To get to our next stop in Belize, San Ignacio, we simply wandered across the road from our hotel and looked a bit lost in the market area with the buses. Eventually someone will sing out a list of names, and you pick the one you want. In our case it was Belize City, which is not the capital of Belize (this is a name you want to note down for your next trivia night – Belize City was once the capital but no more – now it's Belmopan). Belize City has about 300,000 people so there should be plenty of buses going there. After that we would need to go to Belmopan, the actual capital; a bustling metropolis of about 20,000. The bus shuddered down the potholed road, billowing clouds of diesel smoke, and we
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