First thing I noticed was how good looking and well dressed the people were. Probably the best looking Ive seen in North America and a few other foreigners have said that as well. Passed through some massive bus stations that were practically shopping malls full of lovely food, very
modern shops and s
tylish clothes shops. It´s surprising how rich and modern a lot of things can be in certain countries that in other areas appear to be very poor.Utila is a small little tropical island in the caribbean with about 13 little cayes off the coast of it. Some of these are small private islands or deserted ones. There was two that we could have rented the whole island for $100 per night between 6 people. Had a good enough crew organised and was mad to do this. Imagine our own island with a really cool house on it for $16 per person. And we could have taken up to 14 or even 20 people over. Unfortunately/fortunately we arrived in the middle of Carnival and the islands were booked up. So we had to make do with celebrating Carnvial!!
Most people come here to dive. We did a few other things but didnt bother diving in the end. Rented bikes to cycle around the island, snorkelled, ate good food and just chilled out. Was more of a holiday from the travelling and it was so so hot. Literally would be standing in a pool of my own sweat! And it was impossible to get away from the heat unless you hid in the ATM which is always AC!! But generally I hate AC so just stuck it out. You ever tried drying yourself right after the shower and possibly start on the top part and by the time you´ve dried down to your toes your wet again all over due to the heat. This is what it was like some of the days. Even the locals found it hot.
The culture here was quite random. There is a great mix of different cultures, colours and accents. Would loved to have talked to more of the locals to find out more about the background but some of them were so hard to understand! And that was the English speaking ones or maybe it was some form of Creole, not quite sure. There are white people, African - Caribbean possibly Garifuna but not sure if they live in this area or another island and Hispanics. Half the time I didnt know what language I was meant to be using chatting to the people but what was weird was some of them spoke English with what I considered a pirate accent. Literally exactly how youd imagine old pirates speaking. I could understand half of it but not whole conversations. And there was even some local blond kids that look totally european but are Honduran with this random pirate accent. Youd really need to hear it to understand!! Quite amazing.
When we arrived across to the island we found out we´d arrived in the middle of Carnival so it was non stop party. People dancing in the streets, parades, reggae music everywhere all up to our last night when we had to leave at 620am. The parade was quite interesting. This is when all the locals came out and we got to hear the cool talk in full!! Besides Carnival we just kinda chilled out. Did some snorkelling and one day rode bikes all around the island. Was so random at one point this big horse came gallopping behind us with a guy riding it with a massive machete in his hand. Would love to have gotten a photo but just missed it. There were great bars built on boardwalks which you could swim off of and another one built in a tree with all sorts of random decorations kinda like as if Gaudi the guy that designed all that stuff in Barcelona had built it!
Photos at Honduras
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