Blogs from San Ignacio, Cayo District, Belize, Central America Caribbean - page 8

My most recent travels have brougt me to cross the border, learn a little spanish, and eat lots of avocados. Last weekend myself and Josh left the country early Friday morning for the tiny island of Flores, located about 2 hours off the border. We found a lovely place to stay over looking the lake and spent our days going to caves, swimming in the lake, and going to an animal reserve. Of course we consumed lots of yummy nachos and fresh, fresh produce. Avocados aren't in growing season in Belize(so we snuck some across the border) and the produce is alot tastier than here also(we ate alot of melt-in-your-mouth mangoes). This past Wednesday my Maya class took a trip to Caracol, in mountain pine ridge. The weather was suprisingly cool and our teacher is the ... read more

Right, so we have better computers, so HOPEFULLY some pictures will accompany this little entry, but dont blame me if i have spoken too soon. At the moment, we're in a river valley town called San Ignacio, up in the hills, and had hoped the weather would be less stifling, but oh no, its probably worse becuase being in a bowl, the breeze isnt as stiff as you'd like, so i have had about 4 showers today, and will be having at least 2 more by sleep time! We left Placencia on another little plane, much fun, was a clearer day so could see much more below and in the distance, pretty tropical. We had to go to a place called Dangriga to cath a bus, and just missed one, so had to wait for an ... read more

Back to the Mainland A great idea John and Joan had was to take a trip inland and visit Tikal, in Guatemala. Along the way we could make a stop-over in the city of San Ignacio, located just a few miles from the border with Guatemala. There are lots of eco tourism options in San Ignacio and it’s at the halfway point to Tikal (one of the largest Mayan ruins discovered). Sounded great to us and since there were 4 of us, it made more sense to rent a car; making our lives a lot easier. Our road trip began by taking the water taxi in to Belize City where the car rental agency picked us up at the terminal. We rented from Crystal Auto Rental and everyone there was great. Once at the main office, ... read more

So Yesterday after my internet session i headed off to grab some grub and went to Villa Del Chef again as the lasagna had been so good the night before, i headed over there and Eric and Constantine were there and so we chatted to my food came and then they headed off and wished me luck on the rest of my trip. I then went for a wander around Flores and bought some small gifts/trinkets which i will post when i can afford it and when i get chance to, as i was going to be up at 7.30am to go to Belize, i decided to head back to the hotel and i watched a little tv and then headed off to bed. I woke with a bad stomach as usual the anitbiotics have made ... read more

Its been awhile and i have been up to alot... not that you care about what I am doing, the pictures are why you are reading this. This past saturday a few of us and the environmental club at galen went to mountain pine ridge forest reserve for an over night stay. we got there around 12, and dropped our stuff off at a house that is owned by belizes forestry dept., one of the girls in the clubs father works for. other than us, there was only army guards and one other family. we walked up to the tower where you can see the mountains and pines go on for ever. then we went to this amazing cave, rio frio. words or pictures cant capture the sheer beauty of being in that cave. the stars ... read more