San Ignacio
Travel Blogs from San Ignacio, Belize
Exploring ruins and the jungle
San Ignacio offered the first hot shower of the trip and is a world apart from Belize city. Today I walked to the nearby ruins of Cahal Pech. Afterwards, I jumped on a chicken bus headed west and got out at a ferry that crosses the river where a road ...
Ungrateful bitch
... , motorbike insurance. Ahhh, the office was air conditioned. This guy could take as long as he liked. In Belize the insurance cover for one week cost us $12 for each bike. Twenty minutes from the border we stopped into a hotel called Rosa in San ...
Still in SI...
Today I had my first international haircut and the guy only knows one way to do it. No scissors, just electric shears. So now I look like a US Marine but it´s great in this tropical heat. The sun is relentless here and the days are really hot. In the ...
you better belize it!
... that we had no problem walking through into Belize. Changed some money into Belize dollars and off we were to San Ignacio, aka Cayo. I am digging Belize already and that is simply because I can talk to people here, English is the spoken language. Yes I ...
What the hell is a chicken bus?
... 8 year old school girl, but that's not the case for me or anyone else riding this damn bus! Two and half hours later, I was in San Ignacio, a hiking, biking, swimming, outdoorsy pot of gold at the end of the adventure rainbow and a nice safe town. ...
Caracol, Mayan Ruins - Belize
25.03.2010 Breakfast of toast, fruit and coffee is included at the $44AUD per night Hotel Rosa in San Ignacio in Belize, but we had to bolt it down because our tour to Caracol Archaeological Reserve was due to start at 7:30am. Our tour guide Everald, ...
Belize
... impressive by far were the 2 jaguars, one spotted and the other pure black. - The Aktun Tunichil Muknal cave near San Ignacio: this was another budget-blowing day trip that was probably the most exhilarating, Indiana Jones-meets-the Discovery Channel, ...
Belize
... trying to watch a game of football on the set. We whizzed through Belize only stopping at one other place for a couple of nights. San Ignacio, a small town on the mainland where we decided to take a canoeing tour. We pilled onto the back of a truck and ...
Still in training in San Ignacio
... for two weeks. It feels like a month because we are so busy. I am still in training and totally getting accustomed to life in Belize. We have visited a lot of places in Belize in the past few and a half. last week we went to Xunantunich, which is a ...
Not so Latin America
... plans too (the only cheap way to deal with this expensive country). So we abandoned our plans and decided to bed down in San Ignacio for the night - just as well cos it really poured down there...! Since the weather was still not looking up, we decided ...
the wisdom of Nelly
... of Guatemala as a sort of meeting of the minds. To discuss how we can collaborate together to strengthen HIV awareness in both Belize and Guatemala. On Saturday we did outreach work on the border and then in brothels in Melchor. It was an intense ...
la chinita bonita
Its me already again! This is another article I wrote for the toucan times about being asian in Belize. its not serious or anything, just silly. And i posted some pictures on the christmas story posting that go with the christmas story. Much love. ...
San Ignacio
On our way across Belize to Guatemala we stopped at San Ignacio, on the advice of some girls we met during our diving certification. One of the main attractions in the area is Actun Tunichil Muknal, a huge cave in which the remains of Mayan sacrifices and ...
BELIZE IT OR NOT THE AMISH ARE HERE!
... and some powerful spotlights and ventured into Barton Creek Cave. This is the longest subterranean archaeological sites in Belize. It has some amazing stalagmites and stalactites and crystal formations but what we were interested in seeing ...
Inland Belize
After all of that time on the beach, I headed inland to explore some more ruins, and to see a bit of the Belizean countryside. San Ignacio is a small town near the border of Guatemala. The town itself is ok, but the real attractions are the hikes in ...
Border town
Nothing much to report here. I arrived at around 8pm and was directed down a dark alley. Not the best of ideas but it was a short alley so we risked it. The town was dead. And all of the shops and hotels were locked up behind ...
Christmas and New years
... not being with my family for Christmas. After the four days of christmas ridiculousness, some of us travelled to san pedro, the largest tourist island off of belize city to ring in the new year. Some highlights of the four days of happiness Id like to ...
The forecast today is hurricane
... then 20 seconds later threw our bags on another bus for San Ignacio, the nearest large town to the Guatemalan Border. After arriving in San Ignacio, we dropped our bags and looked for a safe hotel to stay the night in. After having no luck ...
Horseback Riding
... traded the "quiet" of having it to ourselves for less heat and Cicadas. If we go back to Crystal Paradise and the San Ignacio area in general, it will be at a different time of year. We checked out of our room in advance and then met ...
Belize, country 3 and the strangest yet
... with 2 women one carrying a new born baby wrapped up in a blanket, so we shared the cab with them all back to san Ignacio, and all for $5 belize = £1.60. San Ignatio is a bit dead on a Sunday , fortunately the south Indian restaurant was open and we had ...
adventures in Chicken bus land
Chicken buses So from belize city we decided to take a chicken bus. If your wondering what the heck a chicken bus is Its a old North american school bus that has been refurbished and is used in central america for a cheap means of transportation. So ...
you better belize it!
belize is wonderful. i think i might live here in the near future. a few days ago i was in caye cauker(sp?) ... i forget how to spell it. it was amazinggggggg. the best part was probably swimming with sharks. i met a bunch of locals and played darts with ...
Night at Crystal Paradise
Jeronie, one of the Tut brothers, picked us up and chatted with us on the drive back to San Ignacio. When we got close, he told us that he knew of a place that made great cheesecake and asked if we'd like any. After receiving the obvious ...
A night in the slums...
... Next morning we visited whats supposedly the biggest market in Belize and didn't find much more that overripe bananas. We left San Ignacio without breakfast. The hired taxi brought us to the border but stopped after 5 minutes drive tonsqueeze another 2 ...
Things I've thought about
... a similar reaction to what is written below. The importance of family: On January 17th my mom and dad safely landed in belize against all odds, the odds being my mother being afraid to fly. I was a little apprehensive for the coming week. Who ...
Goodbye Guatemala, Hello Belize
... Eva´s and play pub trivia run by Travis, ex Californian ex vagabond ex linguist and who now runs the only pirate theatre in San Ignacio. It cost 2 Belizean per person to enter, winner take all. We lovingly named our team Mangoes for Stacey in reference ...
Mit Autoreifen im Höhlenfluss
San Ignacio hat im Prinzip eine kleine Gegend, in der sich die Backpackerszene abspielt. Hauptsächlich besteht diese Gegend aus einer Nebenstraße mit ein paar Kneipen, Hostels und Tour Agencies. Man kann die Touranbieter alle abklappern und nach ...
Don't step on the thousand-year-old pots
... Chagas' disease. This cave system has only been opened up fairly recently and was, we were told, the best day trip on offer from San Ignacio (also known as Cayo), the latest stop on my travels, in western Belize. The deep recesses of the dark caverns, ...


