Blogs from Caye Caulker, Belize Barrier Reef, Belize, Central America Caribbean - page 27

The road to Belize was an an eventful one. I left Isla Mujeres with Marito and stayed a night in Playa Del Carmen and basically partied till 6am in Playa Del Carmen with Marito. Barely an hour later I took the 7am bus to Chetumal where I had to take another connecting bus across the border to Belize city. In short I arrived in Belize City at 6.45pm missing the last boat that I needed to reach Caye Caulker. Belize City was not a really safe looking town and I was really not interested in staying there for a night. As luck would have it, I managed to get a private boat that happened to leave at 7pm and arrived unscathed in Caye Caulker at 8.30pm. Checked into a small hotel for a night and the ... read more

From Orange Walk we headed towards the coast to spend some time on the Caribbean Island of Caye Caulker. For topping up the tans and chilling out on the beach and to dive the famous Blue Hole. We have heard of how good the diving is in Belize as it has the second largest Barrier reef in the world so have been looking forward to it. It was a great experience but very expensive about 100 quid for 3 dives! The first of the dives, the Blue Hole, A sinkhole in the middle of the reef 122m deep and 303m wide. We dove to about 55m the deepest we have ever dove before so we were a bit nervous. This has got to be the best dive we have ever done, it was amazing. Lots of ... read more

San Ignacio and Caye Caulker We left Guatemala early - at half past seven - and as a pleasant surprise the bus driver was grumpy for a reason we still don't know, but it didn't make our drive pleasant at all..... However we enjoyed our last views of Guatemala and crossed the border where the first real Belizean people that told us that we probably never wanted to leave Belize again, as it was just like paradise...:) In San Ignacio we noticed the obvious differences with Guatemala (colonial houses instead of the Maya huts) and the rasta people that obviously took life easy. Chilling in the park with their buddies, leaning back and just..taking it all in...what a life :) Flora was ready to buy another pair of flip flops because hers broke yet again and ... read more

Belize... official language; English... yey. No more ..gracias, por favor, hola, cervesa etc.. When we passed through the border, it was so exciting seeing all the signs in English.. and getting our Belize dollars, they even had old Lizzy on them. We went straight to Belize City and from there took a ferry to Caye Caulker.. one of the many Cayes in Belize.. and it was like paradise. A really chilled out island, with not many tourists, white sands, blue seas.. just beautiful. We spent our time chilling at ends of piers.. swimming, snorkeling.. and eating to local jerk chicken with rice n beans... We went snorkeling around the Caye, and were swimming with loads of Sting Rays, they were really close and was great to see (the guide was feeding them with sardines tho.. ). ... read more

Sorry that it has taken me so long to get out a new journal entry, we have been traveling A LOT over the last few days and i have been too tired to find a place to use the internet. So the night we spent in flores was really cool, found a place to have happy hour 2 beers for like 2 dollars we went to a club and did a little bit of dancing and people watching which was pretty enjoyable. but not as enjoyable as watching mike david get hit on by a dude!!! went to bed around 3am and had to wake up for the long bus ride back to belize city. After the four hour ride to belize city, we finally got out to the cayes -pronounced key- and found a place ... read more