Blogs from Caye Caulker, Belize Barrier Reef, Belize, Central America Caribbean - page 17

Tim version: * Headed to Caye Caulker via Belize City, a hole of a place, and loved both the journey out to and Caye Caulker Itself. * Got to "swim with the sharks" and the Rays, enojoyed waaay too much local rum, made some good friends, got sunburnt, got covered in sandfly bites, and thoroughly enjoyed it all! The version thats sitting in a canoe, drifting in peace in warm carribean waters, just taking in the tropical island views: Caye Caulker. The usual destination in Belize along with Ambergris, and for good reason! I bussed from San Ignacio after a morning reading the Lonely Planet guide to Mexico and enjoying one of the biggest fruit platters ever, to Belize City, and met a very interesting guy on the bus who had just bought a puppy for ... read more

As we get off the H2o taxi and walk along the jetty, there is a mosaic sign greeting us. "Welcome to Caye Caulker, GO SLOW!" And this was the attitude toward life on the Is, chill out, relax, have a good time and go slow man!I look along the beach and i see palm trees, waterfront bars and reef, i think i'm going to enjoy C.C. We had originally planned to stay in Belize city but had been told it was shitty (& it was!) and to go straight to C.C. So we tagged along with most off the bus onto the h20 taxi to an Island of the coast of Belize, C.C.We planned to stay 2 days and ended up staying 5, this place was great. All sand streets, no cars, golf cart taxi's, walking ... read more

So, we went to Tikal yesterday and the day before. Pretty amazing spot. A huge mayan ruins sight with temples and the whole shabang. We camped there overnight, with our new travel group - Stina (Norway), Andrew (Australia), Josh (Denver) and Scotty (Australia). We're all very impressed we've been able to travel for so long together and not bite each others heads off. We went from Lanquin to Tikal and now here together, however sadly Josh had to leave today so the dynamic is a bit off. In any case, we woke up early the next morning in Tikal (5:30) to make it to the top of a temple for sunrise, however we were disappointed once realizing that it was overcast so there was no sunrise to be seen. However it was still neat to hear ... read more

Hallo Leute. Ich weiss zwar nicht mit was ich meine zeit vertreibe, aber ich weiss das es ziemlich viel zeit in anspruch nimmt. So viel zeit und aufmerksamkeit das ich gar keinen weg finde um mich vor den PC zu setzen. Schaut euch doch einfach die Fotos an, dann versteht ihr mich. 1love ... read more

So Belize was a short but sweet trip, with us only spending about 5 days there. We travelled from Flores in Guatemala, a trip that took us a long time, cramped in another bus, with yet another annoyingly difficult border crossing. This time after asking at least 3 sets of people if we needed any money to cross and being told no each time we tried to cross the border with no money. Only for us to find out that we did need money and then they refused to let Luke cross (they had already stamped my passport so technically I could leave.) After lots of arguing and begging, they finally let us cross, taking some random US dollar noted we managed to find. So we headed straight for Belize city, and hopped onto the Caye ... read more