Placencia, Belize Travel Blogs

The last day with my girl Eloise
Aug 7, 2005 (7 photos)

I decided to go snorkelling the next day because there was an opening and it was cheaper than advertised, so hey, might as well. So I had to get more money (cash advance) and paid for yet another night. There was another couple and another family there ...

Sleepy Fishing Village...Fishy Sleeping Village
Aug 5, 2005 (6 photos)

Lonely planet made sure to note that Placencia was once called a Sleepy Fishing Village before the tourism industry and snorkelling came to town, but since then it has become a Fishy Sleeping Village. And I can agree, with some of the locals you meet, you ...

Rain, rain, go away...
Dec 2, 2006 (2 photos)

... pack, taking out innocent bystanders on the sidewalk with his new width. We caught a series of buses and a boat to Placencia in Southern Belize, grabbing a cheap hotel room, a less cheap dinner and icecream, and exploring a bit of the town which centers ...

Placencia
Sep 26, 2006 (6 photos)

... Brits in the room next to us catching the same ferry as us to Honduras so had some travelling buddies, all good. I would recommend Placencia but that might mean more people would go there and I loved that it was so small, laid back and quiet but I may ...

The adventure starts!
Jun 2, 2007 (6 photos)

... on Friday morning, 2 hours before we find the website ... . Hubby looked at 100 websites, at least. NO connection between Belize and the Caribbean, but via the States: very expensive and completely stupid! You fly OVER Jamaica, three hours north, land in ...

Suckers, that is what...
May 31, 2007 (3 photos)

... the beginning. Out of the hotel at 08h15. Hubby hardly slept, I am awake at 6h. Excited! This is the main street in Placencia. The tourist guide says, it is the narrowest street in the world, according to the Guinness Book of Records. It is all very ...

I write to you from the purple space monkey ...
Dec 19, 2002

I write to you from the Purple Space Monkey Internet Cafe in Placencia, Belize where I am fighting a losing battle with my stomach over the digestation of a lobster burrito. Evidence that the further you go away the more things stay the same - I just had ...

Bye to Ambergris, hello to Placencia
May 30, 2007 (7 photos)

... the front.  Safety rules do not apply here, you can call while flying:. We fly to Belize City, 1 hour interval. Fly to Placencia, via Dangriga. Land, take off, land, take off.  We arrive in Placencia at noon and ...

I can see the sea! (with poo update)
Jul 6, 2005 (3 photos)

... and any other wanderers who came to Belize is a welcoming sight. Combine this with the fact that the official language of Belize is English, although the bastardised English dialect of Creole is not easily comprehendable, it made for an even more pleasing ...

The narrowest street in the world
Nov 8, 2006 (3 photos)

... kept looking. Went to buy some cigarrettes in the local chinese grocery store. (all the stores seem to be owned by chinese in Belize!). Then checked out a few more places to eat, everywhere was shut or dead! So ended up back at Barefoot, where we had had ...

Plancencia ...finalmente
Dec 29, 2004

Alright so we finally arrived at our destination...tired and cranky and bums numb from the road...but on the whole excited! The power was out when we arrived...so finding our hotel was doubly fun...time to go get some grub and hit the sack... Cheers ...

Glover's reef to Cancun - a good 20 hour journey
Sep 10, 2006

... they seemed nice enough and we had talked a bit during the bus ride. They were both businessmen from Lebanon, having lived in Belize for several years. I am glad I know enough Arabic to understand the content of what they were talking about (feeling a bit ...

Placencia
Sep 10, 2009 (12 photos)

... contest and a parade (probably on par with La Paz Day!) Otherwise we snorkeled, lay on the beach and ate before catching the boat from Placencia to Puerto Cortes in Honduras.  We wished we could have stayed longer but the boat only goes once a week.

Placencia
Jun 7, 2007

Map reference only

Arrival
Dec 22, 2008

... and still catch her connection.  So we were all in Belize city by about 3 pm, and then we drove down here to placencia village in placencia.  we had a bit of a mishap with getting into our rooms, because the office was closed (at 8:30 pm), but ...

On the Toucan Trail...but off the beaten path
Feb 13, 2006 (15 photos)

... dancing and drumming on the very first night we got here as part of a weekend festival that just happened to be on. Placencia's main street is actually a narrow footpath (more of a sidewalk) which threads its way among wood frame houses on stilts. It ...

A 'buggy' day!
Sep 3, 2006 (5 photos)

I left Caye caulker behind on an early boat to Belize City and got to the bus terminal to find my bus to Dangriga. The local buses are converted school buses (so the leg room isn't the best.) I found them to be very cheap and efficient. So efficient in ...

Silk Cayes
Dec 24, 2008 (6 photos)

Second day or scuba.  It was pretty awesome.  I saw a baracuda, and a puffer fish (a really freakin big one) and a lot of smaller fshes and a crab.  It was neat.  I really like wall diving--I love heights and its this intense sensation ...

The Bates Motel.. Belize Style
Oct 29, 2009 (3 photos)

... literally seen them everywhere we go (San Pedro, Tikal, Caye Caulker), and here they were in this random restaurant in Placencia. Crazy. They had just finished what sounded like an incredible 3-day sailing trip from Caye Caulker, but which was way out of ...

Belize - Placencia
Feb 20, 2008 (12 photos)

... !), cable tv, and a great restuarant outside on the beach made this a brilliant place to spend the next two nights. Placencia turned out to be even more sleepy than Caye Calker and also lacked the facilities and young vibrant atmosphere. Although the ...

Tikal and then banana wigs in Livingston
Oct 25, 2007 (15 photos)

... we only had a short dip, but long enough to tarnish our silver jewelery with the sulfur. Soon we were at Livingston. Like Belize, it has a large population of black people. Once again we saw lots of dreads and the latest fashion - a banana bunch wig. I ...

Belize - Snorkeling with Sting Rays
Apr 11, 2007 (6 photos)

... . It is surrounded by sea grass which isn't very nice to swim in, so we decided to take a bus ride down to Placencia for a bit of beach life before hitting Guatemala.  It was so hot when we arrived, that when we dropped our bags, we ...

The Jaguar Reef Lodge
Nov 29, 2005 (3 photos)

We began our travels on the main land in Southern Belize near Hopkins village along the coast.

Belize
Oct 1, 2007

Day: 69 Location: Placencia, Belize I am lying in a hammock on the balcony of our sea front condo, my body tired yet my mind euphoric after diving the Great Blue Hole.  The palm trees rustle in the warm breeze blowing in off the clear turquoise ...

learning to relax with the garifunas...
Feb 22, 2007 (3 photos)

Hello!  Well!  There have been many more adventures since I last wrote!  We are in Placencia Villiage in Belize currently, just about to head out by ferry to Honduras (the Bay isalnds to be exact) which we are guessing wil take the wholeday ...

South by local 'chicken' bus to Placencia!
Aug 4, 2008 (24 photos)

... Spray, this place had no ants and clean smelling water, we were all in heaven!    First impressions of Placencia were pretty cool, it consisted of quite large and colourful wooden houses in good condition with tiny small lanes running between ...

Relaxing in Placencia
Jul 25, 2008 (15 photos)

The journey from Flores to Placencia via Belize City took approximately 12 hours in total. The last hour was by far the most difficult, as the old American school bus rattled over what can only be described as one of the most potholed, even roads we have ...

What can I say!?!
Sep 27, 2006 (5 photos)

Well, I had enough solitude. It was time for action. Course? Well, I was supposed to be heading down the coast of Belize and make my way back to Guatemala City. Action? Hopped on a plane and went back to San Pedro. What can I say!?!

A boat, a bus and the Hokey Pokey Taxi
Jan 27, 2007

... attempts to go drag racing in a golf cart I decided to move on.  I jumped on the boat back to Belize City followed by the chicken bus to Placencia.  I didn't realise it at the time but the bus was running late.  I should have guessed this ...

Belize - The Central American Oasis
Jan 3, 2005 (4 photos)

Ok, here's the Belize story... we went all over: Belize City, Belmopan, even the border with Guatemala on the other side of Belize to see the ruins of Xunantunich! We went snorkelling from Laughing Bird Caye, which is a protected park, we went to the ...