Blogs from Belize, Central America Caribbean - page 3

One week in Belize! One week of yoga, nature, and adventures! The yoga retreat was organized by Maya Valley Yoga Retreats and was held at Toucan Ridge Ecological and Education Society (TREES) in the Stann Creek District of Belize. I had my own cabin, with our yoga space a few steps away, and meals in a shared space prepared by a vegetarian chef! Each day we ate amazing food and practiced yoga morning and late afternoon. The yoga teachers were lovely and all of the other yogis were a special group! Each day a different optional excursion was offered. My favorites by far were: snorkeling in Tobacco Caye (pronounced "key"), the Belize Zoo, and St. Herman's Cave. Our snorkeling day was a beautiful blue sky day. On our boat, on the way to Tobacco Caye, we ... read more

Our stay at Glover's has come to an end. I think we loved it even better than 6 years ago, as the boys are old enough now to do so much fishing, but it's definitely not a place for those wanting to be pampered. The well water (for the 2 outdoor showers on the cay) is sulfur smelling and fairly salty, and compost toilets are not my favourite amenities. I love the over the water cabins and the beautiful starry nights, and the lack of electricity and being disconnected is wonderful for awhile (the main building with their restaurant has a generator amd wifi is turned on a couple hours each evening so you can still get any semi urgent messages, but no one walks around glued to their smartphone, which is a welcome change to ... read more

On Sunday morning, we took a taxi to the Sittee Marina and waited for the boat to go out to Glovers atoll. The boat was a much smaller one than we went on 6 years ago, and it was a pretty bumpy, wet ride. There was the 4 of us, an Italian named Mathieu, and a family of 4. Once we got out here, we settled in our cabins, and the boys went out to catch a few lobster (lobster season has just started, just need to go 1 mile out from shore). Had lobster pasta the first night, fish and lobster day 2 and day 3. When they're not out hunting, the boys are catch and release fishing from shore. Happy children :) And I'm having plenty of hammock lounging and book reading.... read more

What a wonderful day! I stopped by the police station last night, who have been checking on Auri's bag, and he said he received a message from the taxi driver that the bag had been located was coming over on the ferry, but it was too late to check on the ferry. He called me first thing this morning to say the bag was here, so I walked down and got it. Everything in it except a pair of sunglasses that probably broke. God is so good! We are a very happy family today :)... read more

June 26, 2019 Since our trip in 2013, the boys have been wanting to go back to Belize, specifically back to Glovers Reef Resort. It's a caye out in the middle of nowhere on Glovers Reef atoll, with very rustic accomodations (no electricity, compost toilet, 2 shared showers etc), but insanely beautiful, with little cabins on the beach and out over the water. You're allowed to take conch, lobster (in season- last time it wasn't the season but this year it is, so we're looking forward to that!), spear fish: all the things we can't do at home due to the Roatan marine park, so the boys are really excited for that. We had planned to travel overland from Roatan, taking the morning ferry, busing to Omoa and spending a couple nights there, then bus to ... read more