Things to do in Roatan

There is plenty to see and do above the water and away from Roatan’s popular beaches. Take the time to seek out the Island’s hidden corners, or some of its hidden luxuries. Spend the afternoon finding a deserted stretch of beach, the best seafood on the island, or a lazy tropical spa.

Road Trip

Rent a jeep or a truck and head out to the less-developed East End of Roatan. You’ll come across isolated beaches, small fishing villages dotting the coast and always some interesting characters. Be sure to stop at The View; a great restaurant just after French Harbour with vistas along the north shore. Getting from the airport in Roatan is easy with Roatan Transfers

Mangrove Tunnels

From Oak Ridge, a water taxi can take you through a series of tunnels, carved through the mangrove forests many centuries ago. You’ll pass by some of the oldest settlements in the Americas, built on stilts over the water. Be sure to stop off at the infamous “Hole in the Wall” for a drink, a seafood buffet, or to meet some of the Island’s quirky ex-pats.

Scuba Diving

Roatan has some world-class scuba diving right from the shore if not very short comfortable boat rides away. With great sea life where you can spot anything on the right day, it continues to draw divers from around the world. If you want to learn more about it then we recommend you take a look at https://roatan-diving.com for the best sites, shops and resorts that fully cater to your needs.

Fishing

please comment below if you know of good Roatan fishing opportunities. In the easy Camp Bay there are some resorts that cater to Tarpon anglers.

Botanical Gardens

Nature lovers and birdwatchers will enjoy a stroll around Carambola Gardens, located just above Anthony’s Key Resort. Learn about the many different tropical plants and flowers. Climb up to the lookout above the Gardens and you’ll see the whole jungle and reef laid out before you.

Canopy Tours

There are now a number of eco-adventures featuring zip lines through the jungle canopy. With safe, professional guides you can fly through trees filled with wildlife, orchids and exhilarating views. We recommend GumbaLimba Park, just outside West Bay (504 965-2135) or South Shore Canopy Tour ((504) 904.7855 or (504) 967.1381).

Horseback Riding

Best done in the cooler hours of the early morning or sunset, you can ride along the beaches, through the forests and along the ridges of West Bay. We recommend Keifito’s (504 978-4472).

Prices are reasonable and the horses are well cared for. You can catch a water taxi from West Bay Village to the Keifito’s stables and then set out.

Spas and Massages

There are some excellent massages available, and for therapeutic work we recommend Edgar Rodriguez (504 958-4673), a certified masseuse. For the full spa treatment, complete with poolside drinks and service, pedicures, manicures and speciality treatments we recommend a fantastic retreat in Sandy Bay called Baan Suerte (504 445-3059). The innovative “Mayan Hot Stone Massage” is a must. Go on, treat yourself.

Seaplane Adventures

We are sorry to say that Bay Island Airways is no more.

Other Places of Interest

There is an Iguana Farm near French Harbour, a sanctuary for these endangered Island creatures. Don’t miss feeding time! There is a Butterfly Garden near West End and you can learn more about the island and its people at the museum at Anthony’s Key Resort. Also, you can have fun with paintball.

Roatan is still largely undeveloped, and with a little effort, you can see the Caribbean as it was in the days before tourists and cruise ships. The real charm of Roatan Island is still hiding out there. Step off the beaten track and make some discoveries for yourself!

How to Make Money from Travel

 

How to make money while you travel

I was asked once, why a guy who had many followers on a Facebook group wasn’t making any money. I took a look at what products he was offering and the answer was what I had expected.
He had some very well-placed products on his page that had been linked from Facebook, products included ebooks and calendars and that should be fine right. Well, the problem is that people seldom click links in blogs and they are not likely to be interested at that very moment in buying that product. This is affiliate marketing and unless you get many thousands of visitors you won’t make any significant money, certainly nothing that is interesting compared to the time you spend.

Understand that strangers and even friends rarely share your content and stop dreaming of going viral.

There are two scenarios here I suggest.

1) To improve this traffic to those levels and get that traffic (not the best way) you are selling someone else’s products you are a middleman. This is never ideal and in today's world, it happens far less than it used to in the business world. Of course, it's great for the people selling the product not from the perspective of the products getting sold but what they get is link traffic which helps them in Google, its virtually free advertising.

2) (Recommended) The better approach to making money while travelling is to create your own product! That product is the written experience, your brand name (your name) and reviews or things you promote.

Keep hold of the rights to this product and build up your name and your brand. Have a long-term patient goal to rank organically for traffic. To do that learn or employ SEO on your blog or website. SEO at the heart is finding out what is popular content online (in your niche) and then targeting that search term for yourself with your own website. There is a lot to learn from SEO so honestly look at getting some affordable SEO help.

One place you can do this as they allow you to keep your content with their rights policy (you create your own you keep you promote) is https://landed.at a travel portal that was founded by a backpacker who knows travel.

Yes, they will benefit from your content but they have a very nice attitude of not being a corporation that get rights to your content and ultimately doesn’t give you any money back.

Trip Advisor- for some it's enough to get kudos and help people on these forums. But really in my opinion you should be better rewarded.

How much did Facebook end up giving you for your articles and group? Landed allows you to specify links to your own blogs and websites allow you to have your twitter updates appear and even allows you to place google ads which you put your name on the cheque!

But how is that making me money? Well they have a system of payment that is reflected in the site traffic that comes to your articles so it works all around. This is managed and arranged in a direct relationship with earnings that happen on pages that your articles appear on.

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You create a page, and they create advertising (not just affiliate marketing) depending on the article and the client's need. Any revenue generated from that page earns you up to 70% of the net profit. This is very beneficial and very targeted due to the manual method and non-spammy manner. Build your followers and friends through your profile which works very much like Facebook and you will increase advertisers’ interest in your pages. Imagine having British Airways looking at your stuff and your social network on landed and saying we need to be advertising there! Your name is on the bottom of that.

So go get yourself a membership at https://landed.at and join the group ‘make money through travel’ and go from there. Why blog anywhere else?

Scuba Diving in the Caribbean for the NON Diver

by Calvin Crane


With the whole world at my fingertips (YES I know I am lucky) I keep coming back to the Caribbean for my travel. So I have to ask myself why I never get to Truk Lagoon, the Philippines nor back to the Great Barrier Reef in Australia? And let’s not forget the Red Sea as well– a world class dive destination.

The Caribbean for Diving doesn’t get the best diving in the world badge. But you typically dive for an hour and a half of the day then some more time on the boat and your back – but where are you back to. Not to mention 2 days of travel for me to get to the barrier reef (the great one as we have one in the Caribbean ;) )

So the argument is that it’s not just your holiday its also your families. Unless you are all nuts about diving then chances are they are not going to let you dive every day as tours run on a schedule as well. But my argument is not just about what can you do outside of your dive time ! In fact I proffer that the diving is actually very very good. Some of the target places to dive are:

• Tobago – Amazing drift diving is just the start of the variety.
• Bahamas – A great place to dive if you are a shark enthusiast.
• Tobago Cays (St Vincent and the Grenadines)
• Mexico (Cozumel)
• Barbados
• St Lucia
• Belize (Check out the blue hole)
• Roatan (Amazingly cheap place to learn to dive)
• Bonaire (dive with a pick up truck)
• Grenada – with the regions biggest wreck dive the Biannca C

I was fortunate to be stood knee deep with a rum punch in hand on one of Antigua’s best beaches and was chatting to a chap from LA. It was an eleven hour trek to Antigua – so it’s quicker to get there from the U.K. for some visitors but generally the North Americans (that includes you Canucks) can get to a range of islands easily. This is also defining the season to some extent as it gets cold up there the winter migration begins ! It happens to be outside of Hurricane season as well as that is tailing off after November. All the boats come out of the dry docks refurbished for the season to come.

If your not a diver already then you won’t have been spoilt and the amazing 30ft visibility in ‘winter’ will make you feel like you’re diving in an aquarium ! With the chance to see some amazing species of fishes like parrot fish, moray eels to turtles is really a special time.

If you are new to diving then why not visit Caribbean Diving and see their guide to learning to dive with PADI. It really is as easy as sinking and breathing..You will never be asked or tasked to do something you don’t feel comfortable doing.

It really is step at a time. Starting off with theory and shallow work in the pool or confined water (like a swimming pool).

If I have something to say about learning to dive is that I wished I had done it earlier !

Calvin Crane is a PADI divemaster who knows a lot about the Caribbean in general and loves nothing more than ‘harassing’ the underwater zoo.

Cambridge Advertising Online | Digital Marketing

If you run or manage a Cambridge based business chances are you need online advertising and digital marketing. At cambs.eu we have a price point that is attractive for more modest businesses but gives you great online visibility through online search and other touch-points such as within social discussions.

Fire up your SEO to get value traffic that gives the most over and over 24/7.

Tune down or up your social activity to an optimum level. Yes you can have too much social media going on.

Organic Search

Organic search (natural Google search results (not the ‘Ad’ results at very top and bottom of the page)) is the natural non paid for advertising that is the holly grail. We can help you achieve the best scenario for this FREE TRAFFIC. Do spend some money on SEO it keeps repaying you vs the Social Media Tap that stops giving the minute you stop investing.

Paid Search or PPC

If Social Media is a tap, that is also true of PPC or pay per click (‘Ad’ placements in Google results). Depending on your business this might be a good idea in some circumstances. However you need to be careful that you don’t build a dependency on them. They can be useful for new businesses to get fast customers. Make sure you do this alongside SEO and offsite SEO.


Pay Per Click advertising is really critical on setup so that you don’t pay for clicks in Cambridge Massachusetts results as an example. Using negative words and geographic targeting is just the start. Again the tap is only good while your balance is not zero. It also doesn’t go towards constructing anything (It doesn’t help your natural organic position). If you don’t convert from the clicks it’s wasted money.

Content Marketing

A common theme that does have basis in improving search results is content marketing. This consists of articles or white papers pdf’s etc that exist online in some location mostly other than your own site or blog. Blogging is a kind of content marketing too. The articles are or should be about some aspect of the business and link to your website or deeper. It is time consuming to get decent articles written and might be best to write from internal resources. It can be hard to find good neighbourhoods (websites) to host your content it’s time consuming. This is why business often choose to collaborate with an agency to get the hard part done regardless of who creates the articles.

SMM Social Media Marketing

Social Media – Often this is something you might consider to keep in house but take an initial guide to work out how often and how to tweet. Make sure you keep it to your business theme and engage with care. Consult with us for good practise given your kind of business.

Traditional Marketing

If you are an actual traditional marketing company with a focus on Cambridge then call us to advertise here. After all people are looking for your services here too. From leaflet drops and newspaper advertising traditional marketing is of interest to readers here. For our readers needing this service we don’t directly offer that. Please see the recommended resources below.

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KN95 Coronavirus Masks To Play Big Part | Coming out of lockdown

Coronavirus lockdown

After the various places come off of lockdown into a state of controlled separation, masks will perform a vital role. Social distancing will be needed as the coronavirus will still be around albeit in a less rampant amount we want to avoid the contagion previously causing another lockdown.

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Coronavirus arrives in the west

The biggest lockdown was at the origin in Wuhan. They also seemed miraculously as of now Friday, 17 April 2020 to have not spread it all across China. My eyes will be looking to see what happens as Wuhan last week started to re-open. The next hardest lockdown was in northern Italy. They got a particularly bad fast spread of Covid 19. A massive lockdown ensued and now there are controlled experiments you might say in releasing the lockdown. Supermarkets are outlets and have controlled distancing measures in place. Though once inside there you see examples of arrogance where some deniers are still fighting the rules. Staff members are high at risk in these establishments and yet usually wear no protective gear. One of the many puzzling elements of this pandemic.
Spain went into lockdown after a spiralling daily death toll took their ICU units to the brink and their wonderful staff members at high risk.

In the UK we had a later than necessary(?) lockdown but we seem to have flattened the curve in time to stop the ICU from being beyond capacity though many NHS staff have reported horrid long crippling hours of non-stop work.

Mask use 

The use of masks is starting to happen in the West through sheer will over style. We don't appreciate the look and surrender to the virus. Many of us myself included wanted to catch it beat it and move on. We were arrogant and uninformed. Now seeing how much of a brute this is we want to beat it. Cultural acceptance of masks is happening I estimate 40% of people in the supermarket were wearing masks of varying styles. Better than most the N95 or KN95 blocks 95% of the tiniest of particles. and covers the nose. The eyes are still an area of concern. Masks also prevent touching the mouth and nose. They are fine to breathe through for an hour at a time. Masks are disposable but use common sense and the re-use can be made. Surgical-style masks must also help but they cannot block the same level of particles. N95 and KN95 are the same specification just the KN95 is the number given to those coming from China manufacturers. Often these have CE certification. You should check for that.

It is my hope that the use of masks can help us get back to being a working nation again and minimise the extent to lockdown. In the UK yesterday another minimum 3 weeks inside has been announced by the deputised leaded Dominic Raab.

Getting masks is easy but delivery is 10 days roughly (if you want a normal price) Anyone stocking in the UK is taking full advantage by tripling the price. They should cost no more than 3 pounds per mask. A mask offering say 5 uses at most. If you can bear the delivery time then order now and lock in a better price. When we start to come out you may need them and then they might be in short supply. 

Places to go backpacking

Embarking on a backpacking journey is akin to opening a treasure chest of experiences, unveiling the world's hidden gems, one step at a time. The allure of this adventure lies not just in the thrill of exploration, but in the profound connection it fosters with nature, culture, and one's inner self.

Picture this: Wearing your trusty backpack, you'll venture into remote landscapes, traversing rugged terrains that defy the comforts of civilization. It's a baptism into simplicity, a symphony of self-reliance where each step is a reminder of the untamed wilderness that lies in wait. The earth beneath your boots becomes your compass, and the rustling leaves your lullaby.

In your nomadic odyssey, you'll discover the beauty of solitude. Far from the madding crowd, the cacophony of everyday life recedes, replaced by the harmonious hum of nature's rhythms. The tranquility is like an elixir, soothing the mind and invigorating the spirit. Amidst towering trees, beneath expansive skies, you'll find a sanctuary of silence.

Backpacking isn't just a journey outward; it's a journey inward. Stripped of excess baggage, you'll unearth your inner reserves of resilience and adaptability. Every challenge is an opportunity, every obstacle a lesson. As you navigate the unknown, you'll redefine your limits and forge a profound connection with your core self.

Moreover, backpacking is a cultural immersion like no other. Each encounter with local communities reveals a tapestry of traditions, stories, and cuisines that paint the world in vibrant hues. Breaking bread with strangers becomes a gateway to empathy and understanding, bridging cultural chasms one meal at a time.

Ultimately, the call to backpacking transcends mere wanderlust; it's a beckoning to reconnect with the essence of life itself. As you step into this world of wonder, know that you are not just an observer but a participant in an epic narrative where the chapters unfold beneath your very feet. Embrace the journey, for it's not just a physical expedition; it's an odyssey of the soul, an awakening to the boundless beauty that our planet holds.

Lets discuss some places that I personally recommend and why.

1) Australia. If its not on the East coast North coast South coast or West coast its to the centre of the biggest island in the world to visit Ayers Rock. I didn’t make Ayers rock myself as I was under too much budget pressure and yes its amazing but it felt as far away as New Zealand. Australia though has cities with dynamic nightlife for the young great wines for the old some of the most fun hostels you are ever likely to find and surf galore. This is what keeps making it the go to destination for many a Backpacker. Its also got massive kudos and you can’t call yourself a backpacker if you haven’t been!

2) Japan. The first myth is that its expensive – not so and the youth hostels or just plain hostels (house some oldies like me now) in style with private rooms and sturdy lockers its all very Japan works every time. Ride across the swathes unique and interesting countryside in the Shinkanson at break neck speed while the crew serve up service with a bow. The karaoke bars are amazing fun. Check out the natural north at anytime of year but in winter you had better go for the powder. Its like no other on earth. Sapporo is the main city in the north. Tokyo will be your gateway and it’s a neon lit treasure trove. You see the greatest thing about Japan is that something every half an hour will amaze you.

3) France. Inter-railing brings many through France often from Spain up from Barcelona they hit Montpellier for its cultural student feel with fun summer nights out or Marseille for its industrial feel old port and calenques (small pristine beaches with the bluest water in the med). Nice is strangely the logical spot most hit and good for day trips into Montpelier. The beach is pebbly but it has such a hub of backpackers passing through you will get hung up in the courtyards of your hostel swapping travel stories then heading down to the pebbles to try it on with that Danish blonde.