Sandy Bay Travel Guide

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Things to Do  

Carambola Botanical Garden
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Beautiful Flowers

This is a small garden with some tropical trees like banana, teak etc... They also have 2 trails, a jungle trail which can be covered in 10 minutes, and a mountain trail which is a bit harder, but which gives great views over the shore (including Anthony's Key). Overall, I really recommend a visit if you are really enthousiastic about flowers and plants and an awesome view

Entrance is 3 US$ pp.

Updated Apr 4, 2004

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Sandy Bay beach
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Sandy Bay beach

This is the view to the East from our little bit of beach. Sandy bay is a protected little area on the North West part of the island and is where most of the sand is on the island.

Sandy Bay is not the best beach on the island but it is peaceful and the water is very calm most of the time.

Written Oct 10, 2003

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Hotels  

Anthony's Key Resort

 1 Review and 362 Opinions  AKR is a wonderful place to stay if you like to SCUBA dive and you like to relax. The resort is... 

Hotels  

Blue Butterfly Cottage: Little cottage on the Beach

Blue Butterfly Cottage: Little cottage on the Beach, Sandy Bay

 TinKan Says:  Well the house is now in a little different location. We moved it to the back of the lot to make room for the new house to be built in the front of the lot on the beach. The nice thing is that we can now have visitors that can stay in there own little cottage near the... 

Local Customs  

Fruit trees
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Fruit trees

You can find fruit trees like mango, papaya and many different types of banana trees around the area. We are lucky enough to have 10 to 15 banana trees and 2 mango as well as some cashew trees.

Updated Oct 11, 2003

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Home on stilts
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Home on stilts

Most homes are built above the ground to protect it from bugs, weather and stuff like that. It is nice to know that if the waves come in they will go under the house and not through it.

Written Oct 10, 2003

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Warnings and Dangers  

Security
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As with any place in the world there is always crime.
Remember to lock you door at night and to secure your money and credit cards in a safe place.

DO NOT leave things out in the open for the chance theif. Remember crime is everywhere and no place in the world can escape it.

Written Feb 28, 2004

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Favorites  

The Islands
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Sunset

Favorite thing: The climate is warm, usually in the '80s. The dress for the entire island is very casual.
Comfortable cool clothing, shorts, and lightweight pants are recommended.
Even in the evening at better restaurants, the dress remains casual.

There are mosquitoes and sand flies, but, if you use repellant, you should not be bothered.

Hurricanes are few and far between, and Honduras is generally not in the path of large storms.

Roatan enjoys tradewinds the majority of the year, which make the climate even more comfortable.

Written Feb 25, 2003

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