Omega Tours Lodge

Omega Tours Lodge is a great place to stay when visiting La Ceiba, Honduras. The food is great, the staff is friendly, the grounds are beautiful, and the adventure tours are popular. See collared aracaris and motmots while you're there. Don't recommend them for wildlife tours, though - they don't leave early enough in the morning.

The entrance to the Omega Tours lodge. It's about a 20-minute drive up the dirt road that parallels the El Cangrejal river.

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The main table at Omega Tours lodge. Great for eating breakfast early in the morning. They have plenty of other tables behind me.

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The pool at Omega Tours lodge. No chemicals or filtration on this thing. When it starts to get algae, they drain the otherwise pure water into the river. Then they fill it up again. It lasts about 5 days. Sometimes frogs have a party in the newly filled pool - we were swimming with hundreds of tadpoles 2 days before they drained it.

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A collared aracari (a type of toucan) rests in a cecropia tree. A family of these guys lived around the lodge. They made an interesting call, one that resembled a stick moving quickly against a series of evenly-spaced ridges.

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A collared aracari (a type of toucan) hangs out in an unknown tree. This was the typical viewing distance. You might not know they were there unless you saw them fly into the tree in the first place. Luckily they did a lot of flying.\n\nA family of these guys lived around the lodge. They made an interesting call, one that resembled a stick moving quickly against a series of evenly-spaced ridges.

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A collared aracari (a type of toucan) rests in a cecropia tree. A family of these guys lived around the lodge. They made an interesting call, one that resembled a stick moving quickly against a series of evenly-spaced ridges.

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A collared aracari peeks out of its nest in a tree hollow.

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A collared aracari takes flight from its nest in a tree hollow.

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A collared aracari (a type of toucan) rests in a cecropia tree. Some of these birds had notches on their beaks and some didn't.

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An unknown bird that was frequently seen and heard around the Omega Tours lodge. Email me if you know what type of bird this is.

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One of a pair of motmots that had their den very close to our lodge room. It was amazing to walk out of the room on the first day and see this beautiful bird sitting on a tree branch so close.

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One of a pair of motmots that had their den very close to our lodge room. It was amazing to walk out of the room on the first day and see this beautiful bird sitting on a tree branch so close.

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An orchid stretches several feet away from its host plant on a long, strange stem that just shot out to the side.

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A beautiful white hibiscus. These prolific flowers came in many different colors, but I don't remember seeing white too often.

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There's only one hiking trail directly emanating from Omega Tours lodge. It is quite steep, winding its way up and around a citrus orchard. Occasionally the trail ducks out of a clearing and back into the jungle - through a tunnel in the foliage!

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What a site to see this large tree festooned with thousands of large, yellow flowers.

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This strange fruit/nut/pod can be used as makeup. Crack it open and crush the inner seed to produce a nice red powder for your cheeks. Apparently the Mayans used to do this.

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I assumed that these 2 birds were a male/female couple. Only saw them once. If you know what kind they are, please email me.

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I only saw this unknown bird one time. If you know what kind of bird he is, please email me.

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I only saw this unknown bird one time. If you know what kind of bird he is, please email me.

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These smaller black birds were frequent visitors to the Omega Tours grounds. Their call resembled that of an oriole. Plain to look at, but nice to listen to.

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What a relaxing morning. On the last day I didn't want to do anything but sit around. I sat in a hammock with my camera and waited for something interesting to appear. One of the many creatures to show themselves was this tiny lizard, probably 3 inches long at best.

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A golden-fronted woodpecker hangs out in one of the treetops.

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A golden-fronted woodpecker hangs out in a tree.

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The oropendula is common in Central and South America. Its name comes from 2 Spansih words: oro = gold (for its gold tail), and pendula = pendulum (for its large nests that it builds in colonies dangling from tree limbs). We saw some nests near the beach, but only one time.\n\nTheir call is one of the most amazing. It sounds like metalic gurgles, and it's actually two voices at the same time. One voice is gurgling up and the other is gurgling down.

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The oropendula is common in Central and South America. Its name comes from 2 Spansih words: oro = gold (for its gold tail), and pendula = pendulum (for its large nests that it builds in colonies dangling from tree limbs). We saw some nests near the beach, but only one time.\n\nTheir call is one of the most amazing. It sounds like metalic gurgles, and it's actually two voices at the same time. One voice is gurgling up and the other is gurgling down.

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The oropendula is common in Central and South America. Its name comes from 2 Spansih words: oro = gold (for its gold tail), and pendula = pendulum (for its large nests that it builds in colonies dangling from tree limbs). We saw some nests near the beach, but only one time.\n\nTheir call is one of the most amazing. It sounds like metalic gurgles, and it's actually two voices at the same time. One voice is gurgling up and the other is gurgling down.

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The oropendula is common in Central and South America. Its name comes from 2 Spansih words: oro = gold (for its gold tail), and pendula = pendulum (for its large nests that it builds in colonies dangling from tree limbs). We saw some nests near the beach, but only one time.\n\nTheir call is one of the most amazing. It sounds like metalic gurgles, and it's actually two voices at the same time. One voice is gurgling up and the other is gurgling down.

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Two snakes invaded the Omega Tours grounds while we were there. The first one I didn't see. This was the second one - beautiful bright green with golden eyes and a brilliantly blue forked-tongue. The guides said it wasn't poisonous. Whew!

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Two snakes invaded the Omega Tours grounds while we were there. The first one I didn't see. This was the second one - beautiful bright green with golden eyes and a brilliantly blue forked-tongue. The guides said it wasn't poisonous. Whew!

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Two snakes invaded the Omega Tours grounds while we were there. The first one I didn't see. This was the second one - beautiful bright green with golden eyes and a brilliantly blue forked-tongue. The guides said it wasn't poisonous. Whew!

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Two snakes invaded the Omega Tours grounds while we were there. The first one I didn't see. This was the second one - beautiful bright green with golden eyes and a brilliantly blue forked-tongue. The guides said it wasn't poisonous. Whew!

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Two snakes invaded the Omega Tours grounds while we were there. The first one I didn't see. This was the second one - beautiful bright green with golden eyes and a brilliantly blue forked-tongue. The guides said it wasn't poisonous. Whew!

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Two snakes invaded the Omega Tours grounds while we were there. The first one I didn't see. This was the second one - beautiful bright green with golden eyes and a brilliantly blue forked-tongue. The guides said it wasn't poisonous. Whew!\n\nHere he is slithering on the cement flooring near the large picnic table. We didn't get to see it, but the guides said that the snakes have a real hard time getting any traction on that type of surface.

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Looking across the grounds and across El Cangrejal river at the view of Pico Bonito National Park from the steep Omega Tours local orchard trail.

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I only saw this unknown bird one time. If you know what kind of bird he is, please email me.

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We saw this little guy about once a day on the Omega Tours grounds, usually in the morning.

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We saw this little guy about once a day on the Omega Tours grounds, usually in the morning.

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We saw this little guy about once a day on the Omega Tours grounds, usually in the morning.

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A spider web connects some cactus segments.

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We saw this guy about once every other day at the Omega Tours grounds.

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We saw this guy about once every other day at the Omega Tours grounds.

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We saw this guy about once every other day at the Omega Tours grounds.

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What a relaxing morning. On the last day I didn't want to do anything but sit around. I sat in a hammock with my camera and waited for something interesting to appear. One of the many creatures to show themselves was this large baselisk lizard.\n\nThese guys are also known as Jesus Christ lizards because the young ones can actually walk (run, really) on water as an escape mechanism. On land they run the same way - on their hind legs.

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What a relaxing morning. On the last day I didn't want to do anything but sit around. I sat in a hammock with my camera and waited for something interesting to appear. One of the many creatures to show themselves was this large baselisk lizard.\n\nThese guys are also known as Jesus Christ lizards because the young ones can actually walk (run, really) on water as an escape mechanism. On land they run the same way - on their hind legs.

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What a relaxing morning. On the last day I didn't want to do anything but sit around. I sat in a hammock with my camera and waited for something interesting to appear. One of the many creatures to show themselves was this hummingbird. He hung out in the same area almost all day. Mostly he rested on this twig fairly low to the ground. He'd occasionally jut off to any number of flowers in the immediate vicinity.

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What a relaxing morning. On the last day I didn't want to do anything but sit around. I sat in a hammock with my camera and waited for something interesting to appear. One of the many creatures to show themselves was this hummingbird. He hung out in the same area almost all day. Mostly he rested on a twig fairly low to the ground. He'd occasionally jut off to any number of flowers in the immediate vicinity.

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What a relaxing morning. On the last day I didn't want to do anything but sit around. I sat in a hammock with my camera and waited for something interesting to appear. One of the many creatures to show themselves was this hummingbird. He hung out in the same area almost all day. Mostly he rested on a twig fairly low to the ground. He'd occasionally jut off to any number of flowers in the immediate vicinity.

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I only saw this unknown bird one time. If you know what kind of bird he is, please email me.

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I only saw this unknown bird one time. If you know what kind of bird he is, please email me.

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This dazzlingly blue dragonfly stayed long enough for me to aim and fire my camera. It had purple iridescent wings.

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These were some of the strangest flowers I'd ever seen, and they were growing right there at the entrance to Omega Tours lodge. Their cattail-honeycomb-like top felt like rubber. The pockets faced up to catch raindrops. Touch it ever so slightly and your finger is blessed with a sweet ginger smell.

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These were some of the strangest flowers I'd ever seen, and they were growing right there at the entrance to Omega Tours lodge. Their cattail-honeycomb-like top felt like rubber. The pockets faced up to catch raindrops. Touch it ever so slightly and your finger is blessed with a sweet ginger smell.

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Inside our beautiful Bamboo Room at Omega Tours Lodge. Windows had only screens, no glass. Very spacious and reasonably comfortable.

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Inside our beautiful Bamboo Room at Omega Tours Lodge. Windows had only screens, no glass. Very spacious and reasonably comfortable.

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Inside our beautiful Bamboo Room at Omega Tours Lodge, which actually had one queen size bed on both floors. The staircase was so steep they had to carve notches into the steps so that your feet would have room. I never realized that I always started to climb/descend stairs with my right foot until I kept starting out wrong on these stairs.

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Hard to get a decent picture, but the outdoor shower was a favorite with all the guests. Our room had its own extremely spacious shower, but it was still fun to use the community one outside. Don't worry, it's surrounded by that stone wall and has a door you can latch.

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Inside our beautiful Bamboo Room at Omega Tours Lodge. Windows had only screens, no glass. Very spacious and reasonably comfortable.

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Inside our beautiful Bamboo Room at Omega Tours Lodge. Windows had only screens, no glass. Very spacious and reasonably comfortable.

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We saw 2 iguanas on the Omega Tours grounds, but I couldn't get my camera out fast enough. The lodge had one caged up, and it rarely showed itself.

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The lush grounds of Omega Tours Lodge. Green everywhere you look.

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