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- Belmopan
- Capital
- Belize Dollar (BZD)
- Currency
- 256,062
- Population
- BZ
- Country Code
San Ignacio Slideshow
San Ignacio
Travel Blogs from San Ignacio, Belize
Actun Tunichil Muknal Caving
San Ignacio is the adventure location in Belize with the Actun Tunichil Muknal (ATM) caves being one of the many attractions. I had never done any caving before but the tour sounded right up my street. They described it to me as ...
Spelunking
Jan 9th - Today we went spelunking in the Actun Tunichil Muknal caves near San Ignacio. It was really a good day, myself Colm and Beck even got to have a kickabout with a footy when we stopped on the way there. A 45 minute trek ...
Shoot out in ole San Ignacio
What a welcome! I arrive back to see my Belizean family who I had lived with for 3 months and enter a scene from a spagetti ...
San Ignacio, Belize
We stayed in San Ignacio for about 4 days. We met a belizean on our bus ride over that pretty much told us all about belize. He was an agricultural student at the university. We learned about the mayans, medicinal plants, and rastamen. It was a small ...
Ghosts of Ancient Maya Share Timeless Caves
... short), an incredible adventure awaited me, deep within a cave hidden away in the Belizean tropical rain forest (one hours drive from San Ignacio). I had been caving before but nothing l don't think will ever be able to match up to the caving experience ...
Bus to Belize
... of the market, but despite the new station, the bus still went through the market! What a scene! San Ignacio is a cool small town with a nice relaxed atmosphere. There is also a center for rain forest medicinals and ...
Halloween and moving into my new house
... I was living in Belmopan, but unfortunately my living and working situation there was not good. I pushed to move to San Ignacio (referred to as Cayo in Belize) since my job brought me there two days a week. The only work difference would be that I would ...
Random Musings
... other PCV's live in. The idea, simple enough, is to put us all in a few centralized places. Fortunately, our shelter is in San Ignacio (not that we don't like Belmopan, but there's no Cayo Twist soy ice cream there). The drill basically consisted of ...
More of life...
... ? In addition to our experiences with marine life, the last few months have brought some unusual sightings involving animals in and around Belize City. *An egret and a wish-willy (big iguana) sharing the bugs in an open drain after a storm. *A horse ...
Horse Riding in Belize
... our way to the 7:00 am ferry for the mainland and the Belize City bus terminal to jump on the westbound “express” for San Ignacio. During our stop at the terminal a rain storm hit for about 1/2 hour. As you can see from the bus ...
San Ignacio
Arrived on Labour Day, most places shut. Cahul Pech - compact and bijou Mayan ruins up on the hill overlooking San Ignacio (aka Cayo) and Santa Elena. A little museum next to the ruins provided the most information on Mayans than any site did in ...
The fantasticness of Belize
... to be refrigerated . . . ever. 3. Dominic is moving in with me! Yay! He was transferred from Belize City to San Ignacio and we will live together for a few months so we can both save money. Unfortunately Belizeans cannot understand why ...
Experts in Crossing borders
... der guatemaltekischen Seite abzureisen. (Auto und wir), Und nach 5 Minuten bekamen wir auch unser Auto desinfiziert (10 Belize Dollars) und für den Einwanderungsstempel für Belize hat es weitere 10 Minuten gedauert. (Wir mußten diesmal gar ...
Tikal
... canopy. We then spent the morning exploring the ruins which were fantastic. In tikal you're actually allowed to freely climb and explore the site. We're now across the border in Belize. We'll be here for 3 days on our way to ...
Glovers Reef and San Ignacio
... the main country. We're now staying at this cool jungle lodge kind of place called Parrot Nest lodge in Bullet Tree, right outside San Ignacio. It's very cool, because I am getting to sleep in a tree house! We went and saw a cool cave with ...
A Day of Adventures
... Dave and they never made a firm contact. Dave can receive a lot of stations, but they don't seem to hear his transmissions. He's thinking about writing an article about what not to do when you take a trip to Belize for one of the ham radio magazines. ...
Dolphins and caves in Belize
... and around close to the boat and enchanted us all. A great end to a great day. Our next stop in Belize was an ecolodge near San Ignacio. Groups often go tubing down the river,but it was too high, so we went for a walk along it instead. We ...
Hitting the Belize Jungle in Style
... America. Im just not getting the same buzz as I have in other parts of the world... at least English was widely spoken in Belize, and Ive seen that it has a lot to offer. Tomorrow should be a good day with Tikal... one of the greatest sights in ...
And onto Belize...
... . Woke up to no water. I was mad. We left in a hurry. Eventually made it to the Belizean border and into a town called San Ignacio where we met a very nice man from Czech Republic. What a culture shock Belize is. Everything is 3 times the price, they ...
You'll never Belize it!
... ourselves a couple of weeks scenic diversion in Costa Rica for Christmas and New Year. Summary - Uvita, Costa Rica to San Ignacio, Belize: Costa ...
Thanksgiving and being thankful
... fluffy towels, let along good smelling. 3. Air Conditioning. It was cold. My feet were cold. What an odd sensation in Belize. 4. Carpet. a little piece of heaven. Softness under your toes and the soles of your feet is a sensation I have not ...
You'd better Belize it..! (sorry)
... before the Guatemalan border - San Ignacio. Not a problem, we were intending to come here eventually anyway. By Belizian standards San Ignacio (Cayo) is a large town, which means it's about the size of Thaxted with more reggae music and less morris ...
the good and the bad
... jobs, our thoughts on Belize. It was really nice. Unfortunately I couldn't watch it when it aired because I was returning from Belize City from a conference, but im going to get it on DVD. A fellow Peace Corps volunteers and good friend of mine, ...
More Mayan Ruins in the jungle of Belize!
... like this part of Belize was slightly more developed than previous. After a long day of 7 hours travelling we reached our destination. San Ignacio was a small town based amongst wooded hills lined by the Maca River and all in all was quite cool. We donned ...
It´s English time again in Belize
... rest of the journey into Belize was going to be in a crowded minivan that smelled of wet dog!! Luckily our destination, San Ignacio, was only a few miles on from the border, and we escaped the van along with four others. The rest heading all ...
Jungle adventures
... your feet against anything you just lower yourself down in mid-air... fun! After all that excitement we headed back to San Ignacio for a much-anticipated shower, laundry and tick removal. Next day our adventure was cave tubing - where you float down ...
The life I lead . . .
So on Wednesday I began my job at BFLA, Belize Famlily Life Association, which for the two days I was there consisted of making fliers and doing "personal things" on the computer. And by "personal things" i really mean just writing letters to people and ...
Hanging out in San Ignacio
... the volunteer's houses. I got to meet lots of volunteers from the US as well as Germany and England. Belize seems to be popular place for volunteerism. San Ignacio is small enough too that today when I'm walking around I will certainly run in to some ...