Country Info
- Belmopan
- Capital
- Belize Dollar (BZD)
- Currency
- 256,062
- Population
- BZ
- Country Code
Belize Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Belize
Locals belikin beer
... a local bbq shack and went out to a bar which had live Garifuna (a race of people who live in Livingston, the south of Belize and the Honduran bay islands) drumming. The music was good but unfortunately a local drunk guy knocked drinks over us and, ...
Punta Gorda
... be like. So, we made reservations for one night at a place that the book said might just be the quirkiest place in Belize. That's always a good attractor for me. I like quirky! Anyway, we were pleasantly surprised with Punta Gorda. We were afraid it ...
Zip-i-dee-doo-da Zip-i-dee-day
Hey all, Today we went to Altun Ha, which is the most popular Mayan Temple of the five sites around the Carribbean. We found out that ruins are replicas but we were at the originals that were built starting about 3600 years ago. Pastor Jim ...
Blue Hole National Park
This morning we decided we could travel on a bit so we have driven through Belmopan, the capital and carried on to the Blue Hole National Park. Today we have parked at the visitor centre and taken a stroll to St Herman's Cave. The cave is about a mile ...
Voyage au centre de la terre
Jungle et caves mayas au fin fond du Belize avec un excellent guide qui nous a montre comment survivre dans la jungle... Des moments mystiques a raconter au coin du feu pendant les longues soirées d ...
San Ignacio, Belize
As difficult as it was to leave the beautiful and peaceful Caye Caulker, I arrived in San Ignacio (not really planned but hey, am I planning anything really?) pretty happy with what I was seeing (thanks to all who recommended it to me): a nice little ...
Vacation, All I Ever Wanted...
... tags when we caught them. I got to see some cool stuff: Caribbean reef sharks and nurse sharks, which are common enough in Belize (though declining in numbers rapidly), but also tiger sharks, which are much rarer and Cuban night sharks, of which we had ...
TIKAL
... in the world those little bastards. Tikal was awesome. I repeat, awesome. Except there were a crapload of mosquitoes. We're in Belize now. We know that because people speak English and everything costs five times as much as it did this morning. On that ...
Belize Zoo-Tapirs,Warthogs, Monos & a Talking Bird
... , a rattlesnake, boa constrictor, spider monkeys, king vultures, tapirs (horse and rhino-like and the national animal of Belize), turtles, hawk eagles, tiger cats (ocelots), warthogs, a puma (cougar), black howler monkeys, anteater, jabiru stork, happy ...
Beach Stud
Placencia is a beautiful Caribean Island. We were fortunate enough to stay in these great little Cabanas about 20 feet from the water. Our plan was to grab a boat from here to Honduras, but we found out that the boat broke and we'd have to go back up ...
Caye Caulker and diving the Blue Hole
... it was lovely. We spent much of our time in Caye Caulker partaking in the same activity we had indulged in throughout Belize...sunbathing! Whilst it didn´t have the sandy beaches of Placencia or Tobacco Caye, we still enjoyed ourselves. After a couple ...
Belize City
Left Dangriga to return back to Cucumber Beach by Belize City. This time we thought we would go by way of the coastal highway, it is about 40 miles shorter but is a dirt road all the way. As it turned out it is quite a good road, although it had a lot of ...
A road Trip south
Away from the relaxed atmosphere of the Cayes it was back on the speedboat to Belize city and onto the bus heading south for Punta Gorda (PG). I really wasnt arsed travelling either as had picked up a poxy cold after diving but anyway had to move on. It ...
Manatee Tour from Chocolate
... for the manatees and knows more about them than most. He has spent most of his life trying to save the manatees here in Belize. He is very passionate about the manatees and had little tricks to find them and get them to come up close so we could get good ...
Hopkins
... have taken a picture of her but alas she was a little camera shy (you never know when the cops are coming for you!) I spent two days on the beach and then decided I wanted to head to Caye Caulker. The place every tourist talks about. The Cancun of ...
Coffee country
After Popayan our plan was to head to Cali and then west towards the coast and a little town called San Ciprano. Here the locals invented some type of small motorbike-driven train carraiges to drive on the tracks to nearby towns and they play ...
Belmopan
This morning we set off initially to Belmopan, the capital of Belize. We wanted to go to two embassies to get some tourist info and check on Visa requirements. As it was it took us three hours driving round to find the places, there are no road maps of ...
Baboon Sanctuary
... us up. They tend to start howling about 5. 30 am. This morning we just had a slow start and walked down to the Belize river, although we did not see anything apart from birds. From here we went back into the Baboon sanctuary and spent a while watching ...
BELIZE
Hello to everyone, Caye Caulker is such a cool place. It´s like being in little Jamaica. So different from Mexico! Cleaner frendlier and unfortunately more expensive too. Internet prices are ridicolous hence I will keep this short. I will post some ...
Oops....
... ago when I was a fresh faced 18 year old wandering the mountains in Honduras. What's more, is that I hadn't realy enjoyed my Belize experience as much as I was hoping to - the weather constantly seemed to conspire against me (more on that later), and I ...
Mesosorry
... were all fairly well behaved though. Its weird actually having something important to celebrate. Next day we saw my mom and dad off to belize city, then wallowed around in our own self pity for the rest of the day. New years day we left for Corozol in ...
Barrier Reef
... Caulker. Quiet, hammocks, becnh on the private dock. Hanging out with Mattiew(france), Lara(Montana), Yvonne(Dutch). Back to Belize City AM and then South to the Dangeerie? next city along coast. Highlky recommended part of trip. Even snorkellers ...
More Ruins!
First we took a bus to Xanunantanich. It had some ruins there so we decided to look at them. The bus dropped us of at a river. There was this guy who turns the wheel to make the boat go. It's only about 1min to get ...
Actun Tunchil Muknal (ATM) cave or All That Money
... doubt at the back of my mind After receiving some banana bread and beer for my birthday, i retired to bed. I had spent 2 weeks in Belize and really enjoyed my time here. I had met a lot of good people and remet people from my time in Antigua. Tomorrow ...
Niu Countri!! - Belize
... did bring some higher level of life with it! There is only one bad thing in Placencia...internet is highly expensive ($8 Belize dolars per hour - $4 US). So...there will be no more entries until we start moving again. We will update entries from ...
La Milpa
Today we left the camp and drove to the N.W. of the country through the main Mennonite settlement. These are another strong religious sect that originated in Germany; they still speak an old dialect of German. The men must always wear hats, even in bed, ...
Ladyville, Lamanai,
Landed Hot but rainy, Partook in quite alot of Belikin beer. Hotel not very nice but john the american owner is great giving us tips on where to go and giving us free rides. Went to Lamanai ruins. Pretty cool trip. Check out the ...
The ride to San Ignacio
... so we decided to continue on to the bus station. Once there, It was a bit of a scary place, and all of a sudden his taxi fare seemed like a very good deal. So we ate some lunch at a place in Old Belize and continued on for the 90 minute drive to ...
Trekking to Trek Stop
We took a leisurely day hanging out in our room and walking the grounds here at Clarrisa's this morning. We ate breakfast up at the restaurant and had a visit by a Toucan with a broken beak. I got some good pictures of it but, most of the pictures are on ...