Skip to content
Search hostels
Picturesque street featuring a blue house and parked motorbikes in Utila, Honduras.

Central America

Backpacking Honduras

Honduras is known to backpackers for diving on Utila, one of the Bay Islands, and for the Maya site of Copán near the Guatemalan border.

Photo: Carlos Horacio Barahona C. / Pexels

Hostel destinations in Honduras

Picturesque street featuring a blue house and parked motorbikes in Utila, Honduras.

Utila

A Bay Islands dive island with a Caribbean-reef backpacker sceneClose-up of a colorful scarlet macaw in the lush Copan Ruinas jungle.

Copán Ruinas

A small town beside the Maya city of Copán, with macaws overhead

Hostels and backpacking in Honduras

Honduras sits between Guatemala, El Salvador and Nicaragua and has a Caribbean coast, mountainous interior and the Bay Islands offshore. Backpackers mostly come for two things: Utila, a popular place to learn to dive, and Copán Ruinas, a small colonial-style town beside the Maya archaeological site of Copán.

Hostels are concentrated in those two places and are generally friendly and small, with dive shops and tour desks closely tied to the accommodation on Utila. Elsewhere, such as in larger cities, travellers tend to stay briefly between buses. Read the latest FCDO travel advice before planning a route.