Dicen que la vida es como un libro, el que no viaja tan solo lee la primera pagina, asi que en las ultimas semanas he realizado algunas escapadas fuera del orfanato aprovechando el fin de semana para conocer un poco mas este pais fantastico. La primera visita ha sido a Belize, he tenido que salir de Guatemala tres dias a fin de renovar el visado . En este pequeño pais he aprovechado para hacer senderismo, pues tiene una naturaleza ideal para esta practica , pude visitar algunas cuevas impresionantes , que son autenticos museos en los que aun se conservan restos [View Full Entry]

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I don't know what I was expecting of mainlaind Belize, but certainly not what I got. It's the only english speaking country in central America, which is surprising enough, but then they speak it with an impossibly strong caribbean accent, are a mix of all races and colours and most of them look like cowboys from the Wild West or dudes straight out of Harlem. On top of that there are the Mennonite people (http://www.unhcr.org/refworld/docid/49749d532.html) who look like cousins of the Amish in NA. Belize city is a bit edgy, and we came across a parade celebrating one of the many [View Full Entry]

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When we last left off, Wes and I were taking a day off so that he could recover from too much white man in the sun time. We did this by going on a night snorkeling adventure at the barrier reef just off of Caye Caulker. As luck would have it, the group of 4 that booked with us were nowhere to be found, and it was just Wes and I and our guide. We took a tiny boat out about 10 minutes, and anchored at a buoy just inside of the breakers. Here we got our warnings: watch out for [View Full Entry]

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After a few days in Caye Caulker (and the Blue Hole dive Ally loved so much) we rented a car to head to the far west of Belize close to the Guatemala border. We did it by car rather than the local "chicken bus" (so called because locals take their chickens with them sometimes) because we are soft. Actually, we had to make it back to Caye Caulker to meet up with a saling boat to head south down to coast towards Guatamela and Honduras and time was a factor. Driving in Belize is interesting. They drive on the right hand [View Full Entry]

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We spent four days in the Cayo District of Belize in the town of San Ignacio. From San Ignacio we visited two Mayan ruin sites, Xunantnich and Cahal Pech, and Chuck went on a cave tour of Actun Tunichil Muknal. Actun Tunichil Muknal is about 12 miles and 45 minutes driving time from San Ignacio. Tours are advertised throughout town and they depart daily from multiple locations. After the ride from town, which crossed two rivers, you then cross three more on foot. Next is a 35 minute walk through the jungle to the mouth of the cave, which also [View Full Entry]

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Maria, Sarah and I looked for accommodation, and what we found was ok for one night, but it reminded me of a rat hole! Placencia was not a place we wanted to stick around so we headed for the town of San Ignacio on the Guatemalan border. We drove through Belize seeing the lush green countryside as well as the dodgy looking towns of Belmopan, Dangriga. We rode the chicken bus from one place to the other and everywhere we looked we could see poverty unfortunately. We arrived at San Ignacio by mid day, a little but busy town filled with [View Full Entry]

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We arrived to the border between El Peten, Guatemala and Cayo, Belize at about 4pm on Tuesday the 27th of January. We should have arrived earlier, but sometimes life gets in the way of plans. We exited out of Guatemala, paid to have our van fumigated for a cost of under $10 USD and proceeded to the Belizean immigration and customs. Immigration was simple. Customs took a bit more time since the customs official needed to see all of our papers, fill out all of his, and inspect our vehicle before allowing us to enter the country. After going through immigration [View Full Entry]

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Hey Hey Hey Soo Playa Del Carmen was pretty cool. I liked it better than Cancun becasue it is less populated and touristy and bulit up with starbucks and things. So we went and layed on the beach even though it was cloudy it is just so beautiful here we wanted to take it all in. Then we went and had Pina Coladas, they were really expenive more than it costs for a day to eat but we didn't know until it was too later and it wasn't even good but oh well. The bars here are really cool with swings [View Full Entry]

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Tim version: * Headed out of Flores, out of Guatemala, and into Belize - Guatemalan border officials tried to rip me off some money, didn't work, and walking into Belize I felt so happy to be out of Guatemala! * Stayed with a couchsurfer in San Ignacio and had an incredible couple of days chilling with them and a few other couchsurfers from Germany, tubing and enjoying the local town and market. The version that loves this Belizean music: Heading out of Flores still feeling sick I didn't rush it. Instead I splashed out on a good breakfast and didn't leave [View Full Entry]

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Leaving Caye Caulker on the 25th was somewhat entertaining. Sam, Michael´s friend had had somewhat a liquid lunch and couldn´t even walk, always good when you have to get on a boat. Think Michael was really embarrassed and came up with some excuse that she was really home sick, where in fairness he should have just said that she was trollied and would apolagise later!! There was only one breast feeding woman on the ferry this time, and the crossing seemed quicker. Sam woke up the baby and it screamed at her the entire crossing, didn´t stop her trying to hold [View Full Entry]

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