands, are renowned for their amazing scuba diving and so I decided to sign up to do my advanced ...
Kayaking and Snorkeling at Playa El Chepas
Dnes odpoledne me zacne vyuka potepeni, takze rano se domlouvam se svym spolubydlicim Alonsem z Costa Ricy, ze spolu vyrazime snorchlovat ke koralum. Koraly jsou opet nadherne a uz se moc tesim, az se budu potapet do metrovych hloubek a budu videt ...