Hotel Veromar
Travel Blogs from Tela
Return to the Caribbean
... hands with us and wish us bon voyage. The owner even accompanied us most of the way back to the hotel, claiming that the streets of Tela were not safe at night.
Tela was clearly the sort of place that would grow on you and we felt we hadn’t really done it justice in the time we had spent there but on Wednesday we were going to Honduras’s main beach resort, Roatan in the Bay Islands, where we were going to put down roots for 5 days.
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Sea, sun and…erm…ganja?
... outdoors after 7.30pm”, warned a Rastafarian-looking local called Omar. To be honest, I didn’t heed his warning and ventured out and although I felt I had to keep my wits about me and was slightly on edge, nothing happened - except for having the best pizza I’ve had since I arrived here whilst listening to the crashing waves. Unsafe? Perhaps. A great experience? Definitely.It certainly doesn’t bear ...
A Gringa in Cofradia
... chaotic, my mentor seemed to think the goal of the lesson was met.
We also moved out of our home stays and into our permanent living spaces this past Sunday. I am in a 2 bedroom apartment sharing a bedroom with Sarah D from Texas and our other roommate is Kim from Michigan. It’s a nice roomy space with our own kitchen and common room with a nice front balcony. Sitting out on the balcony when the sun starts to go in makes for a fantastic ...
Our first taste of the Caribbean!
... The park is named after a woman who campaigned aggressively from 1992 to 1995 to stop the illegal poaching activity going on in the park. Unfortunately, she got on the wrong side of someone and was murdered in 1995, two days after a particularly large protest that she had organised. The park was then renamed in her honour.
We caught a boat across to Punta Sal on Friday morning and started with a trek through ...
Pico Bonito
... and went a bit higher up to the side of the falls, and then started crossing alongside of the mountain and starting our descent. A little later we stopped for lunch that the tour company gave us and poor Alejandro was carrying in his big guide backpack. He cut up a pineapple for us which was the most delicious thing ever. Finally after trudging along some more, we made it to the bridge that crossed back over the river! I was relived to have finished the hike. It was ...
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Amenities
- Free High-Speed Internet
- Beach
- Room service
- Restaurant
- Swimming pool