@looktheworldintheeye
Look The World In The Eye
  • Home
  • Blog
  • About Us
  • Get In Touch

Honduras 2012

4/2/2012

0 Comments

 
Picture
After travelling through 3 countries in one day we finally made it to La Ceiba, Honduras. 
The only reason we spent the night here was because we missed the last ferry of the day to Utila. In saying that we had a great night of dinner and drinks with some friends we'd made the journey from Belize with, and had extremely cheap and pleasant accommodation. 

We rose early the next morning to get the ferry to Utila, one of the Bay Islands.
On the ferry a lot of people got sick as it is quite a rocky journey and there are not many windows in the seated area. 
We've since heard they call that ferry the vomit comet. And we can definitely understand why.

Once on Utila we made our way to Alton's Dive Centre, as we had been recommended it by a fellow traveller. Sean and I signed up for our advanced diving certificate, settled into our room (free with dive course) and went off to explore the streets. The island had a great bakery with tasty baguettes and HEAPS of dive schools. Utila is seriously dive city, and whilst it is a fun backpacker vibe kinda island, if you're not a diver there isn't a whole heap to do there. That night it was Superbowl Sunday so we went to a place called RJ's and watched the game with a hearty meal of rice, chicken, beans and salad. The Central American standard (no complaints here). 

During our dive course we got to visit shipwrecks, dive at night under torchlight seeing illuminated coral and glowing octopuses, and dive down to 35m. That's deep! The course took 2 days and BOOM we were accredited. 
It is easy to see why Utila is so popular with scuba minded backpackers. The water is warm, clear, full of fish and coral and due to the abundance of dive schools in close proximity to one another, prices for courses, tanks and boat dives are extremely competitive. It's a wonderful place to visit on a budget and to catch the diving bug if you haven't already!

Whilst on the island we'd heard stories of a local bar called Skid Row. Rumour was if you could down 4 shots of the bars homemade spiced rum, you'd get a free singlet letting everyone know how tough you were (Ha!). So off we went with a couple of guys we'd been hanging out with and we attempted the challenge. I don't remember much of the night after the first shot challenge but I know I woke up the next morning with a pounding headache and TWO skid row singlets. 

By this stage of our trip we'd realised we had seriously underestimated how long it would take us to get to Panama, and we decided if we were going to make our flight home, we'd have to bypass mainland Honduras, Nicaragua and El Salvador. So we booked a flight from Roatan (the other Bay Island) to San Jose 2 days later.

Next stop Costa Rica..


0 Comments



Leave a Reply.

    Bec & Sean

    A couple of Aussies who love travelling, hiking, trail running and pretty much any activity you can do outdoors.

    Picture

    RSS Feed

    Categories

    All
    Argentina
    Australia
    Before You Travel
    Belize
    Bolivia
    Brazil
    Central America
    Chile
    Costa Rica
    Guatemala
    Honduras
    Itinerary
    Mexico
    North America
    Panama
    Peru
    South America
    Tasmania
    Thailand

    Archives

    October 2021
    March 2021
    October 2020
    September 2020
    August 2020
    July 2020
    April 2020
    August 2018
    July 2018
    June 2018
    May 2018
    March 2018
    February 2018
    October 2017
    September 2017
    August 2017
    June 2017
    November 2016
    October 2016
    June 2016
    May 2016
    March 2016
    January 2016
    November 2015
    October 2015
    September 2015
    August 2015
    July 2015
    June 2015
    May 2015
    April 2015
    March 2015
    February 2015
    January 2015
    December 2014
    November 2014
    October 2014
    September 2014
    August 2014
    March 2014
    May 2013
    February 2012
    January 2012
    December 2011

Bec & Sean - Look The World In The Eye