First and foremost, it is hot. So ridiculously hot that two seconds after you leave the blessedly air-conditioned hotel room, you are frying. But after you get over the fact that it is incredibly hot, Belize is beautiful and interesting. After Orange Walk, which Lizzie talks about in her post, we hopped on a water taxi, which is basically a smallish boat that is rather like a clown car (I still can't believe all the people that were waiting on the dock fit inside). About an hour later, we had arrived at Caye Caulker - pronounced 'key', incidentally - and went to find a room to stay in. We hit up one place that was literally on the beach (although most of the hostels here are), but the room that the housekeeper showed us was rather
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