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Travel Blogs from Utila
A Hot Honduran Paradise
The Bay Islands, situated in the Caribbean Sea, is one of Honduras' biggest tourist attractions as it boasts the second largest barrier reef in the world. There are 3 major islands: Utila, Roatan, and Guanaja. Roatan is the largest and most developed; Utila is the least expensive and where the backpackers head, and Guanaja is the most high-end, …
Going the Distance
We arrived in Honduras late at night after crossing the border in the dark and rolling into Copan in the midst of a power cut. Copan is a pretty little cowboy town full of machete brandishing muchachos walking with that cowboy swagger peering out from under their cowboy style sombrero and clutching at their over sized belt buckle. Unfortunately …
Sitting on the dock of the bay islands
The temperature in Nicaragua was stifling hot – 40C each day and 90% humidity. As such, we thought we would head over to the caribbean coast of Honduras to try to find some cooler (relatively) weather. We had heard quite a lot about the Bay islands having amazing diving and specifically Utila, one of the islands, was more geared up for …
Scuba Luba Diving
Spent 15 nights (literally couldn't bring ourselves to leave - even though were only supposed to spend 2 weeks in every COUNTRY) at this chilled island off the Caribbean coast of Honduras. Spent 4 days doing a PADI open water scuba diving course and after getting to grips with the bizarreness of breathing underwater, overcoming my fear of seaweed …
Utila Chapter 1: The Crazy Doctor
I feel that there are several chapters of Utila so I will write them out in sections...
The first chapter belongs to Muna and Sophie. It wasn't a particularly good time since I was sick and wasn't sure if I liked the island yet, but I was still able to enjoy their company.
After a few hours on the bus from Copan, we arrived in La Ceiba and …