San Pedro, Belize Travel Blogs

Where M hugs a shark and T is scared (AND admits)
May 29, 2007 (1 photos)

... We go grocery shopping, mainly fluid. We have nothing left. Coke, energy drinks, water and vodka. We bought a bottle up on arrival, Belize vodka and declared it undrinkable. We have to buy an expensive one: 25$. We miss our cheap Mexican Vodka: 5$ and ...

First dives in Belize
May 27, 2007 (3 photos)

We had a lovely meal last night and go to bed afterwards with our book. I wake up, it is light, I look at my diving computer: 09h02: we are too late for our dive. I almost start screaming: 'Tomcat!!!' when I notice: it is 05h02. No more sleep for me! I ...

Welcome to Belize
May 26, 2007 (3 photos)

We have plenty of time in the morning ;-)))) and the owner of our B&B picks us up half an hour before the plane leaves (!). We arrive at the airport. What do you think Captain G and W? Plane for max 10 people. I LOVE small planes. What is this, a ...

The Great Blue Hole: the dive of my life!!!
May 28, 2007 (12 photos)

... on a full boat, on the uncomfortable metal of the seats is a challenge. Dr T is very tired, of course. And the sea is rough. Belize has something cute: the water bags. When I saw them in the shop I thought: what do you do with that? Well, this is what ...

Ambergris Caye
Jan 7, 2009

... barrio in guatemala, puerto barrio to punta gorda in belize, and then flew from punta gorda to belize city, and then belize city here to San Pedro in Ambergris Caye.  It was a long traveling day.  The planes were pretty crazy, very small, and ...

Scuba!
Jan 9, 2009 (4 photos)

Hola from Scuba-ville! That's all we've been doing for the past three days, and its been very cool.  I think the last time I wrote we were on our way to our night dive, which was just incredible.  Incredibly incredible.  We saw octopi ( ...

The Cayes
Nov 22, 2008 (20 photos)

... on Caye Ambergris, where I landed a couple of days ago. Caye Ambergris is one of the most heavily touristed parts of Belize, plus they speak English here, so it doesn't really feel very foreign, but there is great snorkling, wildlife, and the swimming ...

Ambourgis Cay
Sep 7, 2006 (16 photos)

... Tulum, and catch up with Paul later in Belize were foiled by outrageous prices for solo accomodation) to San Pedro, on Ambergois Cay in Belize. A really nice place, and a real island atmosphere. Somehow the others were incessantly offered souviners, scuba, ...

Belize Please.
Aug 30, 2006

... . Belize City was kind of a hole, but it was only for one night. Up the next morning to catch the water taxi to San Pedro on Ambergris (which I'm pretty sure means whale vomit) Caye. Well, it's pretty here, a little touristy, but nice. The Blue Hole ...

Night Dive at Hol Chan
Dec 30, 2005 (5 photos)

... the topography of the ocean landscape for as far as the eye could see. After exploring the blazing hot and dusty streets of San Pedro, I went out on a night dive with Amigos Del Mares to the Hol Chan Park Reserve. It was absolutely incredible! I have ...

Caye Caulker
Aug 16, 2009 (22 photos)

Caye Caulker was fantastic. It's the smaller and less commercial of the two northern cayes.  It has no cars or big hotels and is very reasonably priced. Lesson learnt: This is a great place for snorkeling and diving to see ...

Belize
Dec 7, 2004 (3 photos)

last night i dreamt of san pedro it all seems like yesterday not far away tropical the island breeze all of nature wild and free this is where i long to be la isla bonita.... ladies, gents am in belize, a much underappreciated country on the ...

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

... day, so we didn't get up to much that night. The next morning we went out to Ambergris island and stayed in San Pedro. The high speed water taxi over to the island shook the sleepy cobwebs out of us that morning..   We hit ...

Can't move
Sep 22, 2006 (5 photos)

I'm still here in San Pedro. I don't want to leave. I'm spoiled. Two nights in a row I've had people cook for me. Tonight I'm cooking for them. After they leave, I'm going to a private party at Jaguar's down the street. Tomorrow I was thinking of ...

Welcome to the Island!
Oct 28, 2009

So, first off (mom), our apologies for not blogging for the past week. Our reasons were threefold. 1. We were in Belize, where internet is ridiculously expensive. 2. We weren´t doing anything and thus had pretty much nothing to blog about. 3. Did we forget ...

Island Styling
Dec 2, 2005 (1 photos)

More diving from la Isla Bonita, Ambergris Caye.

San Pedro
Aug 30, 2007

Lunch break

Christmas, New Year's, etc
Jan 1, 2005

I'm writing from San Pedro on Ambergris Caye where many tourists have come to ring in the new year. It's a tough life I lead, all of this time I have to spend on islands and in the ocean. I wouldn't wish it upon anyone ;) Since my last entry, much ...

A sucker for San Pedro
Sep 29, 2006 (5 photos)

My last day in paradise. It's so surreal...this life...my life. Right now, there is no other place in the world that I'd rather be. For those thinking of traveling to Belize, to San Pedro, I say go for it. You won't forget it.

They knew we were tourists.
Jan 2, 2008

... rum for every party, totally unsuited to my mood, well, ever, but particularly then. The food was uniformly good and prompt, though. Thankfully, San Pedro does quiet down at night, so I was able to sleep properly before getting up for another 7 am ferry.

San Pedro... La Isla Bonita
Nov 30, 2006

... to even begin. Wow. So much has happened in the last few days. First, I guess I should say that we are in San Pedro, Belize. Internet is really expensive here, so I may have to finish this entry later. The other day we left Cozumel and decided to ...

Belize - San Pedro & Caye Caulker
Dec 26, 2008 (85 photos)

... over to Caye Caulker to search for accommodation for the next week. We were questioning our decision to come to Belize after our initial impressions of San Pedro but we were so relieved when we stepped off the boat onto the much more chilled out ...

Holidays
Jan 18, 2006 (5 photos)

... York! Though the total "displaced ridership" was about 1% of New York's. For Christmas we all boated out to San Pedro for a relaxing long weekend. Sea-kayaking, shell hunting, and swimming competed with slower pursuits such as mushing sand through ...

Just another Belizian day
Sep 28, 2006

... place even played beach bowling ball. Very cool. I was incredibly relaxed and thoroughly happy with my decision to come back to San Pedro. Later on that evening we went to Jaguar's Temple (Bayo is my all time favorite bartender) and then to Fido's ...

Back to Work
Apr 17, 2006 (8 photos)

... , colorful costumes to match the kaleidoscopic flag spinning, fancy dancing and thumping drums. We also spent a fun weekend in San Pedro, capping off Rob's week of monitoring on Ambergris Caye. A couple of other volunteers happened to be visiting the ...

The Northern Cayes of Belize
Mar 10, 2009 (4 photos)

... ferry terminal where we could take a water taxi to San Pedro on Ambergris Caye therby skipping the hassle of going to Belize City first, then the cayes. San Pedro is a crazy busy little island town. I cant believe none of us got run over by a truck or ...

San Pedro, Belize
Apr 18, 2007

San Pedro, Belize

Over the River and Through the Jungle...
Dec 7, 2005 (5 photos)

... ROB'S UPDATE I took a break from the office in November when the Fisheries Department sent me to the resort town of San Pedro on Ambergris Caye (memorialized by Madonna as La Isla Bonita) to be certified for my PADI SCUBA open water certification. ...

Belize It!
Feb 1, 2006 (5 photos)

San Pedro, Belize...a seroiusly welcome reward after many days of serious driving. If there is a better place to recharge our collective batteries...it is unbeknownst to us. Taking a few moments to relax is a required part of each and every Belizian day, ...

The Cayes
Dec 8, 2006 (18 photos)

There was not much doing amongst the 49,000 inhabitants of Belize City, except for rain. So I headed straight for the beach. San Pedro, the most "happening" place on the cayes (in fact in all of Belize) was still tame but beautiful, sandy and relaxed. ...