Dangriga
Travel Blogs from Dangriga, Belize
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The trouble with Belize transportation
... 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
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 ...
Ya Da Fu We Belize: Dangriga, Belize
... 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 ...
Tornado!
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 ...
Dangriga Detour
... 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
... 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 ...
Land of Garifuna and Rasta
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, ...
arrival in beautiful Belize
... local supermarkets and a large portion of the restaurants [we later discovered that this is not the case only in Dangriga, but in many parts of Belize, as many folk from Hong Kong relocated here when Hong Kong was given back to China]. It's a slightly ...
Dangriga mon
... some cool 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 ...
Cockscomb Basin
... ; 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
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 ...
Dangriga again
... All of a sudden there's hardly any cockadoodledooing anymore which makes for a much better sleep yay =) And we discovered a cafe in Dangriga that makes REAL COFFEE how excitement. And we got some newbies at the hospital - Austen and James who are ...
Hospitals week 2
... biking 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 ...
Journey to Almond Beach
Woke up at 10am, well 10am English Time. 5am Miami time. Checked out the weather on TV and sun, sun, sun in Belize, yey! The humidity really started to build up as we went to the airport. American Airlines weren't so kind to upgrade us ...
Hurrying through Honduras
... in Belize us sea-sick, bruised and battered and also at least 2 inches shorter from the pounding our spines had taken. In Dangriga, Belize we were once again ripped off by a taxi driver who, after much haggling had agreed to take us to the apparently ...
Last week in Dangriga
... 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
... fare 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 ...
Oh what a town
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
... there 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, ...
Dangriga
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 ...
Belize the friendly country
... to 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 ...
Not the nicest places in Belize
... boat off to the Tobacco Cayes for diving but since my ears are still blocked I thought I'd do some land exploring starting with Dangriga. I'd opted for a hostel from the guidebook - Val's place run by Diane, a lovely, very hospitable lady (she'd named the ...
Real Deal
A bit gritty and rough on the edges, Dangriga was the real deal. The first night, we found a perfect spot under a huge tree along the beach. We spent the entire day there, just relaxing and enjoying the breeze. So much time in fact, we missed ...
Advice Needed
... 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 ...
Short and sweet.
The end of our stay in Belize, we arrived in Dangriga to catch the boat to Honduras the next morning. ...
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