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Placencia Slideshow
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Placencia
Travel Blogs from Placencia, Belize
The last day with my girl Eloise
This is a top pick! 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 ...
Sleepy Fishing Village...Fishy Sleeping Village
This is a top pick! 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...
This is a top pick! ... 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
This is a top pick! ... 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 ...
I write to you from the purple space monkey ...
This is a top pick! 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 ...
The adventure starts!
This is a top pick! ... 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...
This is a top pick! ... 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 can see the sea! (with poo update)
This is a top pick! It may be a neighbouring country of Guatemala, but Belize is another world. The big bellies and even bigger smiles of the Creoles, Garifunas and any other wanderers who came to Belize is a welcoming sight. Combine this with the fact that the official ...
Bye to Ambergris, hello to Placencia
This is a top pick! ... in 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 ...
The narrowest street in the world
This is a top pick! ... 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
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
... 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 ...
On to Belize!
... bet Jco would agree) and decided that boat-oriented travel days are far far better than bus-oriented travel days. Our trip to Placencia in Belize was perfect for a boat fan, and went like this: 1) Overslept...all of us. This is quite an ...
Pirates of the Cribbean, sort of!
... Placencia about 5pm and by this point I had decided to return to Caye Caulker with the boat. My plan was to stay in Placencia a couple of days before heading north by land by the weather forecast was not great so figured I would be better off somewhere I ...
Placencia
... 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 ...
Arrival
... 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
... 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!
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 ...
Silk Cayes
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 ...
The Bates Motel.. Belize Style
... have 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 ...
Belize - Placencia
... !), 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
... so 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 ...
Belize - Snorkeling with Sting Rays
... . 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
We began our travels on the main land in Southern Belize near Hopkins village along the ...
Belize
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 ...
Back on the beach , boy what a beach
... great countryside most of the way, for such a small country this place has a lot of really wild jungle. First impressions of Placencia, is good, really long beach and quite a few small bars / restaurants along the town. This place boasts the narrowest ...
Hot and Humid
Started heading south from Cay Caulker to St. George's Cay. Although a beautiful island, St. George's was very shallow so we anchored quite a ways off shore. Bushed from keeping a constant watch on water depth as well as trying to see through ...
More Than a Woman Part II
... this right here in Belize! So I traded French boobies and offers of ganja delight for a Tropic Air flight to Belize Municipal and then connecting service to Placencia via a 5 minute stop in Dangriga on the way. Wow, wow, wow is all I can ...
cam
6 sticky hours on the bus, the huge thunderstorm not having cleared the humidity one bit - judging by the low water level & clarity of rivers, I guess it had been pretty isolated. Belmopan, where I changed buses, was another mad scramble to ...
learning to relax with the garifunas...
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 ...