Caye Caulker, Belize Travel Blogs

Breathe In, Breathe Out
Aug 1, 2005 (10 photos)

... up more people, I guess they needed to consolidate to save costs. We passed by and got to see the entire island of Caye Caulker, and it was interesting to see how uninhabited the northern half of the island is. There's a little channel in the middle ...

Beach Bums and Burns
May 2, 2006 (4 photos)

... there, Andrew answered "oh, a couple of hours". The custom agent sighed and shook his head) From Belize City, it was a 45 minute boat ride to Caye Caulker on a boat with three 200 hp outboard engines. One engine wasn't working properly, so the crew ...

Sand between the toes
Jul 31, 2005 (5 photos)

... told me which room and showed me the bathrooms. I had a room. It was fairly large and had ceiling fans. I had a room. I loved Caye Caulker (pronounced kind of like Key Corker). I loved my room. There was a lovely terrace where I was able to listen to ...

Snorkeling
Apr 2, 2004 (1 photos)

... is it? Today we did a snorkeling tour of the barrier reef. The second largest barrier reef is off the coast of Belize and it is incredible. We made several stops which included swimming with sharks and sting rays, and swimming among the reef and it's ...

I found an Island paradise!
Apr 1, 2004 (4 photos)

... to buy crank and other assorted drugs. They aren't too persistent once you tell them to get lost so it's no big deal. Caye Caulker is an island paradise. Except for a police truck and a couple work trucks, there are no cars on the island. Just ...

The good life
Nov 28, 2006 (10 photos)

... lands and don't build on all of it. It was a beautiful walk along the ocean and mangroves. There is no real beach here on Caye Caulker, the popular 'beach' hang out is at a crumbling concret bridge. It was a bit crowded so we found a nice spot to chill, ...

Vicarious Travel: I Will Belize It When I See It
Feb 1, 2006 (3 photos)

Caye Caulker, Belize - Not that I feel the need to defend myself, but I have a million good reasons to travel the world backpack-style. In fact, I can't even think of a reason not to continually experience new culture, see mind-blowing sites, purge the ...

I've been in three different countries ...
Jan 4, 2003 (9 photos)

... a bit to do with a lot of places being shut for New Years day, and the not so great accomodation. The next destination was Caye Caulker in Belize and so the bus ride took a bit longer with a stop to go through Mexico border, get back on the bus and go ...

Guatemala and Belize
Dec 19, 2004

... most of the day didn`t help. But, it is always nice to chill a bit. From San Ignacio, we went to Caye Caulker, off the coast of Belize and on the barrier reef, the second largest in the world. We had a bit of variety in transport...a bus to Belize ...

Little piece of paradise
Aug 5, 2006 (25 photos)

So we made our way from Playa down to Belize. A really long journey and no real idea of what it would be like when we got there but boy was it worth it....a gorgeous island (just like the maldives but with a bit more going on) with plenty of fish swimming ...

UNBELIZABLE!
Jun 17, 2003 (2 photos)

Managed to actually leave Tulum on Tuesday, spent 4 days in "Caye Caulker" in the Caribbean off the Belize coast. Man, am I glad I made it, was a total shock coming from Mexico though, everything is in English, everyone spoke Creole or Garifuna (carib ...

Wait a second....where did the month go?
Oct 18, 2003 (5 photos)

... impossible and had a couple of beers on the rooftop balcony of our hotel with a dutch guy and an swiss girl Caye Caulker, Belize...3 nights....not quite done with this one, yet...today, we went snorkeling all day and opted for "the local guy with a ...

You Better Belize it!
May 18, 2007 (20 photos)

... .  He only has 20 days so we needed to move. Our first stop was an Island of the mainland of Belize called Caye Caulker.  Belize was a huge suprise to me.  First of all English is the offical lannguage, secondly its so multi cultural they ...

Snorkeling the Belize Reef
Nov 23, 2001 (2 photos)

... Juliette and I swam among the beauty of the sea until we are exhausted. We stop at San Pedro for lunch. Then headed back to Caye Caulker in the afternoon. All and all it was a great day in the carribean. I didn't wanna leave this place, paradise found! ...

Caye Caulker
Nov 21, 2001 (3 photos)

We took the speed boat to Caye Caulker. The ride was smooth, the weather clear. The boat is full, when we arrived at Caye Caulker, which was just a small island on the northern reef of Belize, we found a very nice hotel call Daisy's. The place is small ...

Swimming with sharks
Nov 23, 2008 (11 photos)

... they are so different--ranging from downright depressing (in other words, just a bed) to cute little houses in prime locations. On Caye Caulker, I stayed at Tinas Hostel, which was right on the beach, had a garden full of hammocks, and was about 100 meters ...

And on to Belize
Oct 27, 2009

Country #2 - BELIZE Capital - Belmopan Population - 256,000 Currency - Belize Dollar

Diving at Gallows Point
May 16, 2008 (6 photos)

... back to BDS where we again rinsed our gear and hung it up for the next day.  After getting back to Caulker, we booked a hopper flight to Placencia with Tropic Air at our hotel.  The clerk who ordered the tickets for us also ...

Diving at the North Cut and Hol Chan
May 15, 2008 (5 photos)

... nbsp; I ordered scrambled eggs with onion and tomato, which were very good, and a cappuccino, which was good for a coffee drink on Caye Caulker, but I would have considered it to be very poor anywhere else.  There was no foam to speak of at all and it ...

A Stiff Shot of Rum
Apr 11, 2001

Yay! Just so you all know we made it, we are now on Caye Caulker in Belize. We are sipping on rum and cokes ($1.75 for a VERY stiff drink) as we type. It is hot and sunny, but there is a wonderful breeze coming off of the sea. This has to be THE most ...

Belize and the weird Rasta Language
Sep 27, 2006 (3 photos)

... Just a bunch of bored-looking Rastas cruising up and down streets-of-sand looking for something to do with their dreadlocks. In Caye Caulker they speak a creole, a kind of hybrid language of English. If you have ever heard a bad jamaican accent (or seen ...

No roads, no cars and lobster for every meal
Jul 11, 2009 (47 photos)

... to Belize from Panama City by plane and once in the airport, quickly made the decision to catch the 1030am puddle jumper to Caye Caulker. It turned out to be worth every penny as we had the most incredible view of the emerald green and turquiose sea and ...

Unwinding after training
Jul 11, 2005 (8 photos)

I flew into Belize City and then took a water taxi out to Caye Caulker. This is the most laid back place you could ever hope for. The only motorized vehicle I saw on the island the whole week was the beer delivery pickup truck. I hung out with some ...

Island madness!
Sep 26, 2009 (3 photos)

... at Chetumal at around midday and finding that the next bus wasn't leaving until 2.30pm and the last ferry was leaving Belize City to Caye Caulker at 5.30 and the bus ride was supposedly around 4 hours depending on traffic. Fortunately one thing I hadn't ...

Caye a fancy way to say Island
Aug 27, 2007

Day 20... It is hard to believe it has been nearly three weeks since i left. I don't have anything very interesting to say right now. So i will just put up the pics from the last week i've been meaning to. I'll write more when i feel the motivation. ...

Caye Caulker
May 11, 2008 (2 photos)

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Belize Barrier Reef and Blue Hole
Mar 29, 2009 (99 photos)

... catch another bus finally arrived in Belize City at 9am, after travelling through miles of farmland, then caught the 45 minute speedboat to Caye Caulker Island. The island is a small one that has been split in two due to a hurricane a few years ago. A ...

Chilled in the Caribbean
Feb 17, 2008 (26 photos)

... what can I say about Caye Caulker! The first thing you see when arriving on the island is a sign saying "Welcome to  Caye Caulker, Go Slow". Never has a sign been so true! This is the Caribbean and English is the main language here, which came as ...

Caye Caulker
Nov 22, 2007 (5 photos)

The day after Tikal and getting up super early we had another early start, leaving Flores at 5 am for a 12 h trip to Caye Caulker.  It was so nice to get back to the sea and the Caribbean architecture!  But of course first things first-- an ...

Sailing, Snorkling and Sunbathing on Caye Caulker
May 17, 2007

Well here I am sitting in the gloriously airconditioned ludicrously expensive internet cafe on the island of Caye Caulker off of Belize in the Carribean! Been having an awsome time here, the weather is absolutely gorgeous and have spent the day on a ...