Hi there everyone, This is a very short entry since just like the rest of Belize, the internet is really expensive. So, we are here in Placencia and it is a really beautiful place. Everyone in Belize speaks English and they are the friendliest people we have ever met. Everyone says hi when you walk down the street (which is said to be the narrowest street in the world) and they have really great accents. The sand here looks like unrefined sugar and the water is a beautiful turquoise. We feel like we are on vacation from the rest of our [View Full Entry]

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"Hey mahn! Ya mahn." This is the local conversation here in Placencia. Thats right, there's really nothing to talk about. It's so chill, there's no need to ask, "What's up?" because the answer would be the same every time...nothin much, just chillin. After jumping through some hoops to get here (an overnight stay in the dirtiest city ever, Puerto Barrios, Guatemala, then an hour boat ride, and then a two-hour local bus ride)--we're finally here. And it was all so worth it. After finding a nice hotel, right off "The Sidewalk" and a foot away from the ocean. "The Sidewalk" is [View Full Entry]

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Hi all I´ve had a load of messages since last time. Thanks for all the good wishes = it´s great to hear from you all. I left the jaguar sanctuary and headed for my final destination in Belize. It was a short bus ride to the small town of Independence. From there, I boarded the Hokey Pokey Water Taxi (real name) for the 15 minute hop to Placencia. The village of Placencia is on a peninsula (try saying that after a few beers) that sticks out of the southern end of Belize´s Caribbean coastline. It apparently appears in the Guiness Book [View Full Entry]

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Needing a rest and needing to cross a border to get a new 90 day tourist stamp we deside to go to belize for a week on the beach. Just our luck it starts raining as we wake up on our first day off but after about 6 changes in our plans a boat going to livingston turns up and the rain dies down so we jump in for a ralaxing 2 hour trip up the river. Livingston is a great little garifuna town and as we can never seem to go anywhere without seing someone we know we bump into [View Full Entry]

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Well after a few days of london weather the sun has decided to show its face in this part of the world and how the place I am staying in looks so much better when the sun is out. I have decided to wait on here and hang round the beach until the end of the week when my boat leaves. I spend the day drinking the local rum on the beach with the locals and having a few funny cigarettes to pass the time. The palm trees make a welcome change here and provide some welcome relief from the sun [View Full Entry]

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The weather is still really bad over here and there seems to be a cold front thourha few countries in the central american area or certainly on the carribean,atlantic coast side at present according to the locals. Find out about the boat schedules from here or just further down the road in another town called 'Punta Gorda' in Southern Belize and it was not too good news....there is not one until the end of the week on thursday or friday from here in Placencia which will cost me about fifty US dollars to reach the northern coats of Honduras or about [View Full Entry]

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Up really early again because the bus for the Belizean Southern border leaves at 7am and as there is a hell of a lot of rain at present this trip will take a while because a lot of the roads are unpaved and i estimate around another 5-6 hours in another splendidly comfortable old american school bus. My guide book tells me there are 2-3 boats that leave a week from this Belizean beach village and when I arrive at the Northern Honduras border I can then head inland to San Pedro Sula and see some Mayan Ruins in a place [View Full Entry]

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We headed ever south after Corker and stayed in another beach place called Placencia, the beach here was gorgeous, the stereotypical Caribbean postcard, swaying palms, blue ocean, golden sands. Doesn’t beat Piccadilly gardens on a sunny day though!! We did nothing but chill out and I got to watch Utd v Chelsea so more than happy apart from the result that is. That was it on our tour of Belize, short and sweet, which it needed to be as very expensive. Enjoyed the place and culture as all very different and the language of Garifuna, which is a mixture of English, [View Full Entry]

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Placencia - Omar's Place Saturday morning we were up bright and early. Broke down camp (and wasn't at all sad to be rid of the smallest, leakiest tent ever) and packed everything onto the boat. We had spent the evening drinking rum punch and watching the moon rise. So great. We had breakfast on the boat and set off for our first snorkel spot out on the reef. It was quite beautiful - shallow patchy reef formations teeming with fish. I could have stayed there all day. Lunch was on the boat - fruit and bologna sandwiches. Then we struggled to [View Full Entry]

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