Blogs from Belize, Central America Caribbean - page 10

The week out on the ‘water’ at Glovers was an out-of today’s-world experience. Starting Sunday a week ago, we headed out from Sitee River, a mangrove-lined, crocodile-shy estuary, across the bar into open ‘water’; then for 180 mins through minor inner cays to the outer reaches of the coastal shelf, ultimately to the last 4 cays strung along the Caribbean side of a 6mi wide, 12mi long coral reef. The largest of these cays is Glovers Atoll Resort, a 10 acre coconut shaded island lined by either white sands or coral reef rock. The place is run by3 generations of Lamonts – a bit of history: Marsha-Jo, the matriarch and her late husband started the original resort on Lamont Cay in the late 60’s; this cay and resort was completely wiped off the map by Hurricane ... read more

Crazy trip down here – Toronto, Indianapolis, New York, Belize City, finally Hopkins Beach – two replaced planes and flight delays, gunned it into NYC, and just caught the flight into Belize City because it too, had been delayed by 30mins. Arrived with my gear on the same plane!! Belize City and Seaside Guest House lived up to their reputation – friendly but SEEDY!! Then a reasonably fast but ‘charismatic’ bus trip from Belize City through villages, mountain outcrops, bush and orange groves, to Hopkins Beach. On the bus, lots of friendly and multi-lingual folk who share their cell-phone family pictures – everyone has their hand-held cell phones, even if they do cost 3x Cdn retail prices. The last 4mi stretch from the Southern Highway into Hopkins Beach was by hitch hike –like everyone, especially the ... read more

Limestone seems to be the theme of this blog entry I think it was more than a decade since I, Ake, celebrated Christmas at home. I have made it a tradition to go abroad for at least a few days over the holidays and I honoured that tradition in 2015 by going to Central America. Here in this the first blog entry from that trip I will write about what I did in the first couple of days when I visited Belize. Belieze is a small country that has lots of interesting places worth visiting. I spent only four days there but staying longer would have been no problem. I could easily have travelled for two weeks in Belize without getting bored. But I would have preferred to make such a trip together with my loved ... read more

We spent a day in San Ignacio, between two days with trips further afield. We started with a nice lazy breakfast at Ko-Ox Han-Nah, and then headed to the green iguana conservation project. It's in the grounds of a large resort hotel, and we were a little dubious about the conservation part of the work, but it was great to get so close to so many iguanas. I had three or four small ones climbing on me at once! We then walked to Cahal Pech Mayan ruins. There was more there than we expected, and it was nice to explore the site on our own with relatively few people around. It was pretty warm outside of the shade.... read more

We were up early to pack and leave Caye Caulker on the water taxi to Belize City. Whilst it was a bit windy, it was nice and sunny and we got great views of the islands we passed, including one that was just a house on stilts! We arrived at Belize City to be greeted by lots of little shops people trying to sell us long distance express buses. If you wanted to get to Guatemala, it'd be no problem. As I was, we were quite keen on an express, air conditioned bus (we're not really adventurous when faced with a more comfortable bus!) and took one of them up on the offer. This saved us the walk to the bus station with our big bags, which we were able to leave. We had couple of ... read more