We left San Pedro Sula at Tuesday morning. We took a private taxi straight from hotel to La Ceiba which is the place the ferry goes to Utila (and also Roatan, the biggest of Bay islands). Driving took about three hours and ferry about one hour so it was at 5 pm we were in Utila.
We had booked a room from Bay view hotel for the first week. It's a very basic, small room with a double bed and fan, but it's clean enough and has wifi and a private bathroom with hot water though we haven't found it yet ;) Not that we need it since it's about 30 degrees during night and even 36 during the day. The room is about 20 USD per night so it's not bad although we have planned to find even cheaper accommodation later this week. Our hotel has a very nice location just in the front of Caribbean sea. It's just about five meters from our door to water. The hotel is very quit too, maybe one other person is staying here at the moment.
First day we just relaxed, did some swimming and went to the cinema (yes, there is a small "cinema" in the island) cause by change they had a finnish movie there (first time in their history). It was a movie called "Hulluna Saraan". It was ok, very finnish movie spoken mostly in finnish and little bit in english also but they had subtitels in english. There was owner and two other people in the cinema also (all americans) and they seemed to laugh in the right places of the movie. So maybe it worked also in english ;)
Today we had our first two dives here. There are many dive shops in the island and we decided to try a couple of them first and maybe later to dive with same shop if some of them seems to be the better than the rest. We left dive shop at 8 AM and took a half hour boat drive to the north side of the island. We did two almost an hour dives there. The places were really nice and water was warm, 29 degrees celsius. We didn't take camera under the water this time but we will take some diving pics later also and add them here.
So everything is great here, I really love the island so far and I'm so excited to do more diving. If diving is good we maybe staying here even two months, we'll see, our plans are very flexible at the moment. (This is the one of the cheapest place to dive in the world.)
-Maija
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| Maija found her favorite petrol station ;) There was many of them in mainland Honduras. |
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| At the ferry to Utila. |
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| There is a cat in the house also. |
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| First local beer in Utila |
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| Checking water temperature after arriving to the island (it's warm) |
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| Do they really have a finnish movie here? |
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| Getting lazy in our sea front "garden". |
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| One more episode of Breaking bad |
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| We had some fish barbecue (super delicious) |
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| Having "comido tipica" for lunch after diving. |
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| There are crabs everywhere on the ground. |
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| Our room. |
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| We have also private bathroom. |
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| The Caribbean sea is just couple of steps from our door. |
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| Olli was exhausted after diving and lunch. |
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