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San Pedro Slideshow
San Pedro
Travel Blogs from San Pedro, Belize
We Shall Return
... of positive comments about the blog. I'm going to work on getting the pictures posted this weekend, but the planning of Frank's 40th birthday party tomorrow is keeping me busy too! Thanks again to all the folks we met in San Pedro. We'll be in ...
This is where I long to be
La isla Bonita has been San Pedro's alterego since Madonna wrote her song about this island at the north end of the Belizean reef and it's a marketeers dream. The phrase is on town maps, launderettes, refuse lorries,.. everywhere. Is it a ...
Belizean Dreams
... Tackle Box Lounge on a pier near our hotel. We met a local guy who sold us a PUP party shirt that says "I Believe in Belize." Great souvenir. Tomorrow morning, we'll be up at 6 am for the water taxi to Belize City and our Zipline and CaveTubing ...
Caye Caulker
We again met Judy this morning and went over to the beach house. Gaby the contractor met us and answered some questions about remodeling. He thinks everything would cost less than $15,000 USD. Not too bad. We talked to the woman who lives next door about ...
Done traveling for a few days.
... off the boat we took a 3 hour bus straight to Belize City where we spent last night. Today we woke up and took a boat here, to San Pedro on the Ambergris Caye. We are going to spend the next few days here. We may do a Blue Hole dive, depending on ...
Hol Chan, Shark Ray Alley, & Caye Caulker
... happened upon the actual tourist agency on my way into town and was able to book it with a lady there. So tomorrow I'm going manatee watching and then Saturday morning I'm leaving San Pedro forever and going to Caye Caulker, which I love. I can't ...
Barracuda!
... was able to talk to a diving centre. I found a place that I can do my entire PADI open water dive course (4 days) for $650 Belize (which is $325 USD, an amazing price!) AND that includes setting me up with a hotel room for free for 3 nights. That's ...
Viva Carnaval!
... was going on. That is until we saw the drag queens dancing in the street - literally stopping traffic. Another San Pedro Carnaval tradition! They were following a red pickup truck with a keyboardist playing music. The funniest thing ...
An Update
... as we finished up and went to lunch at Amigos. We decided to pass on the offer of going to the Belize Zoo. We were pretty wiped and just wanted to go "home." After an even longer (it seemed) water taxi ride back to San Pedro, we're back at the ...
La Isla Bonita (just couldn't resist)
... water taxis all left nearly as soon as I got there. I met a really nice couple my age from the states on the boat to San Pedro. Unfortunately for me, they are meeting their friends here and staying in a really nice condo for the week in contrast to me, ...
What a corker!
... the kitchen. Having always had a fascination with airplanes and flying I have basically admitted to myself that I will be traveling around Belize by air: 1 – Because I like to see the reef and islands from the air and 2 – I’m just damn ...
Still Wishing It Would Stop Raining
... guys from our hostel. I don't understand why everyone wants to go there - the island itself and town on it are much smaller than San Pedro, so there's even less to do there and nothing to do when it's raining. And if it's raining here it's raining there, ...
Cheeseburgers in Paradise
Today we again met with Judy to look at additional properties. Nothing much. We wound up right back at the beach house to give it another look. We're really excited about it. Just gotta make everything work. Had cheeseburgers in paradise for lunch at ...
Floyd and Other Stories
... in touch with the others in the group. It would have been fun to continue on the trip to other spots in Belize, but we wanted to concentrate on San Pedro anyway. Floyd On Sunday we decided we should have a beach day. We had spent time in the sun on ...
Fishing and snorkeling the Cayes
So yesterday we had a real chill day. We explored the town, did some scuba research, had some nice hammock time and had our go at fishing off of the dock. It was a pretty relaxing day of not doing too much, I think its what we all needed on ...
Ambergris Caye
... stop jaunt through Mexico, Belize definitely has more of a relaxed Caribbean feel to it - the main method of transportation in San Pedro is the humble golf buggy (it's amazing how inventive Belizeans can be when it comes to pimping golf buggies) Tuesday, ...
new years american style
new years eve day we went on a big bike ride along the beach of san pedro. the towns quite small but once u go over the toll bridge to the other side of the island it stretches out with miles of beach lined resorts. we stopped and swam where we fancied ...
Adios Mexico , Hello Belize!
... Belize a couple of days ago, everything went pretty smoothly with immigration and the boat ride over from chetumal wasnt too bumpy. Belize so far is completely different to Mexico. For a start everyone speaks English and the where we are now in Ambergris ...
Go slow mon, you're in Belize!
... early wakeup, 4:45am, but by 12pm I was through all of the customs formalities and over my first land border into Belize. What a contrast from Mexico! It just seemed so much poorer than Mexico. Neglected houses, fading billboards, hardly what I ...
Itīs unBelizeable
... in accountancy. We went snorkelling with sharks, stingrays and turtles, which was amazing. At lunch time we stopped on the island of San Pedro, which is the one Madonna is warbling on about in La Isla Bonita. The perfect day was topped off by a perfect ...
Our last lovely day in the Carribean sun.....
Today was awesome.... there was talk of snorkling etc... but once breaky was ordered and the sun started bearing down it was looking more and more like a lazy day on the beach heheheheeh fine with us. A quick bite to eat at a great cafe on the island ...
Go Slow
Go slow. An unofficial motto of the life here on this small island, and I do mean small. There are two main roads and you can traverse the whole town in about 15-20 minutes. It's of course very touristy here, but unlike in Tulum, this place has retained ...
Ambergris Caye
... its splendid isolation and friendly owners. Bill agreed to get up at 6 and take us across the bay in time to catch the 7 am ferry to San Pedro on the island of Ambergris Caye. It was extremely good of him to get up so early. Tom and I didn't make it ...
Great diving and now I'm heading north again.
... nbsp; That's how close they were! We also saw a couple turtles and many fish. After the dives, the boat dropped me off in San Pedro. It looks like a fun town to hang out in. I need to find a room to stay and then check the town ...
Swimming with the Sharks
What an experience we had today! We were picked up at the hotel dock and taken out to the barrier reef "Hol Chan Marine Reserve". We were a bit underwhelmed with the snorkling there (except for the big turtles). It didn't compare to the diversity we saw ...
"Stop walkin so fust mun, your'n Belize!"
Today we didn't do too much in the scheme of things. We pretty much just acquainted ourselves with our temporary home and sussed out some of the diving operations to see what dives we may want to do. In the afternoon we went to Palapas Bar ...
Caribbean style
... these blogs on Thursday or Friday after we do a snorkeling trip on wednesday. We have been chillen on cay caulker of the coast of belize. Many of the people are not that great, they seem to have a sense of entitlement, but the island is pretty cool. It's ...