Blogs from San Ignacio, Cayo District, Belize, Central America Caribbean - page 6

Hello! At the risk of spoiling a surprise, I'm posting here tonight. I'm still amazed by how quickly we can move from place to place. A little over a week ago, I was in Lincoln, NE with windchills near -35 F. A week ago it was -5 F at 10:00 pm. Three days ago I was facilitating a video training in Cheyenne with people in three states. Yesterday I was flying after leaving home around 5:30 am. Today I was hiking amidst tropical ruins in Xunantunich. WOW! The trip has been amazing already. I stopped in DIA to buy something in a shop and met a woman from Argentina who has lived in the US for 55 years. We talked while I finished my ordering. She knows how to speak Guarani, one of the tribes down ... read more

Oh boy what a day... At 1:30 in the morning Liz and Amanda got back from the club and wanted to hang out, a bit drunk. Then at 2, 3, and 4 Matt other roomate and Justin strolled in drunk. So after little sleep I woke them up at 6;45 so we could catch the morning boat back to Belize City. Justin jumped off his bunk and wiped out hard smashing a fan and Matt staggered out of bed. We barely made the feary, I had to run back and forth so it wouldn't leave without us because Matt thought he would see the boat from the hostel and was talking to fellow guests. We met James and Jeff at the bus station and decided to go to San Ignacio for a day. We arrived in ... read more

Dicen que la vida es como un libro, el que no viaja tan solo lee la primera pagina, asi que en las ultimas semanas he realizado algunas escapadas fuera del orfanato aprovechando el fin de semana para conocer un poco mas este pais fantastico. La primera visita ha sido a Belize, he tenido que salir de Guatemala tres dias a fin de renovar el visado . En este pequeño pais he aprovechado para hacer senderismo, pues tiene una naturaleza ideal para esta practica , pude visitar algunas cuevas impresionantes , que son autenticos museos en los que aun se conservan restos de la civilizacion Maya. Pero lo que mas me ha llamado la atencion en Belize es la existencia de poblados menonitas como los Amish (¿ se acuerdan de la peli de Harrison Ford "Unico testigo" ... read more

After a few days in Caye Caulker (and the Blue Hole dive Ally loved so much) we rented a car to head to the far west of Belize close to the Guatemala border. We did it by car rather than the local "chicken bus" (so called because locals take their chickens with them sometimes) because we are soft. Actually, we had to make it back to Caye Caulker to meet up with a saling boat to head south down to coast towards Guatamela and Honduras and time was a factor. Driving in Belize is interesting. They drive on the right hand side of the road, most of the time. I wasn't sure about the speed limit, it seemed more a case of how good your vehicle was. And there was a police check-point set up, which ... read more

We arrived to the border between El Peten, Guatemala and Cayo, Belize at about 4pm on Tuesday the 27th of January. We should have arrived earlier, but sometimes life gets in the way of plans. We exited out of Guatemala, paid to have our van fumigated for a cost of under $10 USD and proceeded to the Belizean immigration and customs. Immigration was simple. Customs took a bit more time since the customs official needed to see all of our papers, fill out all of his, and inspect our vehicle before allowing us to enter the country. After going through immigration and customs we then had to purchase Belizean insurance for our van. There were no charges to enter into Belize, but we did have to pay $60 USD for the vehicle insurance. When all was ... read more