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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Good afternoon all After a restful time on the island of Caye Caulker, it was time to see some locations in the rest of Belize. My next stop was Belmopan, the country's capital. Belmopan owes its existence to a hurricane. One feature of this coastline is that it has been constantly ravaged over the years by hurricanes with seemingly harmless names like Wilma, Iris, Stan, Mitch and my favourite, Hattie. (Back in Mexico, when someone asked me if I had heard what Wilma had done out in Cancun, I thought I'd missed out on a particurlarly exotic episode of The Flintstones. [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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What we did find in Dangriga is superb banana cake, well worth the trip there just for that! Okay maybe a slight exaggeration. But plenty of this banana cake was pretty much all that sustained us today. Carlos Reyes has cornered the market for 'ferry' (well, boat) travel to Honduras, and does offer a good service, helping with immigration at both ports and even filling out our forms for us! The crossing was bumpy and 3 hours but pleasant enough. We then took an unexpected 8 hours to get from Puerto Cortes to La Ceiba which meant we had to [View Full Entry]

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happy 4th of july! independence day....after being in central america for a month, the meaning of this has more depth for me now. i wish i was there to celebrate with you all. today i woke up feeling sad...my first bout of homesickness :( it has been a month since i've left home and i'm missing my friends and family and the conveniences of life in Philadelphia. right now i am in dangriga, belize....waiting for a boat to take me to tobacco caye. tobacco caye is rumored to have access to some beautiful coral reefs. unlike the reefs in caye caulker, [View Full Entry]

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December 20, 2005 (It's my Birthday!!!!) So, me and my girlfriends ( D, Y and another Y) decided to take the cheap route and purchase tickets from LAX to Cancun, Mexico to get to Dangriga, Belize. We arrived at the airport 1:30pm (Cancun, immigration, passport, luggage, customs) uh oh, D's luggage is missing...."Are you sure? DAMN, DAMN, DAMN!!! D's luggage was lost....and BOYYY.. was she not happy. All of us we're bummed out. We paced for a bout an hour until customer service gave us a number:< We took a taxi to the bus station which was about 25 minutes [View Full Entry]

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