Blogs from Caye Caulker, Belize Barrier Reef, Belize, Central America Caribbean - page 22

Sometimes its not so easy coming up with a "top 5" of all the things that I´ve done in my travels over the last few years. A lot of things have been cool, but for something to be rated as truly in the top 5 means that it needs to have been in a special class of its own. Shortly before I left London to start my travels, my mate Paul who´d been in Belize a few months earlier recommended that I get on the Ragamuffin 3 day/2 night island- hopping tour on a sail boat, cruising around Belize´s many uninhabited white sand islands, stopping off to snorkel at various places along the longest reef in the Western hemisphere, to eat lot of yum seafood (including some caught from the boat) and to spend the evenings ... read more

Its been a long time since you last heard from us. After our wild stay in San Cristobal we headed into the jungle in Pelanque. We actaully stayed in El Panchant an little backpackers haven right next to the Mayan ruins. Our first night there was spent drinking with our Norwegian friends from Zipolite, who had completely forgiven us for kicking them out of our car due to weight restricitons. There was a little open mic action in the jungle as well and you can bet Sam Brown took more than his fair share of turns busting out covers and originals alike into the jungle night (pictures to follow in the coming days) We watched fire dancers and otehr crazy jungle things. In the morning we headed out for the ruins. No sooner had we started ... read more

After we said good bye to the Troock Clan, Hailey and I headed to Belize City where we hopped on a boat to San Pedro. It was a bumpy ride as the coast has been quite windy lately. San Pedro was too expensive and our tummys hurt so we went to Caye Caulker. A man named Jesus picked us up on his golf cart and took us around to check out different hotels. We ended up at Sea Breeze where we met four wonderful Mexicanos who we spent the next four days travelling with. Caye Caulker was like a little Puerto Viejo Costa Rica, but on a clay island. Like I said, it was too windy to snorkel, dive, or even swim so we left the next day with the Los Vatos to Guatmala. The border ... read more

Today we left Guatemala. Very sad. It didn't feel like we had done everything we wanted to do, which is probably a good way to be. Like leaving a party early... though I've never been very good at that. Yesterday we had an amazing day at Tikal, which is the Mayan ruin. We got up at 3.00 am (I know... that is the time we should have been coming home!). Waiting 40 mins for the bus was not popular with the 3 of us... but we still made it to the Tikal park in plenty of time. We hiked in about 40 minutes in the dark, which was a little challenging, though not difficult walking. For some reason it had escaped me that I was going into the jungle, so I decided to wear my "special ... read more

Dearest Scurvy Landlubbers, You find us in deepest darkest Pirate land. Belize was formed by a colony of British pirate types who'd grown tired of sailing the seven seas, and had run out of limbs to lose in the midst of various daring dos. But, like an over-eager drum and bass DJ, I think we need a rewind. If you caught Nat's last blog, we left Mexico late last week. For my take, Chichen Itza was impressive, but I'm not sure how it got it's 7th Wonder status, over say Palenque, which is maybe less well preserved, but makes up for it with incredible jungle setting. P'raps the Itzen-ites bribed Wonder Woman somehow (I'm fairly sure she had the casting vote). Also, I enjoyed Tulum, but the cabin in which we resided in was over-run with ... read more