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- Belmopan
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- Belize Dollar (BZD)
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Belize City Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Belize City, Belize
Speaking with an English twang, man!
This is a top pick! ... your attention, constantly having issues with me for not stopping and talking. I saw very few other travellers in the area, I think Belize city is the jumping point for the beautiful islands off the coast, or the more rustic feel of southern Belize in ...
Apples are the most dangerous objects around
This is a top pick! ... off so the British couple and I all departed, since the bus wasn't going anywhere. The bus station just looked so unidentified. And Belize City itself wasn't spectacular at all. It had the makings of a reasonable city, but not a metropolis. I saw a McDs ...
Bed Bugs and Beyond
This is a top pick! ... in the brightest eye catching colours they can find. With the windows open for some air conditioning it was a windy few hours to Belize City which sadly was very seedy in the darkness of nightfall. We found a taxi driver who was happy to drive ...
Belize, second largest Barrier Reef
This is a top pick! This is just for the map pin as we typed it and tagged it onto the Mexico entry guys!!! ...
Rain, sun, rain, sun, cookie.....
This is a top pick! ... and I went to breakfast, then Kate went back to bed - she wasn't feeling well and the rest of us went in to Belize. Overall, Belize was a bit of a disappointment - we only stayed for a bit, but the boat ride over was nice. The water here is soooo ...
The shaman squid and the princess
This is a top pick! After the sun sat down behind an exotic island, I jumped in the golden ocean in the quest for finding balance in my soul. Once I reached the ocean floor, my attention was drawn towards 7 beautiful multicolour squids. Six of them formed a ...
more wildlife, more camping, just how we like it
This is a top pick! ... of which had been sick, injured, or otherwise incapable of surviving in the wild. That afternoon we caught a bus in to Belize City, where we bought more groceries and boarded another bus to the remote village of Bermudian Landing to visit the Community ...
Seeing is Belizing!
This is a top pick! ... lass with an equally Scottish sense of humour, always on hand to help wherever needed and snapping pics for their website. We couldn't BELIZE our eyes when we realised where we'd be spending our first night! On our very own island with a grand total ...
The Backside of Belize
This is a top pick! ... Onshore is scruffy jungle and mosquito-breeding marsh. Given the crime and our lack of time, we spent a quick night in Belize City and headed for our penultimate border crossing. When we crossed into Belize, the female customs agent started asking ...
The Slump of Belize City
This is a top pick! ... slump. I have been to South Central/Englewood, Los Angeles this summer to repo cars for the rental car agency, that was scary. Belize city on a scale of 1 to 10 was a perfect ten scary. I was little scared walking with Juliette, while black dudes watch ...
Leaving Mexico--into Belize
This is a top pick! ... across half the country of Belize and arrived very late in Belize City. Not knowing where to go, we WALKED in the darkness of Belize city trying to find a hotel. After a little search through the Rough Guide, we found a nice friendly place to our liking, ...
Our first taste of the Caribbean
This is a top pick! ... and another fairly long journey, through the middle of nowhere....but everything was in english and the actually had roads!!!! Finally arrived in Belize City. We had been told is was a dump, and it sure was! I was amazed, it didnīt look anything like a ...
You Better Belize It
... around 80,000. This is an estimate I couldnīt be bothered doing a head count. It was a Saturday night when I arrived in Belize city. I met a Swede and a German (named Tam and Rab respectively) in the hostel and we went out clubbing that evening. It ...
Exploring Mayan Ruins
... and tilapia; and to Jamaica they send pork and beef. The remainder of our tour consists of cruising through the streets of Belize City during rush hour before we wind up back where we started, where we bid farewell to our friendly tour guide. ...
Arrival
... paid extra to visit as part of the shuttle. Erinn and I were quiet most of the way, drinking in the "scenery" of Belize City and having a little bit of culture shock. I had read many places that the best way to see Belize City was through the ...
Restaurants and Bars
... salad or coleslaw and fry plantains. They also provide excellent places for breakfast. The second largest populous group in Belize is Chinese so there are a large number of the inevitable Chinese restaurants of varying standards most of them are ...
Return Trip to Belize City
... of a couple of back packers (Lewis and Emma) who required a lift back to the City, we decided to risk coming back to Belize City. After 1 1/4 hrs on the road we arrived at the crossing a found a large queue of trucks, buses and vans not a good ...
Alright...we're here...Belize City airport
... it's definitely different from any other country I've visited so far...the airline lost our luggage so we had to drive into Belize City to find some clothes...it was a very intriguing endeavour...the one traffic light didn't even help us...please excuse ...
Belize
... produced no ill effects after half an hour. GAME ON! We were on the second tender across from our mooring to Belize City :) The Former British Crown Colony of British Honduras is about the size of Wales, but has a population of ...
Cave Diving....Brrrrrrrr!
... assistant walks up to us and tells us to get into the Forgio, anyway. The Forgio is the largest natural cave in all of Belize with large channels of water flowing underneath it. Once we get into the cave, we put on our diving suits and wait for our ...
Getting ready for the move
... after a night in Guate City and then another night on the island of Flores, we're back to the devil's heat of Belize. I just bought a stove and mattress and some plastic storage buckets for water. While I was buying the plastic things from a kid ...
Belize it or NOT!
... A taxi to the wrong bus terminal didn't help but soon we were on route to Puerto Cortes but missed the last ferry to Belize. Instead we headed to the Guatemalan border and got an overcrowded sweat bucket minibus to Puerto Barrios. It was like the old joke ...
Party in the Park
Today is the second day of the Belize Belikin Fest, this is part of the September celebrations and is basically a four day Friday to Monday Party in the Park. Live bands and DJ's playing a hypnotic mix of R&B, Reggae Punta Rock and other Latin ...
Oops, forgot one thing...
Oops...forgot the most important part of the last email: While walking through my village with the chairman's wife, it began to get dark. She said, "let's get home before it gets dark, the fer-de-lances come out ...
Views Around Belize City
... it is also the most prone to disaster as it only just lies above sea level, frequent flooding is a common sight around the city. Belize City is also the port of entry for all tourist who usually only spend one night here on arrival or when leaving the ...
Belize
... at all and have generous, easy smiles. They warned us about Belize City - not to walk at night, etc.... We entered belize City and because night was not far away, decided to get a hotel. Our first try was at the Pricess Hotel and Casino, ...
. . . so about that rash
... conditioned van to Belize city instead of the overcrowded non-ACed bus with everyone else. Once we got to PC headquarters in belize city I really wasn't feeling well, was having a little bit of trouble breathing and was really shaky. Jackie, the PCMO ...