Utila, Honduras Travel Blogs

Stelaes, Hieroglyphs and Out of Air Emergencys!
Apr 6, 2005 (32 photos)

... two double super-comfy beds and cable TV. Keith was happy as he got to watch West Brom win for a change. Copan is Hondurasīs Tikal but on a far less grand scale. Itīs the incredibly well preserved stone carvings and sculptures that gives Copan itīs magic. ...

Iguanas and Tarantulas in the Caribbean
Jul 20, 2008 (6 photos)

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 Scott-and-Claire's-South- ...

Choppy water and pissing rain.
Nov 6, 2004 (12 photos)

... 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 mix ...

SCUBA fun!!
Jan 21, 2007 (8 photos)

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 the ...

Utila - Learning to Dive (we hope)
Sep 30, 2006 (8 photos)

... 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 ...

Certified!!!
Jun 29, 2004 (3 photos)

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 ...

Let's go diving
Jun 23, 2004 (11 photos)

... 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 ...

Scuba Duba Dooo!
Jul 18, 2003 (10 photos)

... 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 intensive ...

Welcome to Honduras!
Nov 5, 2007 (8 photos)

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 6 ...

Utila
Nov 17, 2004

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

The magical island of Utila
Aug 8, 2003 (4 photos)

... , 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 ...

Learning to fly underwater
Oct 6, 2007 (49 photos)

... 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 season ...

Scuba and Diarrhea
Jun 15, 2007 (25 photos)

 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
Aug 21, 2006

... 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
Jun 20, 2007 (2 photos)

... 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 tank ...

Utila Underwater
Jun 23, 2006 (132 photos)

The Great Underwater World is near you. Just click...

Kayak Diving
Sep 26, 2005 (28 photos)

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 ...

Utila Usmella
Jul 19, 2009

Not much to say on Utila except it disappointed... More to come.

My First Dive with Diverīs Equipment
Jan 9, 2009 (2 photos)

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
Sep 25, 2006

... 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 we ...

Diving in Utila and avoiding Felix
Sep 3, 2007 (4 photos)

... 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 the positive ...

Under the Sea
Jul 12, 2008 (40 photos)

... so I will blog sometime soon, I promise! Utila is one of the 3 Bay Islands in the Caribbean off the coast of Honduras.  They boast the world's second biggest coral reef that stretches up through the coast of Belize.  With such good diving it ...

Diving in Utila, Bay Islands
Jun 22, 2008 (16 photos)

... two large Baleados (tortillas filled with scrambled eggs, black bean paste, meat and cheese- absolutely delicious!) we bordered "The Princess Utila". The journey took about one hour and we were lucky enough to see three dolphins swim past the front of the ...

Jewel Cay and under the sea
Dec 9, 2006 (9 photos)

... 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 wrecks ...

goin' to da island...
Jul 29, 2006

... 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
Jan 8, 2009 (2 photos)

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 ...

Whale Sharks? Whale Sharks!
May 3, 2000

... . Utila is the nearest of the three Bay Islands-Caribbean Islands under the dominion of the government of Honduras. A true pirate refuge, Utila is a densely forested, terrestrial animal and plant paradise, but its biggest attraction is the coral reef ...

Hot 'n Wet ....the Weather Unfortunately
Jan 20, 2003

... travel abroad. Some brief showers in Livingston got the ball rolling, and from there it progressed steadily in Honduras, really picking up steam by the time we reached Utila. We got off the plane in the midst of a storm (that was Saturday) and the rain ...

Swimming with the Dolphins
Jun 24, 2005 (14 photos)

I've always thought about it, but didn't think I would ever do it. Swimming with dolphins usually entails paying a lot of money and then jumping into a pool or confined area with several other people and a few dolphins. And in my messed up, sometimes ...

Just hopped across to Honduras to scuba dive.
Dec 9, 2006 (4 photos)

Hello my people how is life? I have travelled across to Honduras as I fancied learning to scuba dive and it is a good and cheap place to learn.  Ok so I left from Rio Dulce on Wednesday, I think, it's difficult keeping track of days on the road.& ...