Country Info
- Belmopan
- Capital
- Belize Dollar (BZD)
- Currency
- 256,062
- Population
- BZ
- Country Code
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Belize
Travel Blogs from Belize
The narrowest street in the world
This is a top pick! ... kept looking. Went to buy some cigarrettes in the local chinese grocery store. (all the stores seem to be owned by chinese in Belize!). Then checked out a few more places to eat, everywhere was shut or dead! So ended up back at Barefoot, where we had had ...
So, um, that was a BB gun right?
This is a top pick! I really lazed around not really doing too much other than sitting on the veranda watching the football in the field across the way and the sea just beyond that. I would have seen much more except there was a huge cement and neon hotel casino which now ...
Swimming with sharks
Caye Caulker was a peaceful little island where laying in a hammock can occupy entire days! I spent quite a few hours just laying about in front of my hostel, which, happily, was on the beach. When I was not in a hammock I was in the water, swimming in ...
The Daily
The Caye Walking, strolling really, he was in awe and in deep smiling thought. Barefooted on the sandy beach-like streets. Shirtless, clutching his trusty snorkel kit and could you believe, even with a half decent tan. It was not too long after sunset ...
Xunantunich...the border with Guatemala
I think I'm starting to get used to the stares from the locals...I just keep smiling realize that I'm definitely a minority here...it must be hard for people such as myself to come here and have so much money and they have so little...I'd probably stare ...
Sharks never rest....
God kveld Norge! Forrige oppdatering sluttet med at jeg og en Isaraelsk jente ved navn Hila ankom Caye Caulker utenfor Belize city. Stedet er verdensberoemt for sine dykkmuligheter og korallrev. Samme kveld oppsoekte vi et dykkefirma og meldte oss paa en ...
The wrong trousers
... good 'ole faithful underarms will find the moisture to perspire. You can imagine what I am like in a humid/hot climate like Belize and I was more that pleased to get the chance to wash my clothes this morning under the supervision of Wolfgang's, my ...
To Belize!
... African slaves and Caribbean Indians on the island of St. Vincent. They eventually established communities in Honduras, Nicaragua and Belize. Sniper´s father has been mayor of Punto Gorda and a politician in the Belizian government. We spent some time ...
From Mexico to Belize
... national language is English Taxi border to Corozal USD$ 15.00 1 USD dollar = 2 BZD dollar 6 Mex pesos = 1 BZD dollar Time Belize 1 hour earlier than Mexico Read another book: The girl with the dragon Tattoo - Stieg Larsson ISBN: 978-0-307-45454-6 ...
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 ...
Traveling to Belize
... which meant hardly any sleep for Mike, in spite of Steve and Sue taking their turns on watch. We arrived in San Pedro Town, Belize, at 10 a.m.April 21st. No one wasted any time jumping into the gorgeous water. Wow! We checked in around ...
Ambergris Caye
... Then yesterday we left finca tatin, went to livingston, from livingston to puerto 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. ...
Not so Latin America
(4520 miles) nadya: Well, we´ve finally left mexico - after 6 wonderful weeks! Crossing into Belize was like landing on another planet. Belize is COMPLETELY different to Mexico, in every way... much more of an afro-caribbean vibe than latino, ...
Conclusions
I left Utila at 7:00 in the morning and arrived at my apartment at 11:00 that night. It was a long day of flying and for the next several days, I experienced uncomfortable culture shock. It was a great trip. If I could do it again, sure there are parts I ...
You Better Belize It
... around 80,000. This is an estimate I couldn´t be bothered doing a head count. It was a Saturday night when I arrived in Belize city. I met a Swede and a German (named Tam and Rab respectively) in the hostel and we went out clubbing that evening. It ...
And on to Belize
Country #2 - BELIZE Capital - Belmopan Population - 256,000 Currency - Belize Dollar ...
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. ...
Diving at Gallows Point
... we had a very good lunch of jerk chicken, rice, slaw, and orange. I was again amazed by how good the chicken dishes in Belize were. I made a note to try to find a place with fresh chicken back home if I can. Most of the scraps (including ...
Mayans and Mosquitos....
... suffer from minimum 10 times as many bites.) Our driver Gustavo was so kind to drive us to the hospital of Belize City, to get Jens 3rd Rabies vaccination, but the vaccination nurse had left 15 minutes before we arrived. Grrrrr.... Gustavo dropped ...
Tornado!
... over land but never touched down. It was beautiful to watch. I've lived in the midwest all my life but had to come to Belize to see a tornado. Today was the last day of this frist phase of training, tomorrow we'll be going to Belize City and then ...
Green Hills Butterfly Farm
... bread, and Cokes. I had a Coke and Erinn had a Sprite. Selmo took the remaining Orange Fanta. The Cokes in Belize taste much better than we have here. They all seem to be bottled in heavy glass bottles and they're made with sugar ...
Big update
... been whisked off to some strange location by a gang of local terrorists... the truth is even stranger! I'm now in Belize. I've been sitting here trying to figure out how to type about everything thats gone on since we left San Cristobal ...
Chillin' on the Island mon
Yesterday we had a whirlwind tour of Belize yesterday, including tubing through caves, zip lining through the rain forest and a fantastic tour of the Belize Zoo. After holding the Boa constrictor around our necks we decided to support the Zoo and be ...
Meeting the soccer manager of Belize
... crew came in.. They did an interview with an older man, after asking around it seemed to be the national soccer manager from the Belize team (aka the Van Marwijk of Belize) interviewed by Honduras Channel 10 (see http://www.diez.hn). His name José de la ...
Scuba!
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 ...
Plancencia ...finalmente
Alright so we finally arrived at our destination...tired and cranky and bums numb from the road...but on the whole excited! The power was out when we arrived...so finding our hotel was doubly fun...time to go get some grub and hit the sack... Cheers ...