Blogs from Belize, Central America Caribbean - page 94

*quick note: the photos for San Pedro and San Ignacio are mixed up...diving was in San Pedro and school girls in San Ignacio...sorry.... leaving Mexico behind and hitting the open road of Belize was next in the plans. on the retired school bus we met drew and adrian..a couple of fun adventure seekers with a plan to find some perfect kite surfing conditions. instead they talked us into putting off our plans of heading to guatemala and do some world famous diving off of the islands of belize. considering our rough schedule...we bit. we decided on ambergris caye..a tiny fishing town gone diving crazy. the Blue Hole was our destination for morning but tonight it was the first ever christmas boat parade complete with steel drum music on the beach and...forget it, the elecricity went out. ... read more

Well, something really funny just happened, so I figured I'd try to write about it. I just met this dude Bern who is a rapper from LA, but he grew up in Belize, and went to LA first when he was younger, and got deported back to Belize. But then he made it back to America again, got lawyers and got legal. Now he is livin his dream of being a rap star, he does dance hall reggea, he calls it. It's really cool. Anyway, he came down here to san ignacio and that's where we're at. I met him, he was playing chess in a cafe. He and his two friends, Aaron and John, played games, then finally I got a game. I won! But we had a rematch for the bill, and he won, ... read more

So we took a quick side-trip to Guatemala to visit Tikal, the Maya ruins in the jungle. After handing over our (ripoff) US$18 just to leave the lovely country of Belize, and avoiding the hassles of the locals trying to charge us US$50 for a bus journey, we got on the local Collectivo bus for $4 and bumped our way to Flores. After being so long in Australia and NZ, I had forgotten the trials and tribulations of a bargaining culture (for bargaining read: ripping off the tourists) and at this stage of the trip, I was just too jaded to deal with it when we arrived in Guatemala, difficult enough as it was dealing in Spanish, after having English for so long to lean on! Tikal itself was.....good. It is supposedly one of the best ... read more

The road to Belize was an an eventful one. I left Isla Mujeres with Marito and stayed a night in Playa Del Carmen and basically partied till 6am in Playa Del Carmen with Marito. Barely an hour later I took the 7am bus to Chetumal where I had to take another connecting bus across the border to Belize city. In short I arrived in Belize City at 6.45pm missing the last boat that I needed to reach Caye Caulker. Belize City was not a really safe looking town and I was really not interested in staying there for a night. As luck would have it, I managed to get a private boat that happened to leave at 7pm and arrived unscathed in Caye Caulker at 8.30pm. Checked into a small hotel for a night and the ... read more

We headed ever south after Corker and stayed in another beach place called Placencia, the beach here was gorgeous, the stereotypical Caribbean postcard, swaying palms, blue ocean, golden sands. Doesn’t beat Piccadilly gardens on a sunny day though!! We did nothing but chill out and I got to watch Utd v Chelsea so more than happy apart from the result that is. That was it on our tour of Belize, short and sweet, which it needed to be as very expensive. Enjoyed the place and culture as all very different and the language of Garifuna, which is a mixture of English, Spanish and Swahili. Listening to the locals was just like the lilt adverts so brought a smile to our faces! The food her was also brilliant the standard of rice and beans and some jerk ... read more