Dangriga, Belize Travel Blogs

The trouble with Belize transportation
Aug 3, 2005 (6 photos)

... saw some Mennonites. They have a colony called Shipyard over in Belize. Pretty neat, actually. It was confusing when we got off at Dangriga, there was a German couple. We helped each other figure out when the bus came. I decided to go find a place to eat ...

Getting in the groove of Garifuna Settlement Day
Nov 19, 2006 (11 photos)

Once in Dangriga, we headed straight to the Chaleanor Hotel where we had made reservations to camp on the roof, since all rooms in town had been booked up for months in anticipation of Garifuna Settlement Day. The weekend celebration commemorates the ...

Dangriga
Sep 26, 2006

Travel to Placencia.

Ya Da Fu We Belize: Dangriga, Belize
Sep 16, 2007 (5 photos)

... Garafuna.  It is a beautiful sing-song language - very nice to listen to. We arrived into Belize on Friday (7th) to a place called Dangriga.  It is a super chill laid back town that bases its economy on tourism and fishing.  ...

Short stopover
May 30, 2007

Stayed in plane

Tornado!
Jul 5, 2004

Yesterday the entire training group (34 of us) went to Dangriga (a Garifuna town by the ocean) for the day. It was a great experience; we learned about traditional Garifuna dance, language, and beliefs. We were entertained by a group of what I'm thinking ...

Dangriga Detour
May 15, 2009 (9 photos)

... the water and for 10 minutes we followed silently from above. Bernard, nickname: Munch, was leaving the island at 3:30 p.m. headed for Dangriga. It was lucky that we were able to find a ride that late in the afternoon. It's easier to get into the island ...

Back to work
Jan 20, 2008

... meals in our own kitchen but there isn't one at the place we're staying arg! And there's not many restaurant options around Dangriga - one resort, one seafood restaurant, a burger shop and a few Chinese food shops. So that got us a bit down but everything ...

Land of Garifuna and Rasta
Feb 18, 2009 (16 photos)

My next stop in Belize was Dangriga on the Caribbean Coast.  I took the bus from San Ignacio and with a fast and easy change in Belmopan got into Dangriga in 3 hours.  I found Val's Hostel and settled into the dorm.  Val has a laundry, ...

Dangriga
Jun 3, 2007

Map reference

Dangriga mon
Feb 11, 2008

... ops and scrub in on a cleft palate repair. Heaps of machete wounds in a&e this week - pretty much every guy in Belize owns one. Sometimes when we go past a school we see the kids out in the yard with the boys practising using machetes ...

Dangriga
Sep 9, 2009 (9 photos)

Dangriga: 1. If your first impression of the word Dangriga is a communicable disease you´d probably not be far wrong! Unfortunately we had to stay a night in Dangriga.  Not a pretty place. We went out for food at night, I got a bit spooked so we just ...

Cockscomb Basin
Feb 20, 2009 (10 photos)

... ;              I had been bitten by a gazillion sand fleas in Dangriga and had resorted to taking Benadryl to calm the itching.  Unfortunately, it made me really drowsy and I only hiked ...

Dangriga again
Feb 4, 2008

... earlier in the day there was someone there with a gun so they had to call the cops - scary! That night back in Dangriga it was pretty quiet... until we were woken at 2am when the election results were released. A parade went straight past our window and ...

Hospitals week 2
Jan 27, 2008

... distance which serves pretty delicious meals and has a jetty we can swim off. You can't really swim from the beach in Dangriga cos it's covered in rubbish and seaweed and rocks. Another night Dr Espat took us out to Crocodile Isle where they have lots of ...

Dangriga, Belize
Apr 20, 2007

Dangriga, Belize

Journey to Almond Beach
Jul 4, 2007 (2 photos)

... Airlines weren't so kind to upgrade us and we had to pay for headphones.  Outragious.  Two hours later we arrived at Belize.  The airport is tiny, tiny.  Just like how Exeter used to be when it first opened.  It was kind of homely ...

Last week in Dangriga
Feb 18, 2008

... empty. Scandalous as, but a bit of an upset for the hospital cos now they're even more short-staffed. On our last day in Dangriga we went to a barbeque with Dr Espat's friends at a flash house on top of a hill on an orange farm. Was the night of ...

Belize
Apr 18, 2008 (2 photos)

... pagamenti, mentre tutto il resto della gente era già fuori ad aspettare. Una volta terminato il tutto, via bus ho raggiunto Dangriga, una città non tanto grande sulla costa, che dovrebbe essere la capitale culturale del paese. A prima vista mi sono venuti ...

Oh what a town
Dec 21, 2005 (3 photos)

So mad right now. Just typed out this whole entry now it erased it. SO heres take two. Got to dangriga on the bus wandered around town. Found a little bar called los angeles bar. Off on some side street, very dark. The bathrooms were pretty sketchy. They ...

Belize: British Outpost
Mar 18, 2007 (9 photos)

... were quite a number of people queuing to go through. After parting with some "unexpected" money with both Guatemala and Belize we entered this strange place where everyone speaks a sort-of English (very Caribbean). Sheila, even after several days, can't ...

Belize the friendly country
Nov 12, 2004 (4 photos)

... say hello and tell you about their country, and also a parting query of ¨need some ganja mon?¨ We stayed in Dangriga a Garifuna town which are a mixed people of afro-carribean descent. Unfortunately we were a week early for the national Garifuna settlement ...

Dangriga
May 9, 2008 (2 photos)

We eventually left this morning and drove to the town of Dangriga. This is a small version of Belize City, very crowded with lots of narrow one way streets. Luckily we only had to drive along the main street to the end where we are hoping to stay. We had ...

Advice Needed
Jan 23, 2006

... some minor blood loss. How can he remedy this problem and get back to his normal carefree, swinging lifestyle? Rubbed Raw, Belize Dear Rubbed Raw, Your friend's affliction is common enough, even if the cause is unique. What he needs to do ...

dangriga
Jun 16, 2008

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Groovin' with the Garifuna
Nov 19, 2008 (1 photos)

... one day of the year where it goes nuts. The Garifuna were slaves that escaped from a nearby carribean island, landed at Dangriga and Belize took them in. The 19th celebrates the day of arrival. And so it began on the night of the 18th...Garifuna bands ( ...

Sea Kayaking
Dec 2, 2007

We went sea kayaking along the coast of Belize today which was fun- once we'd figured out the rudder and got the local kids out of the thing!

day 8
Jul 1, 2009

This morning we went to clinic with Dr Bernstein (The US nephrologist), with us was Steve (one of the US students) and Ethan (Dr Bernstein's son who’s doing Pre-med and Spanish so has been acting as an interpreteur)… A lot of people for one ...

Dangriga
Jun 18, 2005

Finally left the paradise of Caye Caulker. Was getting kind of bored anyway. Came to Dangriga as more of a stopover point. Mark was trying to get to Tobacco Caye and was trying to get to Cocksomb Basin. Not the greatest town in the world. We found a cheap ...

Back in the civilized messaging world again!
Oct 9, 2008

Hello folks, I am back from my perfect small Caribean dream island off the coast of Dangriga, a place about the size of a big football stadium with just enough nothing much to keep you occupied.  The hammock overlooking the atoll with the occasional ...