I am really pumped to tell you guys about this experience. This was the most enjoyable tour yet. Just so you all know, Omega tours does an absolutely phenomenal job, not only with their guides but their up to date equipment and awesome eco lodge. Today I got a friendly cab driver named Don Melvin to drive me a few …
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Flo’s Atlántida Adventures: Getting lost in Lancetilla
After my morning adventures in Punta Izopo, I met up with some friends who drove me to Lancetilla, one of the largest botanical gardens in the Americas. It is located a few kilometres away from a quaint but busy little beach town called Tela. Unfortunately we went right before it was closed, which I would not recommend doing cause I …
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Flo’s Atlantida Adventures: Kayaking through Punta Izopo
Punta Izopo is a national park, Garifuna tours offers excursions where you can kayak around the mangroves looking for howler monkeys, alligators, tons of different types of birds, crabs and much more. The lagoons are very calm and so you don’t need to be a kayak expert by any means, which worked out well because I definitely am not. This …
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Flo’s Atlántida Adventures: Felipe’s Farm
Hey everyone, I wanted to write my post about a good friend of mine. His name is Felipe and he is a tour guide, a desk clerk at a cool hostel in town an agroforestry farmer and an all around cool guy. This is a farm that has been in his family for more than 20 years and I was absolutely ecstatic …
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Flo’s Atlantida Adventures: Discovering Cayos Cochinos
Hey guys! Get ready for one of my most exciting outings: the famous Cayos Cochinos. If you have no idea what I’m talking about here’s a bit of a background; it’s part of the second largest coral reef in the world; the Mesoamerican reef. It consists of two main islands and 13 cays. So with high hopes for the afternoon I …
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Flo’s Atlántida Adventures: Cooking with Ana
It all started the night before where I had some friends take me to a local grocery store with the list of ingredients to make the perfect baleadas and pastelitos. We grabbed ingredients like flour, shortening, and queso. Once we had everything we set it all aside to grab for our class at 9am. The next morning I had a …
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Flo’s Atlantida Adventures
Before I get into all of the exciting travelling I’ll be doing throughout this assignment I thought I would introduce myself. I am a 19 year old world traveler disguised as a student at the University of Ottawa from Ottawa, Canada and am about to spend the next 10 weeks living in La Ceiba. Feel free to keep up with …
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