Orange Walk

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After San Ignacio we went to Orange walk in the north of Belize. This was recommended as a great adventure. It wasn’t! Another boat journey through lots of mangroves and small estuary’s but this time on a speed boat, fairly exciting and then we pulled up outside more Mayan ruins Lamanai. The main difference with these is that they are the oldest ruins in the Mayan empire and they also outlasted every other settlement, they were continuously populated for nearly 3000 years! Interesting site as it was literally in the middle of nowhere and the civalisation would have been very secluded. The things that spoilt it was that same day a cruise ship pulled into Belize and there must have been about 2 hundred tourists walking around the site with us which made it not very special at all.

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