Country Info
- Belmopan
- Capital
- Belize Dollar (BZD)
- Currency
- 256,062
- Population
- BZ
- Country Code
Belize Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Belize
Back to Caye Caulker & Diving in the Blue Hole
Friday I traveled back to Caye Caulker for the last 4 days of the trip. At some point it occurred to me that I’ll be spending the next several months camping in Africa -- so I quite consciously decided that I would spend the last days like a ...
Viva Carnaval!
... being spread around on anyone standing still. This time we willingly submitted to the face painting as everyone was getting into the act. So went our first night in Belize. I'm not sure the rest of our trip will be able to live up to the first 4 ...
Caye Caulker
Caye caulker We left Tulum early in the morning on sat via bus to chetumel , a border town to belieze. As we got there early we decided to get the boat taxi to Caye Caulker as it would work out alot quicker for us. The harbour and boat ride were ...
Belize - Hopkins and San Ignacio
... tubing and caving action. The weather was cool, but no rain meant all was good to go. After spotting a Toucan ( national bird of belize and our first sighting) thanks to Feliz, we headed off with our tubes and head torches. Feliz has been a tour guide at ...
Cave tubing - Belize that it was a blast!
... (advantage of nonCarnival -their groups 30 to 40 people). Our driver was Alberto and Roberto was our guide..both natives of Belize. Roberto was very knowledgeable and talked the entire 75 minute ride. He was so native at times he was hard to understand, ...
Medicine Trail and Iguana Sanctuary
Walked around the medicine trail in the morning then checked out the Iguanas at the sanctuary located at the San Ignacio ...
Unbelizeable
... dominated the majority of Latin America after it´s discovery and proceeded to create hell for the indigenous people. British Pirates stumbled across Belize and had a bit of a tiff with the Spanish as they wanted a piece of the pie too. As there were no ...
San Ignacio, Caves & Mayan Ruins
... pretty exciting, but it was definitely a day with a bit more restfulness. Sunday - Caracol ruins -- the largest Mayan ruins in Belize, right on the border with Guatemala. The tour started in the Rio Frio cave, which is mostly a giant cavern with ...
BELIZE: Belize City>Caye Caulker>San Ignacio
... Am. So, I bought myself a lovely 17 hour bus ticket to the South Eastern Mexican border town of Chetumal, fronting BELIZE... So, no Guatemala then............. Well, not yet anyhoo. I had already "overstayed" my alloted time in Mexico due to immense fun ...
Caye Caulker and sailing south to Placencia
... fish looked good too, Languages People are laid back here. Belize time is a half hour later than scheduled. I had read that Belize was popular because English is the official language. That isn't quite true. While most people speak English, a lot of ...
Beautiful Belize
... were happy when it was our turn to get off. They tell you 3 hours, it was more like 4.5. Immigration went OK, except for Belize charging us some ridiculous amount to leave the country... Which no-one else except Si, Me and another westerner had to pay. ...
Ih noh mata
... gibt es Kartoffeln, Reis und Bohnen oder Kohlsalat. Danach muss man natuerlich die verschiedenen Fruchtsaefte und Cocktails testen. Belize mag nicht gerade das billigste Reiseziel in Zentralamerika sein, aber zum Tauchen und Entspannen war es fuer uns ...
Belize
Spent a glorious week here in Belize... aqua blue sea, big black mamas and papas, beautiful place, really friendly. We were gutted that we had to ...
Ruins, Jungle and Bones in Caves
... I learnt a few interesting facts most of which went through one ear and out the other. Fact one. Lucky I wasnt in Belize 2 weeks earlier since a huricane had passed through. Probably explains the bad weather in Guatemala for the last couple of weeks. ...
Belize, Brad, Gellato!!! Caving, Hiking and Scuba
Hey all!!! Things are going really well here in the world of traveling... Greg and I arrived into Belize at Punta Gorda (where we are leaving from today) on April 9th... so we've been here about a week and a half.....It was a quick trip but we did a ...
Time to experience the Jungle
The Belizian version of a chicken bus pulled into Maya beach bang on time and we piled in and bumped and rocked our way down the gravelly, potholed road to Belmopan where we would change buses to get to San Ignacio. Once we hit the Hummingbird highway ...
Drinking from fresh coconuts in tropical paradise
... heavy Caribbean accent. After a quick immigration check consisting of the officer simply asking me if I had any illegal substances, we walked into Belize. Punta Gorda is a small, sleepy town, but it was good for a 1 hour lunch break. A few of us went to ...
An Update
... Belizean politics and it was nice to hear some positive reactions. We saw many cars, trucks and buses coming into Belize City from the countryside filled with jubilant campesinos ready to celebrate. He also pointed out the government vehicles speeding ...
La Isla Bonita (just couldn't resist)
... the drive up that we went straight to the ocean. The beach wasnt anything special, but its the first one I'd seen seen I'd gotten to Belize so it was great. Finally, for the first time since I've been here, I can actually say I like Belize - or at ...
Caye Caulker Day 6
Up at 5am, didn't have any problems waking up. Bit excited hah. Got to Frenchies Diving first and waited for people to arrive while I had some raisen bread and butter. Watched the sun rise over the Carribean. Then it was a quiet 2 hours boat ride to the ...
You Better Belize It!
... busses on other Central American trips and so was already considered a CB-pro). A week earlier, the main bus company in Belize had gone bankrupt and stopped running all of their routes. So, due to the condensed bus schedules and numerous people still ...
THE MAYANS.......GUATEMALA AND BELIZE
... on to Belize City in search of a supermarket. We never found one, and we were kind of disappointed, and yet pleased that Belize City was effectively a shanty town, having been stripped of the honour of being capital (It’s now Belmopan) and therefore ...
Belize
... and then down the country further to a place called Placencia. Nice little place with a good beach and a huge mangrove lagoon. Belize city seemed a little rough, there were security guards on the end of our street and an advised curfew of 10pm. We ...
Arrived in San Ignacio
Arrived in San Ignacio and hopefully going on a tour of the Mountain Pine Ridge Reserve ...
The Best Experience with the Coffee Process
""LA RECUCA" - Recorrido de la Cultural Cafetera" Amazing place to learn everything about Colombian Coffee. From the outfeets, growing the plants, collect the coffee, process step by step to drink and aromatic cup of Colombian Coffee. mmmmmm ...
Placencia
... , eigentlich war es klar. Nach einer ganztaegigen Reise sind wir dann in Placencia, eine Halbinsel im suedlichen Belize, angekommen. Wunderschoen! Ein total verlassenes kleines Plaetzchen, weisser Sandstrand, farbige Haeuschen auf Steltzen, total ...
Would you like a mint?
... City. We are signed up for a cave tubing tour. The tour company takes us to the caves (its a long drive). Enroute we see most of Belize city. Once we get to the caves we have to pick up our tubes and then trek for an hour thru the rain to start our tour. ...
Few days in the sun on the Carribean coast
Decided to make our way straight to the beach in Palencia, a small Caye on the Caribbean sea. Bumped into another Man Utd fan on the boat over from Guatemala, Paul, who turned out to be a good crack who introduced himself straightaway and told us ...
Castaway
... the day we came across a sailboat tour provider which was offering a three day two night sailing trip which ends up in Placencia, Belize, which is on the mainland and was our nes\xt planned stop on the trip. We jumped at the opportunity to sail to our ...