Orange Walk, Belize Travel Blogs

Lamanai - Mayan Ruins in Belize
Dec 22, 2008 (4 photos)

Jeste 21. prosince odpoledne jsem se rozhodl, ze vyrazim smerem do Belize, i kdyz spoustu lidi rikalo, ze je to velmi draha zeme, ktera nenabizi nic, co by meli jine zeme. Nakonec jsem ale zjistil, ze tomu tak uplne neni. Co bylo pravda, ze to neni uplne ...

walking the orange walk
Oct 31, 2008

... every shop and hotel and restaurant in this town at least seems to be Run by people of Chinese decent. Belize and orange walk are defiantlty a country unto themselves for central America. Upon arriving in Orange walk it was already really dark and ...

Belize vs. Belize
Jan 3, 2008

... depressing view of more of Belize City and several police checkpoints on the highway*, we had a fairly unremarkable drive up to Orange Walk. The driver played reggae/garifuna, American pop, and Rihanna, and the sun was coming out by the time we were ...

You Better Belize There's a Hurricane Coming
Aug 18, 2007

... the bug filled bathroom and lack of screened windows.   Today we had a day of discovery in Orange Walk. The place is the agricultural hub of Belize. It's a town of 8,000. And what do you think about in Belize when talking about agriculture? ...

An (Orange) Walk on the Wild Side
Jan 14, 2008 (4 photos)

... The main (well, only) reason for stopping here was to visit the Mayan ruins of Lamanai which are accessed by boat from Orange Walk. The boat journey was the highlight of the trip as we got to see crocodiles, massive iguanas and loads of different ...

Up and down the New River
Jan 4, 2008

... old-fashioned picture books, towing a barge of bargasso upriver through the jungle. After the tour, Sarah and I wandered around for Orange Walk for quite some time trying to find something decent to eat, and eventually came back to Hotel de la Fuente ...

Loving the jungle
Sep 22, 2009 (19 photos)

Border Cross on Bus to Orange Walk
Oct 13, 2007

... way to town for a breakfast burrito. Bussed out 5 hours to Chetumal, the Mexican border town and caught a first class bus to Orange Walk, Belize a couple of hours later. A stray dog took a liking to Nadine and monkey. We spent our last pesos on a mango ...

Is good to be back in the Commonwealth
Apr 9, 2008 (7 photos)

After another fine breakfast at the Weary Traveller, i headed to Chetumal on the border where i would catch a bus to Orange Walk, Belize. At the bus station i met Emeline, a French girl whom i had met in Tulum. she was headed to flores but the bus wasnt ...

Moved on to Orange Walk Town
Nov 4, 2008

Continuing to travel south in Belize so stopped here for a night on route to Crooked Tree Wildlife Sanctuary...

Orange Walk
Apr 2, 2008 (8 photos)

Drove a bit further inland to the town of Orange Walk, the second largest town in the country. It sounds as if it is big, but when you consider there are only around 280,000 people in the country as a whole you will realize it is quite small in reality ...

Pickpocketed in the hole that is Belize City
Feb 21, 2007

... , we ended up going back through Belize City.  It takes about the same amount of time to get to Orange Walk, we just originally wanted to avoid Belize City. We took a cab from the water terminal to the bus terminal.  When we got out of the ...

Monkey and Maya Mania
Oct 17, 2009 (10 photos)

... in the coral reefs but Belize is not a cheap country especially in the real touristy places so we decided to just head to Orange Walk to check out the Maya ruins at Lamanai, trying to avoid all the tourists again.... managed to stumble into a lovely hotel ...

La route des mayas
Jul 16, 2009 (16 photos)

Nous avons fait un arret dans le petit village de Orange Walk. Visite de Lamanai, site maya datant de 1500 avant J.C. situe sur une des rives de la "New River".  Pour se rendre, nous avons fait 1h et demi de bateau moteur sur la riviere, dont les ...

Orange Walk
Apr 25, 2006 (8 photos)

... an early start this morning in Mexico and a slight scare just before the border we find ourselves in the small town of Orange Walk, Belize. Nothing here but we have come to take a boat trip out to Lamanai, an archealogical site and lagoon. On the way ...

Tulum and Orange Walk
Sep 18, 2007 (11 photos)

... 30pm we get the bus to Chetumal, the border town with Belize, arriving at 5.35 we head straight in to look for onward buses to Orange Walk in Belize and find there is one leaving at 5.45, Quick turn around we empty out all our pesos and have 95. It is 100 ...

Orange Walk
Jul 15, 2009

... again? Well we had to pay it... The girl at the custom was really nice, and gave us a month visa. We started driving towards Orange Walk, a 30 minutes drive.  Finally end up in a 1h30 drive.  We took the wrong road and end up in a small village ...

Just like home!
Oct 2, 2008

... This caribean country really is just like home: No matter how many car wrecks there are in each front yard - the lawn is meticulously kept! And most taxis are Mercedes! (About ~'85 models). But then again, no, people here walk much slower! b.

Menonite haven
Oct 13, 2007

... feel (although it is nowhere near the coast) and was full of Menonites which are German descendants who have settled in Belize and live a basic farming life without electricity or running water. They all look like they have stepped straight off a Texan ...

Lamanai
Jul 24, 2007 (9 photos)

Orange Walk is a really tiny town and honestly not much going on unless you are like us and want to see the mayan ruins at Lamanai.  We stayed at this Japanese hotel called Akhito it was really clean and the showers were huge so that was nice.  ...

Venus Bus!
Feb 19, 2007

Crossed the border on the madest looking bus... an old american school bus, not built for adults of any height!

Lamanai on Sunday
Jan 10, 2006 (10 photos)

Visited Maya ruins at Lamanai on Sunday. We took a tour that included a boat ride to and from the ruins. The distance from Orange Walk to Lamanai is 24 miles one way on the river, but the boat ride down took approximately 2 hours because Ronny, our ...

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Jun 8, 2008

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Inland small town Belize
Nov 15, 2008 (8 photos)

... 2 hours. We are off the main tourist run now & had a medocre KFC type experience at what passes for the best restaurant in Orange Walk, beware Nahil Mayab (or just go for cocktails). Now we have never been up late here (remember the dawn dogs & chickens) ...

Orange Walk....Again?
Jul 19, 2009

Did I mention I forgot my battery charger for my camera? Well...I did. We drove back, 2 hours total, to get it back. Clap clap. Standing Ovation. And the Nobel Prize for Peace goes to.......... me!!!!!   (nobody wants to fight war without a ...

monkey business in belize
Nov 27, 2008 (8 photos)

... walk -November the 25th - 27th             Today we went to orange walk about 1 n 1/2hrs inland to farming area, small town             with ...

Lamani
Mar 21, 2006 (4 photos)

Today we the Jungle Rivers Tour to Lamani with Igancio Lino. He was an awesome guide and he'd studied archeology for several years so he was very good at answering our questions - he also had a real sense of humor. On the river we took a branch to the ...

Orange Walk
Mar 20, 2006

This morning we got up early to catch the Venus Bus to Orange Walk. Luckily they were parked just a few blocks from our hotel so we just walked over to the Texaco by the BelChina Bridge (named because the Chinese helped them build it, there is also a ...

Howler Monkeys sound just like Jurassic Park
Jan 4, 2008

... on.  After the tour our guide provides a "typical Belizean lunch" and we head back. On the way back down river to Orange Walk we spot a small crocodile and all pull out our cameras. Back in town Wende and I walk about a bit and decide to stay ...

Orange Walk
Feb 13, 2009 (5 photos)

... City.  We went to the information centre, and Tom asked the woman behind the desk: "Hola.  Donde esta el autobus a Orange Walk?". She leant forward, narrowed her eyes, and said slowly: "Do...you...speak...English?" Belize has a relaxed, Caribbean ...